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Weekly Top 5

Posted on January 16, 2012 by manu prasad
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Weekly Top 5

Posted on May 20, 2011 by manu prasad

This week’s top news has Angry Birds, Zynga’s acquisitions and valuation, Twitter for Mac, Twitter mobile website, Lady Gaga, its deal with NTT DOCOMO, Android’s security fix, Market Update, Samsung bringing Gingerbread to Galaxy, ViewSonic’s Honeycomb tablet, Facebook’s lawsuits, Places … Continue reading →

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Even distribution

Posted on November 19, 2009 by manu prasad

The per second and per character billing wars happening in the Indian mobile space now, made me consider whether its beyond a price thing – a need for consumers to slice and splice until they get exactly what they need. … Continue reading →

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Flipping news models

Posted on September 24, 2009 by manu prasad

Google’s Fast Flip has been receiving quite a lot of attention these days. Based on the Google News model of aggregation and categorisation, Google has partnered with quite  few sources including BBC, BusinessWeek, Washington Post, New York time, to name … Continue reading →

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Broken News models

Posted on June 29, 2009 by manu prasad

The Iran crisis once again brought the present day tools of news gathering into the limelight, even while highlighting the inadequacies of traditional media. From real time tools like PicBrk to spoof ads and stories, the tools became the focal … Continue reading →

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Google noose?

Posted on April 23, 2009 by manu prasad

The A.P. will work with portals and other partners who legally license our content and will seek legal and legislative remedies against those who don’t. We can no longer stand by and watch others walk off with our work under … Continue reading →

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A rocky future ?

Posted on March 12, 2009 by manu prasad

The video that marked the end of Rocky Mountain News, a daily newspaper in Denver, would have a sobering effect on anyone who’s worked in the industry. The newspaper printed its final edition on Feb 27th, 55 days short of … Continue reading →

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