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31 December 2011

2011 End Edition -1

HAAPPIIEE NEW YEAR 2012 to All.

Sensex down 25% among worst global markets in 2011

Gold heads for 11th annual gain

'Govt to be biggest trigger for market in 2012'

Rupee falls 16% in first annual loss since 2008

Top 20 large cap & mid cap stocks to buy in 2012

young entrepreneurs

Top fund managers on stocks which could be tomorrow’s winners & sectors to watch out for in 2012

10 companies that will gain from rupee's slide and economic slowdown

Stock market ends 2011 with 25% loss; second-worst annual performance

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/features/investors-guide/fastest-growing-small-companies-that-could-be-future-giants/articleshow/10531665.cms

Gold's "death cross" signals more losses coming

2011 report card: Mixed bag, yet eventful year for MFs

Refresh your portfolio: Stock ideas by Tulsian for 2012

22 December 2011

The Protester - Person of the Year 2011 - TIME

Best & Worst Lists from Time Magazine

21 December 2011

ET 500

Economictimes 500

Tomorrow's leaders: a BT article 2011

The business icon

Tomorrow's leaders

The game changers

IDEAS TO CHANGE INDIA

News Corner:

Announcing: The Pluggd.in Forum [Knowledgebase + Community]

Aakash Tablet Sold out, UbiSlate Scheduled for January Launch

Frrole Creates a Social Newspaper out of Twitter Noise

WestBridge launches India “evergreen” fund

5 Indian Startups selected for the 3rd Cycle of Startup Chile

Ten Indians in Forbes '30 under 30' list

The 30 highest paid CEOs in the US

Top 5 touch-and-type phones under Rs 10,000

src: rediff, staruplogic.com, pluggd.in

Top 10 Indian businesswomen of 2011

Top 10 Indian businesswomen of 2011!

Src:Trak.in

28 September 2011

Top 12 Mobile Handset manufacturers of the world. Micromax enters

Global mobile phone shipments for the second quarter of 2011 have reached 361 million, of which 110 million are smartphones. While the feature phone is slowly becoming a dying breed, it is what is keeping Nokia on top of the heap. Nokia has shipped 88.5 million phones in Q2 2011 followed by Samsung’s 74 M phones. The gap between Nokia and Samsung is narrowing done. However the gap between Samsung and LG is very wide. LG has shipped 24.8 million phones. Apple which sells just smartphones (iPhones) has occupied the fourth position with 20.3 million phones.

Apple rules the smartphones

Apple is now the top smartphone vendor followed by Samsung and Nokia. The top 10 positions are occupied by the usual suspects with few manufacturers swapping places. The action or rather upsets are happening outside the top 10 positions. These are the manufacturers which the analytic firms called microvendors. Now these microvendors are threatening the handset makers in the top 10 positions.

Top top global mobile handset manufacturers in Q2 2011 :

Nokia (88.5 M)
Samsung (74M)
LG (24.8)
Apple (20.3M)
ZTE ( 18 M)
RIM
HTC (12.1M)
Motorola (11 M)
Huawei (9 M) :
Sony Ericsson (8 M)
Alacatel
Micromax (4 M)

Micromax enters the big league

Micromax, which is considered as a microvendor, has shipped 4M phones in Q2 2011 and has occupied 12th position. Micromax has surpassed Lenovo (2.8M), Sharp and NEC in the mobile handset shipments. Micromax’s nearest competitor is Sony Ericsson which shipped 8M phones.

Micromax entering the big league and eyeing a spot in the top 10 is a remarkable achievement. Micromax is a India based company which started its operations by selling mobile phones in India. Micromax has entered a very crowded market segment and offered variations in its product category by carefully studying the market. The limelight which Micromax now enjoys can be attributed to innovative products, dual SIM phones, and attractive advertising campaigns

Micromax isn’t content with local play. It is continuing to expand across the world and is following the Think global, act local strategy. For example, given the large coastline of Sri Lanka, Micromax has exclusively targeted fishermen in the island nation and came up with a water proof phone. I’m sure Micromax will have similar strategies in Brazil, Africa and the Middle East.

