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Update, July 15, 2013: Looks like I’m not the only one questioning Johnson & Johnson’s stand on license revocation as something that select media reported! Maharashtra FDA seems annoyed with the wording in the ad. too! Maharashtra show-cause notice to J&J India…
Recently, Medianama’s Nikhil Pahwa tweeted, some asshole from a startup called offering money to cover them. really pissed off. ? Nikhil Pahwa (@nixxin) June 24, 2013 I had something similar, but without the money part! I got the soundtrack of a new…
Earlier this week – Sunday night, to be precise – I lost the entire contents of my 8 year old blog called Milliblog. With an average of about 25+ posts a month since July 2005 when I started Milliblog, I had over…
Update ? June 13, 2013: Lemp responds with a press release (courtesy NDTV) Lemp Press Release by ndtvonline ? Original post ? June 12, 2013 Lemp Brewpub is all over the place online, I see. A lot has been written about the…
Last month, I had used SimilarWeb to explore the kind of traffic e-commerce websites get (besides media websites) from social media. However rudimentary the data source is (in the absence of a better alternative from so many e-commerce websites), the result was…
Yesterday morning, there was a huge flurry of activity on Twitter around one article (The people vs N.Srinivasan). On Mumbai Mirror. By Pritish Nandy. Yes, it was a very different piece of opinion on N.Srinivasan that took a larger view to the…
I will be moderating a panel in Exchange4Media’s event, India PR & Corporate Communications 2013 tomorrow. The overall theme of the event is ‘New media: friend or foe?‘, within the PR world scheme of things. My panel, within that theme, is, ‘Put…