Apps, Assets and More

GOQii (8th December, 2015)

Recently, i came across a US based fitness tracking app called GOQii, which is rapidly expanding in China and India. It combines a wearable technology (own wristband) with an accompanying app and a personal instructor who structures a fitness regime for each individual subscriber and follows up on it through chats, telephone calls and v-con...

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The Love of Assets (12th April, 2014)

Over the first two and a half years of my career, as part of the Asset Finance Group, I have had the unique opportunity to embark on field visits where assets we have financed are deployed and in operation.

Having been to huge shipyards and innocuous on-shore oilfields in Gujarat, on board Anchor Handling Tug Supply Vessels in anchorage at Mumbai and Paradip Ports, taken a tour of the tarmac and the ground handling equipment at Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport...

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Alma Mater - Part II (7th April, 2014)

As a student, i always hated the late - night Alumni talks, when corporate honchos who had graduated from college a long time ago, dropped in on campus only to be pampered by the Placement Committee, demanded an interaction with the students, intruded on your post-dinner-relaxation time / hanging-out-with-friends time / late-night-badminton time / fifa-counter-strike time, to impart tit bits of knowledge...

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Alma Mater - Part I (25th August, 2013)

Wow, what a packed couple of days its been! Thursday afternoon saw us at Paradip Port, on an Anchor Handling Vessel we recently financed, to be deployed for SPM Maintenance and Operation off the Indian coast. If some of those terms went completely bouncer, lets switch back to regular English..

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'What' Lies in Store (8th August, 2013)

Its been more than a year since Whatsapp entered my life, and is such an inherent part of it now, i wonder how people passed their time in the pre-Whatsapp era.

For the uninitiated, Whatsapp Messenger is a cross-platform mobile messaging app which allows you to exchange messages using the same internet data plan that you use for email and web browsing, available for iPhone, BlackBerry, Android, Windows Phone and Nokia..

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