Micromax which predominantly sells feature phones is making slow progression to smartphones. It has launched 3 Android phones which now make up 15% of Micromax’s sales. Last week, there was a leak about a possible high-end Android phone from Micromax. Though it is a re-branded phone, Micromax A85 comes with a dual-core nVIDIA processor and competes with the likes of Samsung Galaxy S2 and HTC Sensation.

Like I have argued here, Micromax still has to battle with the perception of it being perceived as a value-for-money phone maker. It has to start at sometime. Micromax felt the time is now and why not.

How long before Micromax actually enters the top 10 list?

Note : Alcatel is speculated to be in position 11. The number of phones shipped by Alcatel in Q2 2011 isn’t readily available. The post will be updated with RIM and Alcatel numbers. The data is originated from Strategy Analytics, but it is not in a one single list. The data is gathered through various press releases across the web

Micromax A85 Android phone : First look

Src: A 2 week old article from Gadgetfan.

23 August 2011

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15 August 2011

Name Origin of 50 famous companies

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IMAGES: The 10 most searched NEW cars in India

IMAGES: The 10 most searched NEW cars in India

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BS Reporter in New Delhi

1. Maruti Suzuki Alto K10
Car companies ready to splurge on digital media are reaping rich dividends.
That could be why the second most Google-searched car model among new entrants is Ford Figo, far ahead of Volkswagen Polo, Nissan Micra, Toyota Etios, Maruti SX4 and Hyundai i10-Next Gen to name a few.
Internet search giant Google tabulated the searches by consumers in India from January 2010 to May 2011.
The number one slot went to Maruti's Alto K10.

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2. Ford Figo
The second most searched car company is Honda Siel Cars, though it sells much fewer cars than Hyundai, Tata Motors and even General Motors.
The number one slot predictably goes to the country's largest car company, Maruti Suzuki. In this pecking order, Ford India stands at number seven.
There were around 100 million active internet users in the country in 2010.
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Image: Ford Figo.

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3. Hyundai i10 Next Gen
Ford India's executive director, marketing sales, and service, Nigel Wark says: "When we launched Figo, we allocated seven per cent of our total advertising budget on digital marketing.
This is two to three times what our competitors were spending.
That is paying dividends. So, now we have launched the Global Fiesta only on the digital platform."
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Image: Hyundai i10 Next Gen.

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4. Maruti Suzuki Kizashi
Honda also says tapping the digital media is the key to selling.
"Our brand surveys have shown us Honda cars are the most aspirational in their respective segments.
The brand recall is high. Our customers are all internet-savvy and research online before making purchase decisions.
Even in our own communications, digital marketing forms an integral part. We are allocating an increasing proportion of our ad spends on online media to reach out to our target clientele," says vice-president (marketing & sales) Jnaneswar Sen.

More @ IMAGES: The 10 most searched NEW cars in India

Src: Rediff

Gaurav Jain, Tech2Date.com

With more Android phones hitting the market, choosing the right one is becoming a challenge. Fear not, help is here!

Across the world, Android smartphones have challenged Symbian powered smartphones in last one year.

Symbian was earlier undisputed leader in the global mobile market in high-end smartphones.

Now there are vast range of Android phones available in the market and more devices are yet to hit the market.

Choosing the best Android phone is becoming tough gradually. Well, no need to worry. Here we have compiled a list of Ten best Android phones.

Courtesy: Tech2date.com

FEW OF THEM

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It is a Taiwan made smartphone boasting exquisite features. It is also one of the most potent phones on Android. HTC EVO 4G is the first device that supports 4G connectivity. 4G connectivity is still to hit in many countries, but the handset is doing well as a whole in terms of sales.

HTC EVO 4G has 4.3 inches TFT display screen and is equipped with 8 MP of camera to give it a significant edge if compared to other Android phones of same range. It was the top Android phone in 2010.

Image: HTC EVO 4G

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The success story of Android market got a boost with the launch of Samsung I9000 Galaxy S. Mounted with 4 inches super AMOLED screen, the phone offers best readability in sunlight.

