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Thursday, 29 December 2016
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Wednesday, 1 June 2016
Snapdeal Plans To Scale Down Operations In Regional Offices
Indian e-commerce major Snapdeal is reportedly planning to scale down its operations in its few regional offices including the major ones in Mumbai, Bangalore, Kolkata, and Hyderabad. According to a report, which cited unnamed people within the company, the firm may even shut down its few offices in next 6 months if it fails to raise a fresh round of funding.
Snapdeal has been facing the heat of intense competition from Flipkart and Amazon for quite some time now. This new report follows the recent exit of Chief Product Officer Anand Chandrasekaran who was one of the most important senior executives.
According to anonymous category managers, account management executives and seller onboarding team managers at Snapdeal, the company has also asked many of its other employees to relocate to Delhi head office prompting them to resign.
In fact, the vendor and accounts management teams in Bangalore are already down from 85 people a year ago to 45 people at present. This is further indicative of the turmoil which might be going on within the company.
As per a senior executive, some employees, who were asked to relocate and failed to do so, have been given severance packages for two months.
In addition to this, some employees also left the company due to impossible demands of the company from employees regarding its performance improvement plan. Back in February, the company had reportedly placed around 200 employees on notice and asked them to go through a 30-day Performace Improvement Plan.
The people mentioned above also revealed that the company is now focussing more on its ad business. And this is indeed true as the company recently launched a new version of its ad platform to enable sellers to target buyers based on their online behaviour, geo-location, and purchase history.
However, a spokeswoman for the company has denied the reports of scaling down Snapdeal operations and leaving of employees.The spokeswomen wrote,
“We are relocating all our NCR-based team members to our Gurgaon campus, as the lease on other smaller NCR based locations comes to an end. The capacity in the Gurgaon campus has been designed accordingly. Any team members choosing to leave for their individual reasons receive all payments due to them per their employment contract.”
Earlier this year, Snapdeal’s parent company Jasper Infotech had raised $200 million from Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan and Singapore-based investment entity Brother Fortune Apparel.
However, given the huge losses of last financial year which rose to Rs. 1328 crore, the company is looking to raise much more amount of funding to sustain its operations and remain in competition with Amazon and Flipkart.
Snapdeal has been facing the heat of intense competition from Flipkart and Amazon for quite some time now. This new report follows the recent exit of Chief Product Officer Anand Chandrasekaran who was one of the most important senior executives.
According to anonymous category managers, account management executives and seller onboarding team managers at Snapdeal, the company has also asked many of its other employees to relocate to Delhi head office prompting them to resign.
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In fact, the vendor and accounts management teams in Bangalore are already down from 85 people a year ago to 45 people at present. This is further indicative of the turmoil which might be going on within the company.
As per a senior executive, some employees, who were asked to relocate and failed to do so, have been given severance packages for two months.
In addition to this, some employees also left the company due to impossible demands of the company from employees regarding its performance improvement plan. Back in February, the company had reportedly placed around 200 employees on notice and asked them to go through a 30-day Performace Improvement Plan.
The people mentioned above also revealed that the company is now focussing more on its ad business. And this is indeed true as the company recently launched a new version of its ad platform to enable sellers to target buyers based on their online behaviour, geo-location, and purchase history.
However, a spokeswoman for the company has denied the reports of scaling down Snapdeal operations and leaving of employees.The spokeswomen wrote,
“We are relocating all our NCR-based team members to our Gurgaon campus, as the lease on other smaller NCR based locations comes to an end. The capacity in the Gurgaon campus has been designed accordingly. Any team members choosing to leave for their individual reasons receive all payments due to them per their employment contract.”
Earlier this year, Snapdeal’s parent company Jasper Infotech had raised $200 million from Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan and Singapore-based investment entity Brother Fortune Apparel.
However, given the huge losses of last financial year which rose to Rs. 1328 crore, the company is looking to raise much more amount of funding to sustain its operations and remain in competition with Amazon and Flipkart.
Tuesday, 26 April 2016
Lucky or Chucky? Thai spirit dolls delight and disturb
Driving to a Buddhist temple on the northern fringes
of Bangkok, beauty salon owner Natsuda Jantaptim is
running through her youngest daughter’s likes and
dislikes.
