No Business Like Shoe Business !!!

Ramazan Baydan, owner of the Baydan Shoe Company in Istanbul holds a newly produced copy of the shoe that was thrown at President Bush.
The entrepreneur wants to rename the model, a brown leather shoe with a thick sole, as the Bush shoes.

Rajasthan Royals unveils new logo

New Logo


Old Logo


Royalty and team spirit is the core values of the modified logo, which has been designed to evoke pride and grandeur. It also retains the colours of the earlier logo - blue and gold.

60 Years of Soles and Stripes

Adidas Originals is celebrating "60 Years of Soles and Stripes" by creating its largest global brand campaign. The Originals currently accounts for 20% of Adidas sales and in the collection are evergreens such as the classic Stan Smith tennis shoe. Adidas brought out its stars from the worlds of music, fashion and sport to take part, including: David Beckham, Missy Elliott, Kevin Garnett, Ilie Năstase, Kimora Simmons, Katy Perry and Mark Gonzales and Russell Simmons.

Tintin turns 80

Tintin, the young Belgian reporter whose adventures have delighted children and adults worldwide, has turned 80. Created by Belgian artist Georges Remi, this comic strip first appeared in a children's supplement to Belgian daily ‘Le Vingtième Siècle’ on January 10, 1929.
Tintin, who was born graphically to the public in 1929, is designated by the single name. In 1978, Hergé has suggested that "Tintin" is rather a name or a nickname (freely chosen by parents) and not a family name (dictated by descent).
Profession: Tintin is presented as a reporter working for Le Petit Vingtième, the newspaper which also publishing his adventures.

ASIN New Brand Ambassador for TANISHQ

Tanishq, India's most desired jewellery brand unveils their new line of exquisite gold jewellery collection "Blush"- For the girl in you.
Brand Ambassador:
brand ambassador of Tanishq is south Indian actress Asin. This is the first time that a South Indian actor will endorse the brand.
About Tanishq:
Owned by the house of Tatas, Tanishq has around 115 exclusive boutiques in 75 cities, making it India's first and largest jewellery retail store chain.
Name trivia:
The name Tanishq has been formed by combining "Tan" (body in Hindi) and "Ishq" or (love in Hindi)

Religion in a Hi-Tech Era

The Vatican is endorsing novel technology which will bring the book of daily prayers used by priests straight onto iPhones, via iBreviary, an iTunes application.
This iBreviary is a book of prayer created by the Italian priest Paolo Godfather along with few programmer, it contains all the prayers of the church year, and is available in Italian, English, Spanish, Latin and French, but later will launch versions in Portuguese and German.

Google also goes green

Few days back I reported about IBM’s Project Big Green, which was energy efficient and cost saving solutions to manage data center. Now how can Google left behind on such projects, they have also designed and built the most energy efficient data centers in the world.

Most of our work is focused on saving resources such as electricity and water and, more often than not, we find that these actions lead to reduced operating costs. Being "green" is essential to keeping our business competitive. It is this economic advantage that makes our efforts truly sustainable.

Nirdhan Utthan Bank Limited

Today I was asking Lokesh, is there is no microfinance institution (MFI) in Nepal , he replied they have and infact bank’s name is quite interesting, and the name of Nepal’s biggest MFI is Nirdhan Utthan Bank Limited.

Nirdhan Utthan Bank Limited, "the bank for upliftment of the poor" is a microfinance bank established in November 1998 under Company Act of Nepal 1997 (now Company Act 2006). Nepal Rastra Bank, the central bank of Nepal granted a license in April 1999 to undertake banking activities under the Development Bank Act 1996. It started its formal operation from July 1999

In case if you are interested to read more

Adidas Predator Pulse Icon boots and Predator Power Swerve TRX

England captain and Real Madrid midfielder David Beckham personally delivers the first 23 pairs of his new adidas Predator Pulse Icon boots at the east London sports store where he was bought his first pair of football boots by his father in London.

About the shoe: This stylish design is the first Adidas Predator Pulse 2 boot to not feature the trademark Red on any part of the boot and will be David Beckham's own and personal signature boot.

Brand Update: Adidas Predator Power Swerve TRX

"

Adidas launch the revolutionary new Predator Powerswerve developed with the help of the French winning World Cup legend Zinédine Zidane. After ending his career in the 2006 World Cup final, he worked with the Adidas innovation team in creating the new football boot. Zidane tested the Predator PowerSwerve using his knowledge and experience to improve the quality and fit of this football boot.

A Message from an unknown Satyamite

Dear all of my Satyamites,

Yesterday will be a memorable day to us throughout our life. Little bit of business & human nature knowledge is forcing me to write few of my thoughts (Please ignore them if they doesn’t make any sense). Ask yourself who is worst affected by all this mayhem. Is it u & me (employees), Govt or Satyam & Ramalingaraju ?. My conviction says that employees of any MNC are associated to that company as long as they don’t have any better option, the best thing government can do for a company is to keep itself away from it. But there was a visionary who created wealth for a nation for 20 years, the only thing that cannot be separated from Satyam for these 20 years & ahead also if Satyam remains was\is a name called “Ramalinga Raju”. Fortunately I got some 15 min of time talking to him when i was an ELTP. He’s much softer than we see him. Imagine what would be going on in his mind when he was writing yesterday’s letter accepting all the things which he did only to save his company. All have made him scapegoat for what has happened & left the company keeping their integrity intact. He was cursed badly for putting the money of a public limited company into his family driven company but it only now clear that how he was transferrring the risk from 50,000 people to his two sons & his known-integrity.

The worst which can happen to we the employees is that we are out of our current job, jobless for time being & then again getting a job which we deserve & our families will be worried for us(as they are always). But a relatively bitter truth will be for the Raju-family who will be annoyed for ages & will be treated as miscreants by those who do not know the truth or more about Greedy investors & money market. And the truth is that he has not stolen some thousand crores rupees into his own pocket, it was a bubble he created which busted. (And every other company on earth does so, being wary of not getting trapped)



One more thing which annoys me is does a philanthropist guy deserve this disgraceful exit ? I really feel sad about the way he’s been portrait in the media. Our rustic fellows have already started comparing him with Harshad Mehta. Tell me any incident in corporate India where any chairman has dared to confess such irregularities in his own firm. And believe me it takes hell lot of guts to accept all this publicly. And as I read the news today morning it was published there that even his community members have suggested him not to tell anything and later on he can play with the Indian laws as every politician does in India. But as he mentioned it was all deep regret in his conscience which lead him to confess all this.

I am not at all saying that he’s totally innocent and unaware of what’s been going there but a person who has started a journey called Satyam 20 yrs ago with few associates and made it 4th largest IT Company in India, done all this for sake of his 50000 Satyam family members. In the end i’ll ask only one question to all of my friends,” for whom he has created this bubble, if it was he who was going bankrupt? ”
Satyam will get back up from all of those

80,000 families who got benefited in past 20 years.

from all 30 villeges under By Raju foundation.

From 1/2 million homeless children who are in Satyam foundation camp and under care indirectly.

From all under developed nations where Satyam Foundation has worked enormously shoulder to shoulder with local NGOs.

Jointly written by
Piyush Sinha & An Unknown Non-Satyamite

Satyam fights back!!!!!!
Long live Esprite de Satyam.
Long live the spirit of India!!
Jai Hind.

[taken from http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2009/01/07/satyam-indias-enron/#comments]