Super AMOLED screen has worked as the main USP of the device and it matches to iPhone4′s Retina display quality. The phone has 1GHz RAM Cortex A8 1GHz processor that speeds the phone's operations. As of now, Samsung I9000 Galaxy S is one of the best proven Android phones in the market so far.

Image: Samsung I9000 Galaxy S

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Very recently Micromax has rolled out high-end handsets. MicroMax Andro A60 is its first Android phone and also it is the cheapest of all the Android phones in the market.

Image: MicroMax Andro A60

More @ 10 Best Android phones ever!

19 must-have Android smartphone apps

Src : REDIFF

21 July 2011

$ 100/Oz Silver Is Now A Conservative Target – Luke Burgess

Most investors assume that because silver is almost 50 times cheaper than gold, it’s more abundant. They’re wrong.

The amount of available silver is far rarer than the amount of available gold.

This fact is often overlooked by even the most seasoned silver investors. And it’s this lack of silver stockpiles that has become one of the most critical factors in what could jolt prices, lifting silver into an entirely different asset class all together.

So forget $100 silver — $100 is now considered a timid prediction. Some experts are now calling for silver prices to be on par with gold!

Let me quickly explain how we got here. Global silver mining has increased significantly over the past two decades.

Silver output has more than doubled since the early 1990s in places like Mexico, Australia, and Peru. Other countries have seen even more dramatic production spikes. In China, a relatively new major supplier of the metal, silver mining has scaled up from less than 10 million ounces in 1991 to more than 100 million ounces today.

Overall, the world’s total silver mining production has increased from 400 million ounces in the early 1990s to about 700 million ounces today.But despite a sharp increase to supplies, the global demand for silver is far outpacing global production.

In fact global silver production has be unable to meet global demand for more than fifteen years. The world’s silver mines are simply not producing enough silver to meet demand.

In 2010, global silver demand exceed 1.05 billion ounces; but as you saw in the chart above, global mining has only provided about 700 million ounces.

So how has the market been filling this deficit?

Over the last two generations, major government stockpiles of silver have been sold off to supply the industry. The United States government alone has dumped nearly 5 billion ounces of silver into the market since WWII.

Of course, any government’s well of silver reserves are finite. And over the past few years, government supplies of silver have been drying up. Data from the Silver Institute shows net government sales of silver falling drastically in the past decade.

	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010
Net Government Sales (million ounces)	63.0	59.2	88.7	61.9	65.9	78.5	42.5	28.9	15.5	44.8

This is one of the major reasons it is critical to act now.

Without government stockpiles to feed it, the market only has few other places to buy its silver. Scrap metal is one option for the market, and will continue to help supply rising demand in the near term. But this well will also quickly run dry — and that will create a real problem for consumers who need silver…

Silver is Actually Rarer than Gold

Silver is 17.5 times more abundant in the Earth’s crust than gold. But the amount of above-ground gold far exceeds the amount of silver.

In 1950, there were 10 billion ounces of available silver above ground. By 1980, that number shrank to 3.5 billion. And today, no significant government stockpiles of silver exist anywhere in the world. The USGS actually lists the U.S. government’s current stockpile of silver simply as: “None.”

The exact opposite is true of gold. In 1950, there were an estimated 1 billion ounces of above-ground gold. Today, there are nearly 5.8 billion ounces across the globe.

The world currently produces about 700 million ounces of silver per year.

So where does it all go?

Believe it or not, most of it winds up as garbage. We literally throw billions of dollars’ worth of silver in trash bins every year.

Silver is required in the production of products like CDs, cell phone batteries, calculators, printed circuit boards, hearing aids, electronic switches, TV screens, catalytic converters, inks, computer monitors, RFID chips, and thousands more. Once any of these items have served their purpose, they generally get tossed. And it’s simply more expensive to recycle the silver from these products than it is to dig more out of the ground.

Tiny bits of silver in electronics are thrown away every day.

I expect that the world’s trash dumps will be a precious source of resources like silver in the future.

You see, gold is produced, but it’s not consumed. Even though gold is a highly desired item, it’s not an industrial commodity.

In other words, gold is desired, but silver is needed.