“We sleep in the same bed together, she has her own
pillow and blankets,” she told AFP, her daughter
sitting quietly in the front passenger seat.
“We didn’t switch the air-con on two nights ago
because she was cold. In the morning, she likes to
drink strawberry milk,” she added.
On first reckoning, it sounds like the everyday
observations of a dedicated mother.
Except the daughter Natsuda refers to isn’t real.
Certainly not in the living, breathing flesh and
blood sense.
She is a meticulously groomed plastic doll, part of
the latest celebrity-fuelled superstitious craze
that has swept the country — much to the dismay of
the kingdom’s conservative military rulers.
Known in Thai as “luuk thep” (child angels), the
pricey dolls, which can cost up to $600, were first
popularised a little over a year ago by celebrities
who claimed dressing up and feeding the dolls had
brought them professional success.
Believers say the dolls — many of which are blessed
and have sacred scripts drawn on them by a monk —
contain the spirit of a real child and must be
treated as a living being.
The theory runs that those who look after their
dolls like members of the family will see good
fortune returned to them.
As a result, plastic dolls are now taking their
seats at restaurant tables, cinemas and even on
airplanes.
– Luck, magic and belief –
Natsuda, 45, lives with her very real 21-year-old
daughter.
But that has not dimmed her affection for the doll,
auspiciously named ‘Ruay Jang’ (So Rich).
“Since I got ‘Ruay Jang’ my life has really changed.
For example I won the lottery which I had never won
before,” she explained.
After praying for help from her doll, she added, a
friend paid back a significant loan after years of
fruitless efforts to chase it down.
Asked what she would say to those who think her
credulous she replied: “It’s a personal belief, I
cannot blame those who don’t believe in it but I
believe in what I worship.”
In many ways Thailand’s child angel craze is simply
the latest manifestation of a deeply superstitious
society that places enormous emphasis on warding
away bad luck and making good merit.
More than 90 percent of Thais identify themselves as
Buddhist. But the country’s Buddhism is known for
its syncretism, comfortably blending many animist
and Hindu traditions into daily worship.
Many Thais fervently believe in good and malevolent
spirits — and that offerings or the latest lucky
charm will ward off bad karma.
In the late 2000s a style of large amulet became the
latest “must have” item — often selling for
thousands of dollars each — following the death of a
popular police officer who claimed the charms helped
him solve a murder case.
The luuk thep craze appears to have divided Thais.
Some see it as a natural extension of their merit-
making traditions while others deride it as a
commercial ruse and symbol of the dumbing down of
Buddhism.
“I freak out sometimes when I see them on the
train,” admitted Lakkhana Ole, a 31-year-old graphic
designer from Bangkok who says she spots dolls
increasingly often around the city.
A poll this week by Bangkok’s Suan Dusit Rajabhat
University found two-thirds of Thais saw the dolls
as something positive if it gave them direction or
helped alleviate loneliness.
But the same poll also found that 72 percent of
respondents dismissed them as the hocus-pocus of
overly superstitious people.
– ‘Damn you, you idiot’ –
“It reflects that society is perverse,” Phra Buddha
Issara, a conservative nationalist monk, famous for
his fiery denunciations of commercialism with
mainstream Thai Buddhism told AFP.
“If you’re lonely… you can just go out and talk to
your neighbours, interact more with others, do good
things for public, help the blind, sweep floors or
grow plants,” he added.
Asked if he would he bless someone’s doll he
replied: “The only thing they would receive from me
is: ‘Damn you, you idiot.”
Issara’s criticism has been matched by Thailand’s
justice minister, a former general, and the
country’s top police officer, both of whom have
publicly fretted that the craze is getting out of
control.
Phra Ajarn Supachai, a monk in Nonthaburi’s Bangchak
temple has no such qualms. He regularly conducts
prayer sessions for luuk thep dolls and their owners
— for a donation.
“People began turning up with the dolls about three
years ago,” he told AFP. “Now we get around ten
people a week.”
