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Informate Mobile Intelligence (IMI), a division of Cross-Tab, a Bangalore-based market research and analytics service provider, recently launched a mobile consumption trends report that analyses the ways in which consumers spend time with their mobile phones.

I know there are a lot of people who go around sounding the death knell for mass media advertising. Digital is in, they say. Few among them are likely to have done a digital campaign on their own. Their opinion is often skimmed off reports compiled by others who just quote some others. It works for them because they get invited for seminars where they can continue the masquerade.

The CPI(M)-led Kerala government on Monday opposed Centre's disinvestment policy, saying dilution of government stake should be adhered to only in case of chronically sick central public enterprises (CPSEs).

The offshore legal services industry has also been caught in the grip of the tough times that the legal services industry is going through.

With the economy yet to emerge fully from the shadows of the slowdown, the government on Monday reiterated that the stimulus measures would continue during 2009-10, and would be withdrawn in a phased manner.

In yet another legal setback to Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati, the Supreme Court on Monday rejected her plea for quashing a PIL filed against her in the Taj Corridor scandal.

Cabinet secretary KM Chandrasekhar has directed the department of public enterprises (DPE) to make the management of central public sector enterprises (CPSEs) compulsorily use the financial and managerial freedom delegated to them.

For all the talk about globalisation, we Westerners still tend to see the world economy very much from our own cultural perspective—and fail rather badly in incorporating the viewpoint from the 'other side', half a world away.

PEC to extend validity of rice import tender PEC, which had invited bids for importing rice, has asked the government to extend validity of the bids till November 23 and it would by then decide whether or not to import the foodgrain.

Real estate Residential real estate, driven by cheaper loans and correction in prices, is seeing growth revival that has been the strongest in Delhi and Mumbai, which together accounted for almost 64% of the new launches in the second quarter of this year.

At a time when merger and acquisition activities by companies across the world are gaining momentum once again, India on Monday warned multinational companies against indulging in anti competitive practices.

How was the just concluded festive season for you? It was the best period for us in the past two years.

Haryana chief secretary, Urvashi Gulati met the executives of various oil companies situated in Haryana to review the safety and security aspects of their oil depots.

Winters are good for the hosiery industry but the drop in mercury across north India hasn't really cheered the industrialists in Ludhiana.

India, Indonesia and Norway continued to top the global rankings for the most-confident nations, while the most pessimistic nations were Latvia and Japan, says the Nielsen Global Consumer Confidence Index, which jumped from 77 index points in April to 86 points this month.

Francis Gurry, the director-general of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) was in the capital recently, amid the controversies over multilateral body's plans to reform the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) which, some quarters allege, would lead to infringing upon the powers of national governments in matters of patent examination and grant.

The Supreme Court on Monday sought the responses of the Union ministries of home and telecom as well as the J&K government on a petition challenging the imposition of a ban on pre-paid mobile connections in the militancy-hit state.

David Coleman Headley, the alleged Lashkar-e-Toiba operative held in the US by the FBI for planning terror attacks in India and Denmark, lived in an apartment in south Mumbai's Breach Candy area with an elderly Sindhi couple who were "charmed" by the pleasant and accommodating behaviour of their paying guest.

Shiv Sena's latest attempt to raise the pitch on the 'Mumbai for Maharashtrians' issue in the wake of its Assembly poll debacle boomeranged today with chief Bal Thackeray drawing nationwide flak for criticising Sachin Tendulkar over his remarks that Mumbai belonged to all Indians.