Toyo Tires is a New Premium Sponsor of AC Milan

Japanese tyre manufacturer Toyo Tires and Rubber has agreed to become a premium sponsor of Italian Serie A football club AC Milan.

The deal will begin immediately and run through the 2015-16 season.

Toyo Tires becomes the first Japanese company to join Milan’s commercial portfolio at the premium level. Fellow Japanese firm, IT equipment and services company Fujitsu, agreed a three-year deal to become an official partner in February. The two deals come after Japanese international forward Keisuke Honda joined Milan from Russian Premier League club CSKA Moscow in the January transfer window.

Gandhi, Kejriwal, Modi in war of words.

Here is the word cloud of these three leaders, about what they are saying in their speeches and public meeting.

Source: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-25740826

Sean Parker Launches Civic Startup To Disrupt American Political Engagement

Remember Justin Timberlake's character from The Social Network? He was Sean Parker, who in real life co-founded Napster, the computer program that illuminated to teenagers around the world that pirating the latest Metallica and Limp Bizkit tracks was possible outside of a tape deck. After his success with that venture and also as an investor of Facebook, Parker is pouring millions into a civic startup hoping to make America a more Democratic place.
Called Brigade Media LLC, the platform will look to tackle voter efficacy and turnout during elections at all levels in America, according to Politico. Though it's not said how exactly Brigade plans to do that, an SEC document filed Monday shows that Parker – who will act as chief executive and chairman of the company – and a few big-name associates, like Facebook's first Washington Evangelist Adam Conner and former LinkedIn SVP David Henke, believe enough in it to put $9.3 million dollars into the young startup.

via: http://inthecapital.streetwise.co/2014/04/14/napster-co-founder-launches-civic-startup-to-disrupt-american-political-engagement/

Brilliant ideas that were originally rejected

When Evan Spiegel, co-founder of Snapchat, floated the idea in April 2011 in front of the product design class for his final project, classmates balked at the idea of the impermanent photos.
Fred Wilson wrote a post about how he missed investing in Airbnb, one of the “best startups to come [his] way in the past few years.”
And did you know how Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak ended up starting Apple?
“So we went to Atari and said, ‘Hey, we’ve got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or we’ll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we’ll come work for you.’ And they said, ‘No.’ So, then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, ‘Hey we don’t need you. You haven’t got through college yet.”
Steve Jobs talks on attempts to get Atari and HP interested in his and Steve Wozniak’s personal computer.

via: http://thenextweb.com/entrepreneur/2014/04/14/entrepreneurs-shouldnt-shoot-bad-ideas/

Desi Brand: Britannia

Started way back in 1892 with an investment of Rs. 295, biscuits were manufactured in a small house in central Kolkata. Later, the business was acquired by the Gupta brothers and operated under the name of V.S. Brothers. In 1918, C H Holmes, an English businessman in Kolkata was taken as a partner and ‘The Britannia Biscuit Company Limited (BBCo)’ was launched. The Mumbai factory was setup in 1924 and Peak Freans, UK acquired a controlling interest in BBCo. Biscuits were in big demand during World War II, which gave a fillip to the company’s sales. BBCo celebrated its golden jubilee in 1968 and the company name was changed to the current Britannia Industries Limited in 1979. In 1982 Nabisco Brands Inc., USA became a major foreign shareholder. Ten years later in 1992, Britannia Industries Limited celebrated its platinum jubilee. The following year, the Wadia Group acquired a stake in ABIL, UK and became an equal partner with Groúpe Danone in Britannia Industries Limited.