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C3CUBE initiates touch-screen kiosk entertainment revolution in India

During this IPL season, if you had walked into any of the major outlets of McDonald’s or Nirulas, the DT Mall Food Courts or any of 27 prime retail locations across the Delhi NCR region, you would have seen a crowd of young people engrossed in a futuristic, interactive touch-screen kiosk. This was the Dilli [...]

DilliDilSe.com brings a fresh take on the success of the Delhi Daredevils.

New Delhi, 22 May 2009 – As the Delhi Daredevils make their way into the semi-finals, one website is proving a big hit with fans as it celebrates the victories in a novel and unique way. Developed by New Delhi and New York creative hotshop, C3CUBE Multimedia for Coca-Cola India, www.DilliDilSe.com takes Daredevils fans into [...]

Creative Financing – the secret to getting the Gov to back your business plan

Every SME is looking for unsecured funding to help seed, restructure or grow their business – especially in a tight economy like today. One of the true unsung heroes of the American dream story for entrepreneurs before this current recession was the role that the Small Business Administration (SBA) played in helping small businesses get [...]

Being Creative: Or how to ride out the global recession

Unless you have been hiding under a rock, you would not have failed to notice that the global economy has gone into a spiral with the collapse of major financial institutions in the US, painfully high oil prices and unstable global markets all leading to a worldwide economic recession. The Indian economy too has not [...]

“Cool” Indian Architect profiled in UK Guardian

One of India’s true green architects Manit Rastogi of MD Morphogenesis has just been profiled in the London Guardian newspaper. Rastogi’s work – which includes the hull shaped headquarters for Ernst & Young in Gurgaon – has been recognized for being “cool” in more ways than one…
In a sizzling property market, architect Manit Rastogi [...]

The State of Indian Design

Business Week, the international business magazine has done an interesting article – reflecting its current fascination with India as I am sure subscriptions must be climbing here – analyzing the the state of the Indian Graphic Design industry and the growing demand for talent, ideas and education. According to the article by Eliza Williams:
For a [...]

Reality Check: Web 2.0 a non-starter in Indian market

According to the Business Standard and research firm IDC, the majority of Indian Web 2.0 sites have no real business model and are struggling for both revenues and investments:
It’s a shiny, new dance floor, but how many can dance? The Web 2.0 market in India is still struggling for direction and funding, though the start-up [...]

Hope for all Creative Indians

In case you ever begin to feel that we creative types could never make it in a really big way or have a real impact on the world, there is comfort in the knowledge that India’s most pioneering and successful entrepreneur Ratan Tata trained as an Architect at Cornell before turning to revolutionize his family’s [...]

Chandigarh Loses it Architectural Treasures

While most of the residents of Chandigarh are critical at worst or ambivalent at best about their “modernist” architecture, the rest of the world has slowly been stealing its unknown treasures and making a killing at international auction houses like Christies.
Furniture designed by Le Corbusier and his cousin Pierre Jeanneret – both were responsible [...]

Brand Building in a “Web 2.0” World

Web 2.0 seems to be the new holy grail for all entrepreneurs and marketers, and while many experts sing its praises, an equal number do predict its demise into enterprise ether. The truth, as always, lies somewhere in-between. But one business area where Web 2.0 certainly has had a major impact is in branding and [...]

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