“We are now in version 3.0 of music’s overall digital usage; first being mobile ring backs and downloads, second being streaming and the third being consumers expressing themselves using our music on open platforms,” said Mandar Thakur, COO, Times Music, which is part of Bennett Coleman and Co Ltd that also publishes this paper.
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How Spices Have Made, and Unmade, Empires
Spices were among the first engines of globalization, not in the modern sense of a world engulfed by ever-larger corporations but in the ways that we began to become aware, desirous even, of cultures other than our own. Such desire, unchecked, once led to colonialism.
Making sense of the New Capitalists
Your smartphone is the gateway for platform businesses to drive their hooks deep into your psyche and pockets, edge out traditional businesses, and reset markets. In doing so, they are becoming monopolies, the likes of which we’ve never seen before. What is fair play in this new world?