Revealed: The fake IPL player

The FIP has finally revealed himself. Its some Anupam Mukherjee and surprisingly he is not a member of Kolkata Knight Riders.

Anupam Mukherji, the fake IPL player, who revealed himself on Times Now says that the blog was 'a figment of imagination' and was an inspiration from a fake blog on Steve Jobs.

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The GuestQuiZMAster (GQM): Anubhav Chatterjee

ABout the QuiZmaster: Anubhav Chatterjee,working with T.I.Cycles of India(Murugappa Group) for the past 2 years in the area of sales.An inquizzitive person since my childhood got exposed to professional quizzing during my stay in Pune.Passionate about Quizzing,Movies,Music and a complete foodie.

Q1.The idea of this company was conceived by Mr.Pai in Germany in the year 1959. He found that car seat cushions were manufactured of rubberised coir. The manufacturer was importing curled coir from Sri Lanka.Identify the company that is being talked about?

Q2.The Indian brand takes its name from an invention by Baron Karl von Drais.Identify the company?

Q3. When Jaikumar Pathare and L Jaipal Reddy, two electrical engineers left their jobs with the Maharashtra State Electricity Board, they planned on starting a business of their own. From small government contracts they turned their gaze on to the clothing industry and after much thought zeroed in on, of all things — the men’s underwear business. “We were in search of a product and felt underwear was the right one. We felt there is scope because it required less investment at that time – some Rs 20 lakh. Of course today it is quite different,”Identify the company they founded?

Q4.On 25th December 1954 three dreamers, Mr.D.P.Gupta, Mr.P.D.Gupta, and Mr.R.K.Bansal in a small town in Punjab thought of producing an Indian brand of footwear to make basic necessity available to their countrymen. Soon the product and the name became generic to quality footwear. How do we know the company?

Q5.X is a male member of a shakti entrepreneur family. In 2000,HUL collaborated with self-help groups to expand its rural reach .It parternered women entrepreneurs called Shakti Amma from rural areas of Andhra Pradesh and 14 other states by offering them business oppurtunities.What is X ?

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Golbal IPO treands 2010

IPO markets worldwide are expected to accelerate in the second half of 2010, a reflection of a stablizing global marco aconomic enviroment and the many fast-growth business which seek funding for the next stage of their evolution.While robust Asian markets continue to drive global IPO activity. Europe and the US have also seen a resurgence of new issuances.

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Google's Acquisition Appetite

From Scores.org, a data-heavy Google(graphic) by Jess Bachman

PrePare Tata Crucible 5: News You Can Use

1. Virgin founder Richard Branson has announced the creation of a new magazine solely for mobile devices. Called Maverick, the magazine will take the form of an iPad app, and cover business, technology and travel.

2. ITC's Y.C.Deveshwar has been presented Global Leadership award by U.S.-India Business Council for his efforts towards empowering India's rural agricultural community and conserving the environment.

3. Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation(KSRTC) bags Golden Peacock Eco-Innovation Award 2010 for implementing ethanol blended diesel in over 1000 buses.

4. Kerala State Electricity Board is set to launch a free and open source accounting software, Structured and Real-time Accounting System(SARAS) designed and developed by the employees of the board.

5. Apple iAd set to compete with Google in ad market

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Star CJ Alive: - “Paagal hai kya?” campaign

Star CJ Alive, 24-hour shopping channel campaign is built in and around what their research team got in their pre-campaign response. Paritosh Joshi, chief executive officer of Star CJ Network, said, “In fact during the same research when people were asked whether they shopped from a home shopping channel, the most oft-quoted response was ‘Paagal hai kya?’ Thus out of this ‘Paagal Hai Kya’ response was born the ‘Paagal’ character – the madman with the crazy hairstyle.”

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Piaggio's Vespa to run on Indian roads again

Italian vehicle maker Piaggio on Thursday said it plans to invest 30 million Euro ($38 million) in a new scooter plant and re-introduce the iconic Vespa scooter in the Indian market by early 2012.

"We plan to invest 30 million Euro to set up a manufacturing plant for Vespa scooter brand in India,"

said Ravi Chopra, chairman of the Piaggio's Indian subsidiary, Piaggio Vehicles Pvt Ltd, on the sidelines of an automobile conference.

"We will launch the Vespa scooter by the end of 2011 or early 2012," he added. The new manufacturing facility will come up in Baramati, Maharashtra, and have a production capacity of 150,000 units per annum.

Reading Revolution

Andrew Pettegree has dived into the history of the book just as its future seems most uncertain. His new work, The Book in the Renaissance, came out a mere month before Barnes & Noble would announce putting itself up for sale, reigniting debate about the end of print.

History is what survives. One man's dustbin is another's potential archive. A narrow partition divides the hoarder from the scholar. With this remarkable book, Andrew Pettegree immediately shows gratitude to scattered libraries which have somehow kept scarce books, and pamphlets, absent from earlier surveys of printed books. Paradoxically enough, only with online catalogues have so many near-fugitive works become more apparent. Pettegree not only pursues Continental haunts but "the Library at Innerpeffay, tucked away up a farm track in rural Perthshire".
He argues in The Book in the Renaissance that the early printed book market turns out not to have been at all like what scholars previously imagined. Printers, pressed by the tricky economics of the new technology, relied not on the famous new Bibles but rather on cheap pamphlets and light literature to stay afloat. News turned out to be a profitable area for these early publishers. Scholars, meanwhile, worried that the new technology would not so much advance civilization as degrade it, flooding the market with cheap, error-ridden classics and a prodigious quantity of non-scholarly rubbish.

The Global Tobacco Trade