Friday, August 24, 2012

Casting a spell!

From The Princess Diaries to Ella Enchanted, from giving the voice-over for Little Red Riding Hood in Hoodwinked to playing the adorable Andy Sachs in The Devil wears Prada, 27-year-old Anne Hathway certainly has become the face of all fairy-tale and fantasy movies in Hollywood. After recently playing the White Queen in Alice in Wonderland, Anne is now all set for playing Emma, a Cinderella-like character in the upcoming movie, One day. From princess to queen to fairy, she surely has her audience enchanted!


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Friday, October 03, 2008

Ringing in a vas strategy

After losing out in the race to add millions of new customers, Ratan Tata has decided that apart from boosting Tata Tele’s subscriber base, he will focus on the more-profitable, higher-margin value-added services By devdeep singh


“We were perhaps the last to join the telecom race in India, but over the past few years, we are the fastest-growing brand in the country. At the end of February 2008, with more than three million subscribers, we are the second-largest player in the important Delhi and NCR region,” claims Anil Sardana, MD, Tata Teleservices. But even as one hears Sardana dole out such statistics, one distinctly feels that there is some sort of a disconnect between what he’s saying and the subscribers’ base figures that are regularly released by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI).

With around 23 million subscribers, Tata Teleservices stands at the No. 5 position in the great telecom race, behind behemoths like Bharti Airtel, Reliance Communications, Vodafone Essar and BSNL. “Tata has been a laggard. It has grown at a decent pace but obviously their execution has not been quite at par with that of other biggies,” says Harit Shah, Telecom Analyst at Angel Trade. “Lack of market-centric strategies and restricting to limited number of product and service offering did not work in favor of the company,” adds Shushmul Maheshwari, Telecom Analyst at RNCOS. But the Tata strategy is different from those of its competitors. Since the inception of Tata Tele in 1996, the company has chosen to concentrate on margins and profitability, rather than chase volumes (as is the case with the others).....Continue

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Tuesday, October 30, 2007

A call to Arms

If the early 1990s had marked a big break from the closed economy model of the socialist era, the mid 1990s defined a paradigm shift away from the Nehruvian foreign policy model. It is not far fetched to state that the 21st century ushers in a new era in privatisation of Indian defence, endeavouring to transform the mighty Indian armed forces from a ‘holy cow’ to a roaring tiger Imagine, the hostilities have broken out between India and its primary adversary. The Indian naval warships & airforce combatants deployed in the war zone are all set to launch their missiles onto the enemy vessels & territory. And suddenly, they find their navigation equipment – dependent on feed from the US-based global positioning system (GPS) – giving erroneous output. The war machines go blind because they don’t know where they are and in which direction to turn. The missiles with faulty navigation technology are flying helter-skelter. All plans go haywire. This is a possible scenario, which the defence strategists oft en discuss to bring out the dangers of over-dependence on foreign defence technology & the importance of indigenisation.

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Thursday, October 11, 2007

The new roaring dragon!

Any growing economy is ought to be mentioned (at least somewhere) as New China, and Vietnam is no exception.Making strides as a global destination for foreign investments Since90s Vietnam had been the second fastest growing economy, just after China (again!). What’s more, it is poised to clock an annual growth of 8%-10% upto 2015. Playing upon the ‘de-risking card’, it is attracting investments from MNCs that are hesitant to invest more in the capricious China.

This once war-torn economy now has GDP accelerating at 8.5% annually. From Intel to Microsoft , most of big IT players are pumping huge amounts of money. The State too is leaving no stone unturned to lure the investors as is witnessed in the enactment of bankruptcy and intellectual property laws in the recent periods. To support the investment drive, the infrastructural development is also taking place at an unprecedented pace, wherein the government is investing around 10% of GDP on infrastructure. Vietnam’s competitive advantage over China has been its English speaking young population whereby the youngsters are not only well educated but employable. Moreover, the domestic market for soft ware and technology services has been instrumental in creating a successful outsourcing market. This had made Vietnam shift its headlines from political pages of newspaper to business pages.
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