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FMCG majors take to mobile advertising
(Business Standard)
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Hindustan Unilever and Coca-Cola have already launched campaigns.
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Brand Portrait co-founder leaves to set up new agency
(Hindu Business Line)
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Mr B.S. Raj Narain, one of the four founders of Chennai-based ad agency Brand Portrait, has left it to set up his own outfit called Optima 24 x 7.
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IRS shows media fragmentation
(DNA)
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The icing on the cake has come at the cost of slicing of the cake.
The Indian Readership Survey (IRS) 2008 — currently the only benchmark for gauging readership of print publications, as the National Readership Survey remains “in hibernation” till 2009 — has released its first-round findings, painting a picture of the print media rife with fragmentation.
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DTH cos hope to break even with carriage fee
(Economic Times)
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With mounting losses plaguing DTH operators, Tata Sky and Dish TV, both the players have now resorted to charging carriage fee from new channels for shoring up their revenues.
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NEWSMAKER: Abhijit Pawar
(Business Standard)
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It's hard to believe but true. Within a day of the launch of his brand new English daily Sakaal Times, Abhijit Pawar, managing director of the Rs 350-crore Pune-based Sakal Media Group, was taking a flight to Disneyland (Orlando) for a month-long vacation with his family — wife and two children, aged eight and six years.
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'Saas-bahus have their place but not on prime time'
(Business Standard)
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When Samir Nair was with STAR, he "invented" the saas-bahu soaps. With NDTV Imagine — which he started a year ago not really in a garage but in the business centre of a five-star hotel in Mumbai — he is betting on a decline in this genre's popularity and eventual relegation to daytime slots.
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What actually is Web 2.0 and why should you care?
(Business Standard)
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Yesterday was the start of the Web Innovation Summit in Mumbai and the first panel, for which I was the moderator, focused on ‘What is Web 2.0'.
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Yahoo to beta test its Glue Pages in India
(DNA)
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With the launch of Yahoo’s latest search concept called Glue Page, the company is targeting to create better monetisation opportunities for its India operations besides making the search engine more efficient.
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Shreyas Shipping steers Maruti cars into Kochi port
(Hindu Business Line)
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Shreyas Shipping Logistics Ltd, the logistics division of shipping conglomerate the Transworld Group, has formalised an exclusive contract with Maruti Udyog Ltd for the movement of Maruti cars to Kerala through the coastal shipping mode.
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Never mind modern retail, Chennai’s kiranas do well: Study
(Hindu Business Line)
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It’s 12 years to the day since modern and organised retailing took birth in Chennai when Carnatic music icon, the late M.S. Subbulakshmi, inaugurated the first Foodworld store, then promoted by the RPG group, on C.P. Ramaswamy Road, one of the city’s main thoroughfares.
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Spencer’s Retail marginally affected by inflation
(Hindu Business Line)
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RPG Enterprises’ Spencer’s Retail will add 100 small-format convenience stores and 20 hypermarkets in the financial year 2008-09, said Mr Nimish Shah, Vice-President (West zone).
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Go-Frugal develops retail solution for SMEs
(Hindu Business Line)
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Go-Frugal Technologies, a Chennai-based software product company, has developed a low-cost solution for small and medium size retailers using the application platform of Sun Microsystems. Both companies would jointly take the retail solution for SMEs across the country.
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Bharti set to dilute equity for MTN buy
(Business Standard)
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Domestic telecom major plans to raise up to Rs 28,000 crore to part-finance the acquisition.
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Smaller telcos eye global acquisitions
(Hindu Business Line)
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It’s not just the large Indian telecom companies that are looking at international acquisitions.
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