Like a gourmet chef who rarely eats out, Google Inc feeds advertising services to hordes of other businesses while skimping on its own marketing. The recipe has been extremely fruitful. While the Internet search leader has sold more than $30 billion in advertising since 2001, Google has become a household name without buying expensive ad campaigns on television or radio or in print. "It's almost as if they have this cultural allergy to advertising," said Mark Hughes, author of "Buzzmarketing," a book about unconventional ways to build a brand. "It has been an advantage because it has helped keep them cool. They have zigged while everyone else has been zagging." This advertising aversion has freed up money for engineers, computing hardware and other resources that fuel Google's search engine while leaving plenty of profit to keep shareholders happy and lift the company's stock ever higher. Some marketing experts view Google as the archetype of an Internet-driven age that has made it possible for startups like YouTube, MySpace and Facebook to permeate pop culture with little or no advertising.
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Police crack sex ring in chennai
0 comments Police broke up a sex ring on Wednesday at an ayurvedic massage parlour at Kilpauk and arrested four people. A police team disguised as customers went to the parlour and found a woman running prostitution there. During the operation police arrested a man (24) of T Nagar and three other women from the parlour. A case has been registered and an investigation is underway.
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NRIs send most money back home
0 commentsIndia has displaced China and Mexico to become the top remittance receiving country in the world, according to latest data released by the World Bank. Indians working in foreign countries sent back over $25.7 billion (roughly Rs 1,28,500 crore) as remittances in 2006, followed by Mexico ($24.7 billion), China ($22.5 billion) and the Philippines ($14.9 billion). To put the scale of the remittances in perspective, consider this: money received by India through this route is roughly the same as the country's total estimated annual expenditure on defence, or about five times the estimated expenditure on education in 2007-08.
Total income tax and wealth tax collections in the country are less than the remittances received. And they are over three times the foreign direct investment in the country in 2006. However, the remittances make up only about 3% of India's GDP. In several small countries, remittances are a much bigger share of the national economy. Thus, in Moldova, remittances are equivalent to 38% of its GDP. Other countries in which remittances are over 20% of GDP include Tonga, Guyana, Haiti, Lebanon, Tajikistan, Honduras and Jordan. In the Indian subcontinent, Nepal receives remittances equivalent to 15% and Bangladesh 9% of their GDP. Among the Indian states, Kerala and Tamil Nadu provide almost half of the total immigrants from India. These are followed by Karnataka, Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra and Punjab.
A study conducted by the Centre for Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram, showed over 25% of households in Kerala have at least one person working abroad. Sheer numbers and relatively higher skill levels appear to be driving the growth in Indian remittances. The World Bank study estimates that the number of Indian immigrants is about 10 million. Mexico and Russia are the top immigrant sending countries with an estimated 11.5 immigrants each. Interestingly, the bulk of remittances are being sent not by highly skilled professionals like doctors or software engineers, but by more humdrum workers, wage employees and service providers. Apart from increased international flow of labour, better means of transferring funds, like electronic transfers, are contributing to the rapidly increasing remittances. This is borne out by the fact that the business of wire transfer companies is booming, with estimated revenues of $15 billion in 2006, and up to 30% profit margins.
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Blasts an attack on democracy: Bhutto
0 commentsKARACHI: Former Pakistani premier Benazir Bhutto vowed on Friday to fight militancy after an "attack on democracy" by a suicide bomber during her homecoming parade killed at least 139 people. Bhutto was unhurt in Thursday night's attack, having climbed into her specially fortified vehicle just moments before two explosions ripped through crowds welcoming her back to Karachi after eight years in exile. The streets of Pakistan's biggest city, packed with hundreds of thousands of her jubilant supporters, quickly became a scene of bloody carnage. The campaign bus was scorched and dented. "The attack was not on me, the attack was on what I represent," Bhutto told a press conference in the port city. "It was an attack on democracy and it was an attack on the very unity and integrity of Pakistan." Bhutto pledged to defy "cowards" from Al-Qaida, the Taliban and other militant groups who had vowed to launch suicide attacks against her before she flew home from Dubai. "If it means sacrificing our lives, then we are prepared to risk our lives, but we are not prepared to surrender our great nation to the militants," said Bhutto, wearing a black armband in memory of the victims. Benazir Bhutto said that four suicide squads had been sent by Taliban and Al-Qaida to target her and that she had informed President Pervez Musharraf about "certain individuals" in his government who posed a threat to her life. In her first public comments in the wake of the deadly blasts on her motorcade after she returned to Pakistan on Thursday from her self-imposed exile, Bhutto told a press conference here that she was "not blaming the government" for the attack. "Nonetheless we need to have an inquiry including into why the street lights were shut... Our security guards were having a difficulty in identifying suicide bombers... because we could not see," she added. She said she had written a letter to Musharraf on October 16 in which she had named three members of the government who should be investigated in the event of any attack on her. Bhutto also said she had been informed that the "next attack" would be carried out by "placing policemen in the garb of workers of a rival party" near her homes in Karachi and Larkana so that her rivals could be blamed. Despite repeated questions from reporters, Bhutto refused to identify the three persons she had named in her letter to Musharraf. She only described them as "certain people, individuals who abuse their positions and powers". Bhutto said the people who planned the attack "are not Muslims" and that "no Muslim can attack a woman".
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Best-ever Billiard shot - video
Labels: hot, international, News, videos 0 comments1. This is really amazing, stunning performance - dont miss it.
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Airtel is now Vodofone ?
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Lost Love on Busy Road!!!!!!!!!!!
