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Microsoft India Global Technical Support Centre (India GTSC) has appointed Thomas Payyapilli as Senior Director. In his new role, Payyapilli will be responsible for the growth and performance of the India GTSC, which is an integral part of Microsoft Customer Services and Support (CSS). He will oversee a wide spectrum of management functions such as customer satisfaction, fiscal improvements, talent acquisition, service delivery, quality and employee satisfaction. He represents the India GTSC as part of the Customer Technical Services (CTS) leadership that oversees strategic planning and execution for CTS worldwide. He is also a part of the Microsoft One India leadership team, which is led by Ravi Venkatesan and drives active collaboration to grow Microsoft business in India. Payyapilli had joined Microsoft in 1996. He was a key member of the team that set up the India GTSC in Bangalore in October 2003. Prior to his current role, he had led the Global Partner Services (GPS) team as Busi
exchange4media Staff Apr 2, 2010 9:08 AM
Alex Kuruvilla, MD, Condé Nast India, has announced the appointment of Divia Thani Daswani as Editor and Sunaina Talwar Khiani as publisher of ‘Condé Nast Traveller’ magazine in India. As is known, ‘Condé Nast Traveller’ is launching its Indian edition in October 2010.
exchange4media Staff Apr 2, 2010 8:27 AM
“Currently, we don’t experiment and are too cautious. The radio industry has to experiment, we have to diversify into differentiated content. There is enough space for all, irrespective of the number of channels. The unfortunate part is that we may be nine stations in the same city, but we are targeting the same TG and playing the same songs,” says Nisha Narayanan, Senior Vice President, Red FM.
exchange4media Staff Apr 2, 2010 8:26 AM
The latest edition of Characters India Loves (CIL) study by Ormax Media has sprung a few surprises for the Hindi GEC environment. For the first time, across the three CIL tracks, negative characters have made it to the list of the top 10 most liked characters. While Ammaji (‘Laado’) and Tapasya (‘Uttaran’) share the rank at No. 7, Krishna (‘Pratigya’) makes it to No. 10.
exchange4media Mumbai Bureau Apr 2, 2010 8:24 AM
Media Direction, the specialist media services wing of RK Swamy Media Group, has won business worth Rs 100 crore in the last three months. Les Margulis, President, RK Swamy Media Group/ Media Direction, said that the group was focussing on 20 per cent growth in 2010 and targeting clients with media budgets ranging from Rs 5-50 crore.
Pallavi Goorha Kashyup Apr 2, 2010 8:23 AM
It’s now just a matter of time when the Government will announce its FM Phase III policies. The Phase III rollout will see the addition of another 700 FM stations to the already existing 200 private FM stations in India. In the meantime, the Radio Investors Forum had recently met I&B Minister Ambika Soni and communicated the serious issues facing the industry and also regarding the FM Phase III policy. exchange4media finds out from industry players whether the industry is actually ready for the Phase III rollout.
Robin Thomas Apr 2, 2010 8:22 AM
Hindi GECs seem to be losing out on a considerable amount of audience due to IPL3. Last year, the Hindi GECs had seen a decline of around 10-15 per cent of their total viewership, media planners predict that the same percentage of viewership decline in GECs during the third season of IPL as well.
Khushboo Tanna Apr 2, 2010 8:21 AM
Most clients and talent tend to think we are a close-ended organisation. Hence, it does make us work doubly hard to convince our prospective clients and employees that we are a normal brand communications organisation with a worldview on the issues at hand and also their solutions. As a matter of fact, we are far more innovative in approaching solutions in a practical sense.
exchange4media Staff Apr 2, 2010 12:00 AM
