Monthly Archives: May 2008

Silence and the spectrum auction

The recently concluded 700MHz spectrum auction in the US has been in the news a lot lately. Everybody is talking about how Google “won” despite having lost . An interesting aspect of the process was that the bidders were forbidden from talking about the auctions until they concluded. In this post, I shall try to [...]
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Dumber or Smrtr?

It seems like you just can’t miss Deccan Chronicle’s advertising blitz in Bangalore. In case you don’t live in Bangalore or are too much of a safe driver to look up at the hoardings, here is what the hoardings look like: If you want to imagine how your news articles are going to look, take [...]
Posted in Economics, India | 4 Comments