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The Mumbai Sea Link is in trouble..

Posted on November 22, 2009 by rodinhood

A week back, when I asked my driver Mr. Yadav Maharaj to drive me at 6 am to the  Mumbai Airport from home, he matter of fact said ‘Babu (Sir) – we will take the usual old route via Mahim… … Continue reading →

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Why does Japan’s Panasonic import tomatoes?

Posted on February 15, 2009 by rodinhood

I chuckled when I recently found out that Japan’s Panasonic has one far flung business division that actually imports canned tomatoes from Italy. Or the fact that Sony operates a restaurant and an advertising agency. It turns out that these are old … Continue reading →

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Why the Chinese buy Internet Media on a ‘time’ basis

Posted on February 14, 2009 by rodinhood

During my experience in China during 2001-2003, I never paid much attention to why the leading websites in the country sold their media on a ‘time’ basis - so essentially Sina, Sohu and Netease would sell their impressions and banners on … Continue reading →

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Ad networks go and going bust :-(

Posted on February 13, 2009 by rodinhood

I was shocked when my colleague told me that Adsmart or Adrevenue – a UK based ad network that Games2win had signed up has gone bust…taking along with it about 500 UK Pounds owned to us. Shucks…. and hell…. how … Continue reading →

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