All of the gold that has ever been mined is basically still around. Studies suggest that 98% of all gold mined throughout history is still available in either coins, bars, artifacts, and jewelry. But silver is different.

From 1990 to 2000 alone, over two billion ounces of silver disappeared from the market to consumption.

Despite the lack of global stockpiles, new technology will continue to discover more industrial applications for silver, putting a further strain on world supplies. Consider the new photovoltaic industry as an example…

In China, the production of photovoltaic solar panel has doubled every single year since 2003. The demand for silver from the global photovoltaic industry has soared in the past few years, and global demand is expected to reach 150 million ounces per year by 2015 — just to satisfy the photovoltaic industry.

But to widen the supply deficit even more, the Silver Institute forecasts industrial uses of silver will rise sharply over the next five years. The organization estimates that by 2015, the demand for silver from industry will increase 36%.

Meanwhile, the demand for silver for jewelry and investment is reaching record levels. A survey of 340 retail jewelers representing ~4,000 individual stores recently showed silver jewelry sales hitting record highs.

The survey found:

87% of jewelry retailers said their silver jewelry sales increased in 2010
52% said their silver jewelry sales increased between 11% and 25%; 28% saw an increase over 25%
Retailers rated the following categories as giving them the “best” maintained margin:
- Silver jewelry 57%
- Diamond jewelry 20%
- Bridal jewelry 15%
- Gold jewelry 4%
- Platinum jewelry 4%

The UK’s Royal Mint, which makes the Britannia silver bullion coins and other collector silver coins, reported silver coin production in the first half of the current year has doubled.

In the meantime, American Eagle Silver bullion coins continue to move at a record-setting sales pace. The latest sales figures indicate the U.S. Mint sold over total of 3.4 million Silver Eagles in June. This figure earned the title as the “Best Ever June,” and ranked seventh place in all-time monthly sales.

This is all very much in line with reports from other mints around the world, which have also seen a huge surge in silver coin sales over the period.

There’s no doubt the silver market will have to face a serious deficit. And in order to balance the deficit, silver will have to come from somewhere…

I believe the majority of this silver will come from investors. And for investors to sell, we’ll need to see higher prices.

The world has been drawing down its above-ground supply of silver for decades, diminishing the only source of what is available for investment. And only now have we begun to collectively recognize silver as a solid investment.

This is the perfect market for silver prices to appreciate. Global supply deficits continue to be ignored year after year by investors. This is slowly changing, but owning silver has not gone mainstream yet…

Even as premiums rise and available retail supply dwindles, there is still time. The opportunity in silver is huge.

Src: Stockmarkets.in

http://stocksmarket.in/commodities-bullion/2011/07/20/100oz-silver-is-now-a-conservative-target-luke-burgess/

18 July 2011

15 HOTTEST Indian start-ups

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A glimpse into 15 most promising start-ups from India selected by Proto.in in association with Sequoia Capital and BSE Small and Medium Enterprises Exchange. These start-ups were selected on the basis of the people behind them, the impact of their products in solving real world problems, the future potential of the product in terms of market size, the scalability of the start-up, business model, execution and wow factor.

Proto.in is a support platform for the Indian start-up community and these start-ups have been picked up after sifting through 101 entries. Here are the hottest 15...

Company Name: Business Intelligenze

Product Name: Jumbo Analyze

Founder: Rahul Sethi

Location: Delhi

Incorporation Year: 2010
Stage of Funding: Pre-funding
Revenue Situation: Prototype

Product Summary: Jumbo Analyse is the proven technique for achieving a significant business impact in BPO -- from enhancing the top line to discovering new ways to reduce bottom line; from trend analysis to customer retention: from revenues to expenses: from analytics on.

Market Need: The BPO industry is an extremely unstructured one with a large number of data points. Jumbo Analayze seeks to use these data- points and save costs and times for BPO's.

Target Market: BPO Sector

We are at Proto.in for: Funding, products validation.

Sarang Devi, son of Subhash Devi of Membrane Filters

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Company Name: Membrane Filters

Product Name: Purioin FnP

Founders: Subhash Devi, Arif Fulari, Bhushan Acharya

Location: Pune

Incorporation Year: 2010

Stage of Funding: Pre Funding

Revenue Situation: Making revenues.

