Last Sunday, Financial Express ran a piece titled ‘Brands, not celebrities, hog social media in India‘. The first two paragraphs go, In a clear departure from the global trend in which celebrities top Facebook page ?likes?, corporate brand pages dominate the social…

Heard of the Trayvon Martin case? Here’s a quick primer from Wikipedia (with some edits from my side – removed parts that are unnecessary to this post): Trayvon Martin was a 17 year old African American. George Zimmerman was a 28 year…

Yet another arrest, based on tweets, after last week’s imbroglio. This time, it involves a man from Puducherry who had allegedly tweeted that P Chidambaram’s son (Karti Chidambaram) had amassed more wealth than Robert Vadra. Yes, I know precisely what is going…

The action by cyber-crime cops in case of playback Chinmayi is indeed ground-breaking, at least in India. Globally, there are quite a few cases of this nature. The most famous one was during the London Olympics when a 17 year old tweeted…

Update – October 22, 2012: This is the TVC Acer was advertising for! __ Original post: It happened with SF Sonic car batteries earlier. Now, it’s Acer’s turn. In SF Sonic’s case, the agency behind the campaign seemed to have convinced the…