Jul 1, 2010
India’s “Demographic Dividend” is the current focus (and “Most Read” article) of Booz & Co’s Strategy + Business magazine. The article is a recap of a panel discussion in which I took part a few months ago in New Delhi, hosted by Thomas A. Stewart Booz & Co’s Chief Marketing and Knowledge Officer. The basis
Apr 25, 2010
India has long been an Orkut holdout for Social Media dominance. Lately, however, Orkut’s lead is not looking so certain. Please consider the following three graphs. CONCLUSION: From below data, we can see a repetition of a trend that took place across SE Asia already. When people try out Facebook, they tend to make it
Nov 10, 2009
Sitting today in Delhi traffic, you might say the crisis is already here, but based on population trends and urban immigration projections put together in a report by Booz & Co, more trouble is on the way. At the invitation of Booz & co, I spent a morning here in Delhi at the World Economic
Nov 10, 2009
Between attending great discussions on India, I had the opportunity to discuss whether India will become an empire with Aaron Pereira. brachycephaly
Feb 17, 2009
Latest research from ComScore about India is that Orkut beat Facebook in December 2008 with more than 12.8 million visitors, an increase of 81 percent from the previous year. Orkut’s audience was three times the size of its nearest competitor in the category, Facebook.com. Facebook had 4 million visitors, up 150 percent versus year ago,
Jan 15, 2009
For a unique take on the impact of Web 2.0, please meet Gregory Lent. Gregory, who spent much of the last decade in India meditating with his Guru, emerged to discover broadband only one year ago. Now obsessively immersed in Twitter (@gregorylent), blogging, Web 2.0 and its implications, Gregory says he has found nothing so
Jun 26, 2008
Vivek Wadhwa is a Wertheim Fellow at the Harvard Law School and executive in residence at Duke University who specializes in studying innovation in business. He was formerly a tech entrepreneur who founded two tech companies. His studies, published at Globalization Research, have included looking at the level of innovation in China, the relative gap
Apr 7, 2008
The Mail Today is a 48-page compact size newspaper first printed in Delhi, Gurgaon and Noida on November 16 2007, with a print run of 110,000 copies. Targeting India’s emergent middle class, the newspaper is based around a subscription model and has the same fonts and feel as the Daily Mail. The Daily Mail’s owner,
Apr 3, 2008
Thomas Jacob, Singapore-based International Development Director of Associated Newspapers, described Mail Today, a newly launched JV newspaper in India to the IFRA conference today. For more on India’s newspaper market, see the video/posting I did with Raju Narisetti of Mint, another newly launched Indian newspaper. A large British publisher Daily Mail and General Trust, is
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Thomas Crampton was a correspondent for the
International Herald Tribune and The New York Times for more than a decade, reporting from five continents, writing a column on Asia and covering Asian politics, economics and culture. Currently based in Hong Kong, he writes here about China, the Internet and New Media seen from Asia, while also advising companies on digital communication strategies. For more information click here...
