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The Best Value Automobiles

August 27, 2014 Leave a comment

wealthymatters Safety, fuel economy, utility, comfort and price are all serious factors to take into account when deciding the best value automobile. In addition, the amount that the vehicle will be worth once the owner has moved is a good way to judge value. After all, second hand automobile buyers are unlikely to go for a vehicle that is more trouble than it is worth. So a great way to decide on a good value automobile is to follow the Kelley Blue Book’s Best Resale Value Awards :Link

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Copy To Thrive!

August 26, 2014 Leave a comment

wealthymatters Players in the Rs 2,400-crore ,fast-growing ,Indian,online classifieds industry are freely ‘borrowing’ listings from rival sites in a bid to become the largest in their categories and attract funding. Only a few take the consent of advertisers.Not only small classifieds but large online classifieds players are also resorting to this practice.

The trend of replicating advertiser information is rampant across industries. According to IAMAI, jobs is the largest category in the online classifieds market constituting about 60% of the market share followed by matrimony (22%), B2B classifieds (13%) and real estate 7%.

Copying classifieds means saving on-ground sales staff, so a company can manage with a small tele-calling team, using cloud technologies, which scouts for listings across other platforms. Read more of this post

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Be Careful Of Buying Diamonds

August 25, 2014 2 Comments

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In the past few months, the diamond bourse in Mumbai and several dealers of the stone have installed a small, black machine in their offices. The little device, which can be mistaken for a laser printer linked to a computer, is one that separates the natural rough diamonds from the much cheaper synthetic stones.

The timing is interesting and unmistakable. At the time, the Winsome group, India’s largest bank defaulter (with loan outstanding bigger than Kingfisher’s),emerged as the world’s largest maker of synthetic diamonds. While in India, banks have directed forensic audit on Winsome and government agencies are probing the money trail following the Rs 6,500 crore credit default, Winsome has consolidated its position as a leading player in man-made diamonds by operating from its bases in Singapore, Malaysia and the US. Read more of this post