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    Whose favourite allegory is a character called Mr Market that was used in his all-time popular book?
    Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham in 1949&nbsp;
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    Which brand holds the record for fabricating the longest tie in the world that was displayed outside on its premises?
    Shoppers Stop, Mumbai (the tie was made by Zodiac)&nbsp;
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    Recently, this brand had to revert to its original logo after users on social media sites rejected its new

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Tashi wasn&rsquo;t Tata International&rsquo;s debut in footwear retailing as the company had launched the Stryde brand a decade ago. That failed experiment, however, didn&rsquo;t come in the way of the hype that Tashi has generated since its launch a month back.

Noel Tata puts his best foot forward

Richard Hartell is the Chief Strategy Officer at Starcom Mediavest, responsible for the Europe, Middle East and African (EMEA) region. Hartell was in Mumbai recently as chairperson of the agency&rsquo;s global product committee (GPC). He spoke to Viveat Susan Pinto about the performance of emerging markets such as India.

Q&A: Richard Hartell, Chief Strategy Officer, Starcom Mediavest, EMEA

Tablet PCs might not exactly be selling like hotcakes in India yet, but the excitement they elicit is worth noting.

The 'tablet' touch

Yasin Bajiwala, 33, from Bharuch in Gujarat, has a virtual avatar &lsquo;London Boy&rsquo; and spends almost Rs 300 per month on virtual presents. Bajiwala, an entrepreneur by profession, joined the social networking community three years ago and spends up to eight hours on mobile, interacting with his friends. &ldquo;I like exchanging virtual gifts regularly. I spend the most on virtual presents like hugs and kisses,&rdquo; he says.

Gifting gets virtual, and popular

With affordable internet services, decline in handset prices, more thrust from service providers and convenience of mobile usage, an increasing number of people have begun to plan their travel through mobile phones.

Mobile booking for travel tickets gains speed

    An aggressive corporate acquisition of an entity called TomorrowNow has become TomorrowNever. Name the owner and the reason for its closure.

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It has been Android&rsquo;s year so far &mdash; with new phones being launched almost every week, there are just too many options.

Go Android

Rajiv Bajaj isn&rsquo;t a particularly religious man, but the two most favourite words in his lexicon these days are Rama and Krishna. These are the codewords Bajaj Auto employees use for Discover and Pulsar &mdash; the two brands that have helped turn around the fortunes of the two-wheeler giant.

Riding high on Rama & Krishna

When the general entertainment channel from the Viacom18 stable, Colors, grabbed the top slot in viewership ratings for a good 22 weeks last financial year, Star Plus reinvented itself to keep pace with the new-age Indian women.

Star Plus zooms on fiction power

Mobile number portability (MNP) might offer freedom of choice to subscribers, but for stakeholders who facilitate this service, it is a complex task.

Tech aid to mobile number portability

It has been three years since Kumar Prabhas took over the mantle of the India development centre of Unisys &mdash; the $4.6 billion global information technology company. Unisys competes with IBM, Accenture, HP and Indian IT players and has close to 3,000 people in the country. Prabhas is focused on making the India centre the key unit in the Unisys universe.

Q&A: Kumar Prabhas, VP & GM, Unisys Global Services India & MD, Unisys India

What the bleep is curry?&rdquo; asks an exasperated Maneet Chauhan. The India-born executive chef of Vermilion, a chic restaurant offering Indian-Latin American fusion cuisine in New York and Chicago, is referring to the frequent requests she still gets for &ldquo;the recipe for curry&rdquo;.

Made in Manhattan

Welcome to the world of the enormously powerful Mercedes-Benz. Bijoy Kumar Y is smitten by the AMG badge.

Hail the Stuttgart taxi!

An early scene in David Fincher&rsquo;s 1995 thriller Se7en has an elderly police detective named Somerset (Morgan Freeman) alone in his room at night, sitting up in bed, probably suffering from insomnia. Later in the film, when Somerset and his young partner break into the den of a psychotic serial killer (known only as &ldquo;John Doe&rdquo;), they discover hundreds of notebooks full of incoherent rants &mdash; outpourings against the world and the people in it &mdash; scribbled in the killer&rsquo;s writing. Still later, we learn that John Doe isn&rsquo;t just committing grisly murders built around the seven deadly sins; he&rsquo;s playing God, at least in his own mind; he&rsquo;s exposing human foibles, revealing the world for the awful place that it is.

Lonely planet

For a movie buff, few experiences can be as fresh or revealing as watching an early film made by a now-celebrated director, or an early film starring a highly decorated actor &mdash; in other words, before the personality in question was beatified or turned into an icon of pop culture.

The pre-icons

We are a family of two. Occasionally we are four when my daughter and son-in-law visit Pune. On an average we drive about 500 km a month with the rare Pune-Mumbai drive thrown in. Presently we are using a Hyundai Santro and we are happy with it. However, we are now looking for a different car and we intend to buy either the Volkswagen Polo or Nissan Micra. We like both but cannot make up our minds which one is better. Our budget is around Rs 6 lakh (flexible up to Rs. 6.5 lakh) and we are looking at fuel efficient, durable car.

Micro-nomics

It&rsquo;s been 10 years since the boy wizard first cast his spell. But now his magic seems to be waning.

Potter fatigue?

This is more than a mere compilation of the words of the individuals who made modern India, says Sunanda K Datta-Ray, but the list is less than satisfying.

The makers made

It&rsquo;s 12.30 am on a Tuesday. Thirty people dressed in red football jerseys are cheering &lsquo;their&rsquo; team on. The place is Manchester United caf&eacute; in Gurgaon and the team these fans are supporting is, but of course, Manchester United.

Cash for kicks

Jawaharlal Nehru and Ghanshyam Das Birla first met in 1924 when Mahatma Gandhi, just out of jail, was recuperating in the industrialist&rsquo;s beach-facing house in Mumbai. A year later, Nehru told Gandhi that he was a little tight for money. Gandhi mentioned Nehru&rsquo;s plight to Birla. Almost overnight, Birla turned up at Nehru&rsquo;s home at Allahabad and offered to help him out of the situation. Nehru was incensed, but managed to conceal his anger from his visitor. This was the beginning of the uneasy relationship between the two.

Political Birla

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