China vowed Tuesday to keep a tight grip on the Internet, saying it would continue to block anything considered subversive or threatening to “national unity.”
The “white paper” statement of government policy was released three months after a public dispute over censorship prompted Google Inc. to shut its mainland-based search engine.
It said there were 384 million [...]
Bangladesh has blocked social networking site Facebook for posting caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed and “obnoxious” images of the Muslim-majority country’s leaders, an official said Sunday.
Facebook was blocked late Saturday, the Bangladesh Telecommunications Regulatory Commission said.
The move was ordered after the website “hurt the religious sentiments of the country’s majority Muslim population” by publishing caricatures [...]
Indian is undoubtedly one of the fastest growing social media market. Even though the social media scene in India was highly dominated by Google owned Orkut for a very long time, Facebook and Twitter have now gained a large fan base. According to Alexa, six out of top ten websites in India are social media [...]
Anil Keshari Shah, currently the CEO of Mega Bank and a household name in Nepal, in his own words ‘loves change, thrives in change’. He shared his story of his life among 80 young entrepreneurs during the Last Thursday’s program on April 29th, 2010 organized by Entrepreneurs for Nepal, Samriddhi and Change Fusion.
In fact, change [...]
Following some recent media reports published online and offline referring HRD minister Mr. Kapil Sibal, trustworthy of Indian premier private educational institutes, including ISB and ICFAI, has come under big scanner. The reports quoted the minister as saying about 201 private educational institutes in India are operating without obtaining due approval from the Govt. The [...]
The government of India announced on Monday that it would be formally banning foreign direct investment (FDI) in cigarette manufacturing. This decision would thereby close the doors on many foreign tobacco companies such as Japan Tobacco, The Africa Group and BAT. A press note issued by the Ministry of Commerce noted that “It has been [...]
Sometime last year eBay had acquired Gmarket which is a Korean auction website for $ 1.2 Billion in its quest to expand in the Korean market and make its presence felt there. We have to agree that the deal paid off well and the online market house has forayed well and deep into Korea. An [...]
Sachin Tendulkar, the best known celebrity of India and the person with titles such as ‘God of Cricket’ and ‘Master Blaster’, has joined the micro-blogging revolution by signing up with Twitter. His Twitter ID is Sachin_rt and its a verified account. He has 133k followers so far.
If you are eager to know about Sachin’s plan [...]
India has always been known as a land of mysteries and wonders. With the number of gods that Hindus have, we sure have a way to ask for anything from any god we want. Funny part is some of the gods somehow get associated for totally irrelevant stuff. I came across this hilarious picture of [...]
There is some really big news for all the fans of McDonald’s in India. The Fast Food chain giant announced that it was planning to bring its internationally famous brand McCafe to India. McCafe is the chain of coffee shop which is synonymous with the product-just as McDonald’s is with its brand of eatables. The [...]
