For the second holiday season in a row, American kids 6-12 are lusting for the iPad more than any other product, according to a Nielsen survey. For the 2011 holiday season, the iPad has increased its appeal with this age-group. Nearly half (44%) want an iPad this year compared to 31% last year. The second […]
U.S. venture capital firm Accel Partners has closed a $155 million fund, Accel India III, that will make seed and early stage investments in Indian startups. This is Accel’s third India fund. Accel, which has previously invested in 34 Indian companies, said the latest fund had attracted top tier institutional investors from North America, Europe […]
It’s one of the depressing aspects of movies that a disproportionate number of them focus on insignificant piffle. Like romance, for instance. Try as we might, we can’t get a handle on how generations of moviegoers can watch the same boy-girl love story on the screen for decades just because they bear different titles. Well, […]
For the next couple of days, y’all are going to be bombarded with articles on Amazon’s new Kindle Fire tablet. The 7-inch Android-based tablet is already in the hands of consumers and early reviews are kind of mixed with some not impressed with its Silk browser. The below chart from Indian market researcher Social Nuggets […]
The U.S. box office numbers for Ranbir Kapoor’s new movie Rockstar are out. And, hey, the numbers look pretty decent. For the November 11-13, 2011 opening weekend in the U.S., Rockstar pulled in $612,235 from 112-screens giving it a respectable average gross of $5,466. Rockstar was Ranbir’s 10th movie. The 29-year-old actor, who hails from […]
The best we can say about Rockstar is that we didn’t throw up and sully the movie hall as we usually do after watching a Bollywood film (like Bodyguard or Dum Maro Dum, for instance). As is to be expected of 99.9% of Indian films, Rockstar too is a romance. But this one comes covered […]