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Indians bag 2 bronze at Young Guns International Advertising Awards

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Indians won two Bronze and two finalist nominations at 2004 Young Guns International Advertising Awards.
http://www.ygaward.com/
Awards List

In the ‘maverick media’ category, Ambience Publicis has bagged a bronze for its work on Snehi, a Delhi-based organisation that works for the rights of abused children.
In the ‘Outdoors: community service and charity’ category RMG David’s Nests won a bronze for an innovative hoarding done for WWF-India.
Ambience Publicis has also bagged two finalist nominations for its work on Western Union Money Transfer in the print single and print campaign categories.

http://www.agencyfaqs.com/news/stories/2004/11/30/10367.html

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November 30th, 2004 at 11:33 am

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Indians on top at Commonwealth Vision Awards 2004

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India’s Neeraj Bhasin and Rupalli Mehraa won the first and second prize respectively in the 2004 Commonwealth Vision Awards, awarded in a ceremony held on friday 26th Nov,2004 at the Royal Commonwealth Society in London.

http://in.rediff.com/news/2004/nov/29awards.htm

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November 30th, 2004 at 11:12 am

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Ittiam Systems awarded the world’s most preferred supplier of DSP

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Bangalore based Ittiam Systems emerges as the world’s most preferred supplier of DSP based intellectual property in world-wide DSP Professionals Survey for 2004 conducted by Forward Concepts.
http://www.ittiam.com/pages/news/pres-rel-20041124.htm

Its an amazing feat for Ittiam made it to the top in just 4 years after its inception. Ittiam was founded in 2001 in Bangalore, India.

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November 29th, 2004 at 10:25 am

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Blogging with wblogger

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This is a nice tool, a stand alone editor to edit/post without ever explicitly logging in to the blog web site. This is a test blog using this tool. Nice and easy now to post a blog. Updating a blog is also very simple and quick.
http://www.wblogger.com

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November 27th, 2004 at 4:42 pm

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Top 100 Indian American firms generated $2.3bn for 2003

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The ninth edition of the study entitled “2004 VII Hundred” conducted jointly by the New York weekly News India-Times and Ventures International Inc says, top 100 companies owned or run by Indian Americans, generated $2.3 billion in revenues during 2003 and provided jobs to 18,491 workers. Productivity is at $124,000 per employee.
Details of Top 5
http://sify.com/news_info/news/nri/fullstory.php?id=13350582
Only 21 listings were from the software sector, followed by 19 for professional services and 17 for manufacturing.
The eligibility criteria for participating in the study:
1. privately held
2. controlled by (CEO,President) must be Asian Indian origin
3. Minimum sales of $1 million
Ninety-two firms had made it to the 2003 list, as per the 8th edition of the survey, collectively generating $2.2 billion in revenues, providing jobs to 18,337 employees. Productivity is at $120,000 per employee.
Comparing 8th and 9th editions, the difference is only $0.1 billion in revenue.
$2.3Billion looks good for India, though it is almost nothing compared to other Asian counter parts in particular. Long way to go.

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November 23rd, 2004 at 10:43 am

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