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Free Verified True Information Online

  Those with at least a basic gadget that can connect to the internet, are privileged to have an access to unlimited information available on the web. Everyone is a student who can learn many things in the Information Age. The challenge is how to filter that vast information so that what comes into our minds are verified true and correct, particularly if they have something to do with important / critical / sensitive issues. Since childhood I have been hungry for information and when I learned how to generate money at an early age, I used to subscribe to some leading newspapers and Reader's Digest. I am interested in current events and creativity of advertising agencies when they put their AIDA concept in print (get the a ttention, i nterest, d esire and a ction of target buyers) . Some of my roots were / are authors / writers and as such, it runs in my DNA . Writers read a lot to know more about life and their subject / s.  To come up with a newspaper, printed or digital or b...

Plastic Card or Cash?

This is Information Age and there is a Digital Revolution. Many countries want to be smart and to follow the wagon.  They want to have a cashless society as they see that this is the future. In India, as reported by Gulf News,  87 payment apps face an uphill battle to turn the country cashless . The key fin-tech players race against China in squeezing the use of cash.  "China has two (2) home-grown technology giants that dominate the market." Lifted from the same news online, India allows small and big players to take a part in the level playing field, with its multi-player or open platform business model.  There is the three-year old Unified Payments Interface that serves a single infrastructure linking all the country's banks to process digital payments in the shortest time possible and at affordable charges. It is managed by the National Payment Corporation of India (NPCI ), the overall institution for all retail payment systems in the country, that serves...