Natsuda’s friend Mae Ning is a regular. Last week
she took Natsuda to chant prayers as the saffron-
robed Supachai anointed all those present, dolls
included, with a stick soaked in sacred water.
Mae Ning, an avid collector and trader in luuk thep
dolls, believes many Thais are looking for comfort
in uncertain times.
“Some people are stressed about Thailand’s bad
economy, its politics, their jobs and finances, so
they want something to attach to,” she explained.
“When people have the dolls, they feel that they are
happy just like they are in another world.”
Natsuda, admits many find her attachment to Ruay
Jang unusual.
“But honestly I don’t care because what I do doesn’t
cause anyone trouble,” she said.
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of Bangkok, beauty salon owner Natsuda Jantaptim is
running through her youngest daughter’s likes and
dislikes.
“We sleep in the same bed together, she has her own
pillow and blankets,” she told AFP, her daughter
sitting quietly in the front passenger seat.
“We didn’t switch the air-con on two nights ago
because she was cold. In the morning, she likes to
drink strawberry milk,” she added.
On first reckoning, it sounds like the everyday
observations of a dedicated mother.
Except the daughter Natsuda refers to isn’t real.
Certainly not in the living, breathing flesh and
blood sense.
She is a meticulously groomed plastic doll, part of
the latest celebrity-fuelled superstitious craze
that has swept the country — much to the dismay of
the kingdom’s conservative military rulers.
Known in Thai as “luuk thep” (child angels), the
pricey dolls, which can cost up to $600, were first
popularised a little over a year ago by celebrities
who claimed dressing up and feeding the dolls had
brought them professional success.
Believers say the dolls — many of which are blessed
and have sacred scripts drawn on them by a monk —
contain the spirit of a real child and must be
treated as a living being.
The theory runs that those who look after their
dolls like members of the family will see good
fortune returned to them.
As a result, plastic dolls are now taking their
seats at restaurant tables, cinemas and even on
airplanes.
– Luck, magic and belief –
Natsuda, 45, lives with her very real 21-year-old
daughter.
But that has not dimmed her affection for the doll,
auspiciously named ‘Ruay Jang’ (So Rich).
“Since I got ‘Ruay Jang’ my life has really changed.
For example I won the lottery which I had never won
before,” she explained.
After praying for help from her doll, she added, a
friend paid back a significant loan after years of
fruitless efforts to chase it down.
Asked what she would say to those who think her
credulous she replied: “It’s a personal belief, I
cannot blame those who don’t believe in it but I
believe in what I worship.”
In many ways Thailand’s child angel craze is simply
the latest manifestation of a deeply superstitious
society that places enormous emphasis on warding
away bad luck and making good merit.
More than 90 percent of Thais identify themselves as
Buddhist. But the country’s Buddhism is known for
its syncretism, comfortably blending many animist
and Hindu traditions into daily worship.
Many Thais fervently believe in good and malevolent
spirits — and that offerings or the latest lucky
charm will ward off bad karma.
In the late 2000s a style of large amulet became the
latest “must have” item — often selling for
thousands of dollars each — following the death of a
popular police officer who claimed the charms helped
him solve a murder case.
The luuk thep craze appears to have divided Thais.
Some see it as a natural extension of their merit-
making traditions while others deride it as a
commercial ruse and symbol of the dumbing down of
Buddhism.
“I freak out sometimes when I see them on the
train,” admitted Lakkhana Ole, a 31-year-old graphic
designer from Bangkok who says she spots dolls
increasingly often around the city.
A poll this week by Bangkok’s Suan Dusit Rajabhat
University found two-thirds of Thais saw the dolls
as something positive if it gave them direction or
helped alleviate loneliness.
But the same poll also found that 72 percent of
respondents dismissed them as the hocus-pocus of
overly superstitious people.
– ‘Damn you, you idiot’ –
“It reflects that society is perverse,” Phra Buddha
Issara, a conservative nationalist monk, famous for
his fiery denunciations of commercialism with
mainstream Thai Buddhism told AFP.
“If you’re lonely… you can just go out and talk to
your neighbours, interact more with others, do good
things for public, help the blind, sweep floors or
grow plants,” he added.
