The world is quickly waking up to the power of the Indian customer base. The new Google Chrome ad on TV is a case in point. When Google Chrome first launched its marketing campaign in India, it started with an ad that seemed to be a generic version of what the West sees as the quintessential Asian consumer. It seemed that Google quickly realized that to make in-roads into the Indian mind space, it would need to revamp its campaign. And it did so with élan.

Today, the Google Chrome advertisement talks to the most powerful decision maker in the Indian home – the woman. It tells the woman that regardless of where her talents and interests lie, she can reach out to the world and find a place for herself through the rapidly growing internet community in India.

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Did you know that students receiving education online tend to outperform those receiving face-to-face instructions? This has been proven by a study conducted by the US Department of Education in 2009. Let’s delve into some more interesting facts. Approximately 80% of companies use social media for recruitment and out of this almost 95% of them use LinkedIn. Furthermore, Facebook tops Google for weekly traffic in the U.S. To honor the evolution of virtual social web Mashable organized the World Social Media Day on June 30.

The 2011 World Social Media Day

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