Product Summary: Product specifications

UF Membrane based five stage water filtration system UF Membrane 5* 2 and interconnected with CPVC food grade tubing 20>1 micro multipurpose pre filter in big Blue Housing Silver impregnated post carbon in 10" Housing, all in pre coated GI sheet lockable box mounted on anti vibrating mounting Filtration capacity 1500 LPH.
Pressure filter for removal of large particulate with three way special valve having arrangements for rinsing, drain, through flow.
Water softer for removing temporary hardness with three way special valve arrangements.
AISI 304, Stainless steel storage tank storage capacity 500 liters with sanitary finish outlet valve 25mm ball valve tank mounted on steel frame and anti vibrating mounting.
Centrifugal Pump 1"*1", 1 HP directly coupled to PTO shaft drive of the three wheeler auto with chain drive and runs when vehicle with PTO shaft drive for running the pump.

Market need: Jaldoot can be used in remote area, waters scarcity areas, it can deliver 100% virus problem both a lack of electricity and lack of mobility in rural India.

Target Market: India's Agriculture Sector

We are at Proto.in for: Funding.

More @ http://www.rediff.com/getahead/slide-show/slide-show-1-career-are-these-the-hottest-15-indian-startups/20110713.htm

Micromax A70 Android phone prices revealed

The Android army from Indian companies is getting bigger and bigger. And as expected the entry level phones are the ones that are storming the market. Micromax’s much awaited successor to the A60 is here and the prices have finally been revealed. Here’s a look at the specifications and features that make this phone a cool buy if you are looking for a low price Android phone.

3.2 inch TFT capacitive touch screen
600MHz processor
WiFi b/g, GPRS, EDGE, 3G, Bluetooth 2.1
Accelerometer, GPS
5MP rear facing camera 0.3MP front facing camera
Ships with Android 2.2 Froyo ( no word on future update)
1450mAH battery with upto 4hrs talktime and 7 days standby time.
Price approx 8k

Looking at the specs one can say that the specifications are pretty decent for the price that the phone is being offered. The biggest selling point of this phone is that it is one of the first smartphones to have a price tag below 10k and offering a front facing camera.

This phone will be competing with the likes of Samsung Galaxy Pop, Dell XCD35, LG Optimus One, HTC Wildfire, Sony’s Xperia X10, Xperia Mini, the recently launched Spice MI-310 and many more offerings in the same price range.

So now that the price wars have really begun the only question that remains is whether you are ready to look away from international brands and consider a smartphone manufactured by an Indian company.

Src: Plugged.in

06 July 2011

30 mega projects: China's pride, world's envy!

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The United States no longer lords over the world's most prestigious infrastructure projects.

Some of the world's biggest and most expensive infrastructure projects are in China.

China, Brazil, the Middle East and other parts of the developing world, account for nearly half of the most expensive projects in the world.

Businessinsider says some of these mega projects in China are 'reshaping the world'. Here's a look at some of the biggest and expensive projects in China...

Shanghai World Financial Centre

The world's second-tallest building resembles a bottle opener.

Built at a cost of $1.1 billion, this Shanghai tower was designed by architectural firm Kohn Pederson Fox Associates. It houses offices, hotels, conference rooms, observation decks, and shopping malls on the ground floors. Park Hyatt has 174 rooms and suites in this tower.

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Image: Shanghai World Financial Centre.

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Hangzhou Bay Bridge The world's longest trans-oceanic bridge extends across the Hangzhou Bay to over 35.673 kilometres (22 miles).
It has six expressway lanes in two directions. Inaugurated in May 2008, this modern wonder is an S-shaped stayed-cable bridge with six lanes in both directions.
It brings down the distance between Shanghai and Ningbo by 120 km. This architectural wonder cost $1.70 billion. Click NEXT to read on

Image: Hangzhou Bay Bridge.

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http://www.rediff.com/business/slide-show/slide-show-1-mega-projects-chinas-pride/20110704.htm