Asked if he would he bless someone’s doll he
replied: “The only thing they would receive from me
is: ‘Damn you, you idiot.”
Issara’s criticism has been matched by Thailand’s
justice minister, a former general, and the
country’s top police officer, both of whom have
publicly fretted that the craze is getting out of
control.
Phra Ajarn Supachai, a monk in Nonthaburi’s Bangchak
temple has no such qualms. He regularly conducts
prayer sessions for luuk thep dolls and their owners
— for a donation.
“People began turning up with the dolls about three
years ago,” he told AFP. “Now we get around ten
people a week.”
Natsuda’s friend Mae Ning is a regular. Last week
she took Natsuda to chant prayers as the saffron-
robed Supachai anointed all those present, dolls
included, with a stick soaked in sacred water.
Mae Ning, an avid collector and trader in luuk thep
dolls, believes many Thais are looking for comfort
in uncertain times.
“Some people are stressed about Thailand’s bad
economy, its politics, their jobs and finances, so
they want something to attach to,” she explained.
“When people have the dolls, they feel that they are
happy just like they are in another world.”
Natsuda, admits many find her attachment to Ruay
Jang unusual.
“But honestly I don’t care because what I do doesn’t
cause anyone trouble,” she said.
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Monday, 28 March 2016
World Road Race Champion Lizzie Armitstead Wins Trofeo Alfredo Binda
The world road race champion timed her challenge to perfection, attacking near the end of the one day race to come home more a second clear of runner-up Megan Guarnier, one of her Boels-Dolman team-mates.
Armitstead has only raced four times this season, winning the Omloop Het Nieuwsblad in the Netherlands last month before taking the Strade Bianche in Italy earlier this month.
She tried to make it a hat-trick in the Ronde van Drenthe last weekend but was forced out of the race some way before the finish because of illness.
American Guarnier was no match for a rejuvenated Armitstead's sprint finish but she was able to hold on for second ahead of the fast-finishing Jolanda Neff, who claimed third place for Servetto Footon.
Trofeo Alfredo Binda - final result:
1 Lizzie Armitstead (Gbr) Boels-Dolmans 3hr 11min 10sec
2 Megan Guarnier (USA) Boels-Dolmans +1sec
3 Jolanda Neff (Swi) Servetoo Footon +4
4 Emma Johansson (Swe) Wiggle High5 st
5 Alena Amaliusik (Blr) Canyon SRAM st
6 Anna Van Der Breggen (Ned) Rabobank-Liv st
7 Katarzyna Niewiadoma (Pol) Rabobank-Liv +11
8 Annemiek Van Vleuten (Ned) Orica-AIS +39
9 Lauren Kitchen (Aus) Hitec Products +1:06
10 Giorgia Bronzini (Ita) Wiggle High5 st
Also:
20 Dani King (Gbr) Wiggle High5 st
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Armitstead has only raced four times this season, winning the Omloop Het Nieuwsblad in the Netherlands last month before taking the Strade Bianche in Italy earlier this month.
She tried to make it a hat-trick in the Ronde van Drenthe last weekend but was forced out of the race some way before the finish because of illness.
American Guarnier was no match for a rejuvenated Armitstead's sprint finish but she was able to hold on for second ahead of the fast-finishing Jolanda Neff, who claimed third place for Servetto Footon.
Trofeo Alfredo Binda - final result:
1 Lizzie Armitstead (Gbr) Boels-Dolmans 3hr 11min 10sec
2 Megan Guarnier (USA) Boels-Dolmans +1sec
3 Jolanda Neff (Swi) Servetoo Footon +4
4 Emma Johansson (Swe) Wiggle High5 st
5 Alena Amaliusik (Blr) Canyon SRAM st
6 Anna Van Der Breggen (Ned) Rabobank-Liv st
7 Katarzyna Niewiadoma (Pol) Rabobank-Liv +11
8 Annemiek Van Vleuten (Ned) Orica-AIS +39
9 Lauren Kitchen (Aus) Hitec Products +1:06
10 Giorgia Bronzini (Ita) Wiggle High5 st
Also:
20 Dani King (Gbr) Wiggle High5 st
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