While tablets are giving stiff competition to other mobile devices, according to a recent online survey by IMRB International, they still have some way to go before they emerge as the perfect entertainment companion for digital consumers.

Dial 'T' for entertainment

Business Standard

It is often said that although reaching up to a peak is difficult but to stay there is even more challenging. The story of Kaun Banega Crorepati goes along similar lines and encapsulates the show's meteoric rise to popularity in the year of its launch, its fall in the subsequent editions and its resurgence in the current one. KBC started afresh in its latest edition with a fresh insight and exemplifying creativity that betters content. The result was for everyone to see.

KBC changed greed to need

The next time you are planning a bus ride from Mumbai to Goa or Delhi to Jaipur, expect some extra comfort and luxury. And it won&rsquo;t be long before this extra luxury hits your city roads. A fleet of new Volvo buses, comprising coaches and city buses, will soon joined its forerunners on the Indian roads and beyond.

For a ride less ordinary

Grilled for a year... Um&hellip;we mean Fiery Grilled for a year;) Just complete this &mdash; &ldquo;You love Fiery Grilled coz ________.

All fire, no ice

The Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode, (IIMK) and Abu Dhabi University have signed an MoU on collaborative education and exchange programme.

IIMK, Abu Dhabi varsity sign MoU

The music label&rsquo;s new brand &ndash; Icons Nxt &ndash; aims to bring non-filmy music back in currency.

Saregama sings a different tune

I joined advertising in 1979 and my first exposure to the legend called Bal Mundkur was a quick visit to his wonderful home, a recce for the famous Bombay Dyeing film (I had been seconded by my first employer Rediffusion to work for a week with film maker Prahlad Kakar who was making the film for Ulka). I met Bal the man for the first time at his office in 1989. I was to be interviewed by him for a position to head Ulka South.

Bal Mundkur: The legend

The need of hour is to have proper transparency as in foreign educational institutes. Numerous agreements should be made on the development of a system of internationally comparable qualification to make higher education systems more transparent.

Student's Corner

Many students decline the lucrative finance sector to opt for jobs in core-engineering sector as it offers job security and good pay.

Engineering jobs favoured in IITs 

The results of the Common Aptitude Test (CAT), conducted by the Indian Institutes of Management, was announced today. In 2011, 1.85 lakh students took the examination. The aspirational 100 percentile was managed by nine students, while 1,800 students crossed the 99 percentile barrier.

CAT is out of the bag students sceptical over interview call

Since its introduction in the US in 2002, Axe, the body spray and grooming brand by Unilever, has been pitched squarely at young men, with commercials depicting women getting a whiff of Axe users and then aggressively pursuing them.

She-change for Axe

Tata Motors is keen to put the small car&rsquo;s past behind.

Will Nano's brand resurrection work?

IIM heads met today to find ways to raise funds to meet expansion plans and are understood to have decided to go ahead with setting up of development centres and start the process of relation building with philanthropists, industrialists and their alumni.

IIM heads meet, discuss ways to raise funds for expansion

Press Trust of India

You might think commerce and creativity seldom go together. But the folks at ING Vysya would disagree. The private bank, formed with the merger of ING Group and Vysya Bank in 2002, has launched a unique initiative at a Mumbai branch where art meets finance, literally. The &lsquo;art branch&rsquo;, spread over 1,300 square feet in south Mumbai&rsquo;s Cuffe Parade, houses an art gallery that gives established as well as budding artists a platform to display their works, in addition to providing the usual banking and financial services. A one-of-its-kind venture, the branch has been designed by Dr Art+Design, a design management studio that provides support services to developers, architects, designers etc.

ING Vysya: The fine art of finance

Timex is trying to change its perception as simply an outdoorsy brand &mdash; it was to be regarded as a brand serious about improving your sports performance. Timex Group India has launched a new range of watches in India dubbed Heart Rate Monitor (HRM) watches. The watches are specially designed for the fitness-conscious and sports enthusiasts. This is probably the first time ever that such an innovation has been tried out for the Indian consumer.

Timex Group: Challenge your limits

A televised campaign in the US has led to a war of words for the top spot in the global tractors market. Days after Mahindra &amp; Mahindra claimed in a US ad campaign that it is the world&rsquo;s largest tractor maker by volume, John Deere, its closest competitor, has hit back.

Tractor battle out in the field

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The bubble gum from Cadbury-Kraft Foods is targeting young adults as opposed to pre-teens.

Bubbaloo grows up

Rehabilitation in India has long been just a support function in hospitals. However, it is now emerging as an essential component of healthcare&rsquo;s continuum of services.

KIT: Evolution of rehabilitation services

    This person exchanged his French citizenship for American in the 40s, saying that it was thanks to the US that he had a wonderful wife, a good job and the ability to do something for them.

The Strategist Quiz (#236)

    Planning Poker is a team building activity for achieving group consensus.

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