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E-commerce in India was estimated at Rs 32,000 crore in 2010 and is expected to grow at 40 per cent annually.

KIT: E-commerce in the apparel segment

    Every week analysts of this firm offer stock tips at a gathering called &ldquo;The trading huddle&rdquo;. Some traders who make bets with the firm&rsquo;s own money also attend it. Name the firm.

The Strategist Quiz (#208)

To get the most out of your notebook and use its intended functions, particularly portability, it is important that you have the right choice of accessories.

Jazz up your laptop

    The US patent office issued a patent called the &ldquo;361 patent&rdquo; to this company. The business model which led to Google&rsquo;s success was copied from this company. Name it.

Answers to last week's quiz (#207)

If the picture on the top &ndash; Katrina Kaif on a macho Bullet Classic 500 &ndash; comes as a surprise, you are in a hopeless minority. The picture from the upcoming Bollywood movie, Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara, has been creating more than a few waves in cyberspace.

Enfield hits the highway

A few months back, in one of my articles I spoke about how the talent in the advertising industry is migrating to start agencies of their own and churning out some very good pieces of work. How these small shops are pulling the rug from under the feet of big ones.

Long live non-aligned  independent agencies!

The media invite for the launch of Research in Motion&rsquo;s (RIM&rsquo;s) tablet PC, PlayBook, was in the form of a boxing glove. The message &mdash; and we don&rsquo;t pick up signals wrong &mdash; was loud and clear: RIM is ready to knock out competition. That&rsquo;s the overriding mood at RIM, better known as the maker of BlackBerry smartphones.

New connection

A young entrepreneur with an engineering degree from India&rsquo;s premier engineering school and a postgraduate degree from the US&rsquo;s finest technical school develops an innovative service aimed at ameliorating the energy utility situation in rural India. In 1995, he co-founds SELCO India, which provides customised energy solutions based on each household&rsquo;s requirements. It facilitates low-income rural households to secure financing help from local financial institutions.

Lighting up rural India

Adobe Creative Suite (CS) 5.5 leverages tablets like never before and improves video performance. It fine tunes what the CS 5 started last year, helping feature filmmakers slash post-production costs by 80 per cent in some cases. For other creative professionals it squeezes a week&rsquo;s work in one day, says Mark Phibbs, senior director of APAC (Asia-Pacific) marketing, and global channel marketing at Adobe Systems.

Q&A: Mark Phibbs, Sr Director - APAC Marketing, Adobe Systems

The move is a part of the online giant&rsquo;s efforts to improve Chrome&rsquo;s market share in India.

Google switches on to prime time TV

Can your garments help supplement your daily work-out? Reebok came out with an answer last month by launching the EasyTone range of garments in India.

Garments that work out

Soaps, detergents, shampoo, hair oil, biscuit and chocolate majors have benefitted big time from their policy of targeting the bottom of the pyramid (BOP), made famous by the late management guru, C K Prahalad. Most FMCG companies today boast of 20-30 per cent of their revenues coming from rural markets.

The Rs 5 conundrum

3D movies, which captivated audiences in theatres, are now set to woo movie buffs on the home screen. Hollywood studios like Walt Disney Studios and Sony Home Entertainment Pictures are introducing popular titles in 3D Blu-ray discs to cash in on the growth of 3D hardware in India.

Walt Disney, Sony warm up to 3D movies at home

After a successful battle with cancer, former model Lisa Ray is launching a TV show on jewellery. She tells Aabhas Sharma that she now takes nothing for granted.

Ray's treasure hunt

As a lightning rod which captures the country&rsquo;s mood, one could do worse than look to Aamir Khan for leads.

Aamir's Zeitgeist

After several years of neglect, India is spending large sums of money to upgrade its armed forces.

Rearmament of India

The SUV segment starts at around Rs 5 lakh and goes right up to a crore of rupees or even more, but that hasn&rsquo;t stopped people from gobbling them up. Riding this wave are manufacturers who are bringing in a slew of new off-roaders and soft-roaders into the market. We look at which ones are around the corner and tell you whether it might make sense to hold on to your purse strings for a little longer.

SUVs you right

I am planning to buy a small car for my wife. I have narrowed down my choices to the Suzuki A-star, Nissan Micra, Hyundai i10 and Toyota Etios Liva. My budget (on-road) is Rs 5 lakh. I had initially thought of the Tata Nano, but decided against it since it doesn&rsquo;t have power steering. My wife has just learnt how to drive.

Micra managing

In Sanand, farmers are silent but happy spectators to their own transformation. Out of nowhere, this village 35 km from Ahmedabad is emerging as India&rsquo;s latest Motown after Pune, Gurgaon and Chennai. The Tata Motors factory, Sanand&rsquo;s claim to fame: can produce 250,000 Nanos in a day. Maruti Udyog, Ford and Hero Honda have indicated that they could set up shop here. Real estate developers like DLF and Parsvnath want to build residential complexes here. State government officials, smug over the successful transformation of Sanand, say that they own 29,000 more acres around the village for sale to other corporations. About half of it is already sold, and &ldquo;the response is great for the remaining land&rdquo;.

From Nano to magna

When Juliet Jacobs found out she had lung cancer, she was terrified, but realised that her hope lay in getting the best treatment medicine could offer. So she got a second opinion, then a third. In February of 2010, she ended up at Duke University, where she entered a research study whose promise seemed stunning.

Dodgy science

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