China bloggers

Today I was riding down the elevator when an advertisement flashed across the mini screen . It said " the bloggers in china have surpassed 20 million mark" . There is a cambrian explosion of businesses waiting to happen in China…

Games and recruiting

Games bring the best amongst us. It shows our IQ, EQ , if used properly is the right mode for recruiting. Google time and again uses this techinique for recruiting.This time for content writers in India

Facebook in talks with Yahoo for $1B deal

Via WSJ.com : One popular use of social-networking site Facebook.com is to flirt with other members. As it happens, Facebook Inc., the start-up company behind the Web site, has been doing some serious flirting of its own. People familiar with the matter say the company has held separate acquisition talks with Yahoo Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Viacom Inc. over the past year. Now, say some of these people, the start-up is in serious discussions – again – to sell itself to Yahoo for an amount that could approach $1 billion.

Bubble me instead of SMS me

Bubble Motion , an innovative use of a technology..I just love the way something is put to use which is probably,in the hindsight looks as a bloody obvious need in the market. The service is launched in Pune. ’ll be interesting to see if the result is same as Malaysian market.

Car dealers : Good FICO Scores are bad

FICO , a concept which helped banks to remove the human element out of credit decisioning process, thus making lives simpler. One metric could encapsulate a whole lot of information relating to the payment history , outstanding balance, length of credit, depth of credit and recency of credit. Improvement of FICO score was always considered a healthy option for a person as it would give way to a lot of incentives like low buy down points, lower mortgage interest rates,etc.