Labels: hot, News, pictures 1 commentsWho said only humans know what love is?
Yes, animals are more deluded because of their capacity of their physical body, but
occasionally some of them might be able show us the love that we have forgotten on
our 'busy road'. Just like this story.
this is real touching…
Hey, wake up! wake up!
A dog was knocked down by a car and died on the middle of the road. Later, another dog is
seen beside the corpse of the dog, he tried to wake his friend up using his leg.
Let's move to the safer side of the road...i will move you to the safer side!
When his attempts to wake his friend failed, he tried to push his friend to the side of the
road. But the weight of his friend was proven too heavy for him.
Anyone help, tell me what to do.
Though the traffic is busy and dangerous, he just will not go away from his friend. Just
stand beside his friend howling and crying.
A lot of people saw this incident and feel very touched. How even a dog can show his loyalty and love to his friend.
Exclusive: Kanthaswamy 8 min trailer / promo and stills
Labels: Celebrities, hot, Kollywood, movie, News, pictures, videos 0 commentsChiyan Vikram is back with Kanthaswamy..for all those who missed Vikram last year..here is the full thearatical trailer of his new movie Kanthaswamy
Kanthaswamy (2008) is a forthcoming high budget Tamil film directed by Susi Ganesan. Its been confirmed that Vikram and Shriya Saran are the lead actors in the movie. Vivek, Santhanam and Raghuvaran play other roles. The sources close to the unit say that Vikram dons the role of Robin Hood in the film. Upon release, it will be subsequently dubbed into Telugu as Mallana.
Details:
- Directed by Susi Ganesan
- Produced by Kalaipuli S Dhanu
- Starring
Vikram
Shriya Saran
Vivek
Santhanam
Raghuvaran - Music by Devi Sri Prasad
- Release date(s)- 2008
- Budget - 25 million
Kidney racket: Chennai doc made 100 crore !! - Video
Labels: hot, international, News 1 commentsDr Palani Ravichandran, the kingpin of the kidney racket busted by the Mumbai Police Crime Branch this week,
made a mind-boggling Rs 100 crore from illegal kidney transplants in six years. Police say he has confessed to more than 600 transplants, and charging anything between Rs 15-25 lakh for each operation. 
Dr Palani Ravichandran
"Ravichandran has confessed to having done more than 600 such transplants. He had been running the racket since 2001. We have also seized documents related to renal operations from the two hospitals where Ravichandran operated, and they support his confession," the investigating officer of the case, API Dinesh Kadam said.
On Thursday, the Income Tax department conducted raids at Ravichandran's residence and seized incriminating documents, related to his illegal money transactions. The Mumbai police Crime Branch too has seized several documents related to kidney transplants from the two Chennai hospitals — St Thomas Hospital and Bharatiraja Hospital — from where Ravichandran ran his racket.
“We still have a team stationed in Chennai, collecting evidence and looking for others involved in the racket,” said Kadam.
The Crime Branch on Tuesday busted a mega kidney racket being run from Chennai in which the alleged racketeers, including Ravichandran, duped poor people into selling their kidneys to rich Indians and foreigners, and kept for themselves the major share of the earnings.
The police now believe the racket is much bigger than they earlier envisaged, and there could be several people,
including some of Chennai's high-and-mighty, involved in it. “A racket running into over Rs 100 crore has to have its tentacles spread far and wide. It couldn't have been operated by a motley group of people for so many years without being detected,” said an officer with the Crime Branch. 
One of the victims of the racket shows the scar left from the kidney operation
Four years back, a Chennai daily carried a report about a man losing his kidney to the racket. Ravichandran’s name then cropped up as the doctor who had operated on the victim. However, no action was taken by the police. The victim too did not lodge a complaint.
The story so far
On Tuesday, Unit 3 of the Crime Branch busted a mega organ transplant racket being run from two hospitals in Chennai, and arrested five people including two agents and a doctor in the case. The racket was being run by Dr Palani Ravichandran, and the agents were identified as Brijendra Hiralal Bisen alias Sandeep, 34, and Mohammed Hanif Musabhai Mansoori, 45. The trio lured poor people from across the country into selling their kidneys to rich patients by promising them lakhs of rupees. The donors were promised Rs 2-3 lakh, but once the transplant was done, they were conned into accepting only Rs 25-60,000 while the alleged kingpin pocketed Rs 8-9 lakh. The gang had sourced at least 100 kidneys from Mumbai alone before they fell into the police net.
The donors were from Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and even neighbouring Sri Lanka, Myanmar and Nepal. They were lured by agents who worked for the kingpin for a commission. The recipients were Indians, and people from Gulf countries and some South-east Asian countries.
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Shriya with Vadivel in Indiralaokathil Na Azhagappan
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| Shriya with Vadivel! | |
  Shriya Saran who became the ‘numer uno’ Tamil actress after the stupendous success of Rajnikanth’s Sivaji, is now doing an item number in Vadivel’s Indiralaokathil Na Azhagappan, for a whopping amount! For the last three days the shooting of an item number choreographed by Shobhi and a scene featuring Shriya and Vadivel is going on in and around Ambasamudram, near Tenkasi. The producer of the film Seventh Channel Manickam Narayanan has pulled off a coup by managing to get Shriya’s call sheet for the film. Vadivel plays three different roles in this movie, directed by Thambi Ramaiah- "Indran", "Yaman" and a normal person. Art Director is Thotta Tharani, Gopinath is the cameraman. Sabesh - Murali has composed the songs and Yamini Sharma is the heroine. Cheers, BK | |
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"Vel" Starring Surya - Tamil Mp3 download -
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