Kapil's Korner

This morning I picked up an article from my twitter timeline. Google Says It Can Predict Which Films Will Be Huge Box-Office Hits In a study called “Quantifying Movie Magic with Google Search,” Google says searches for movie trailers a month prior to a film release help predict opening weekend sales. Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/google-study-can-predict-success-of-movies-2013-6#ixzz2VnfzR6Nn Not sure [...]

Last month I had the opportunity to discuss and share my thoughts about the growing digital opportunities in the Sub-Sahara Africa region with Dennis Mbuvi of CIO East Africa. Here is the interview as featured in the April issue. CIO East Africa – April 2013 Interview from Kapil Bhatia

Often, there are thoughts, ideas or just sparks which are either already produced somewhere in the world or are yet to be done. Monday Mumble is an attempt to share that blurb and collect an opinion. Internet has taken over our lives to a good extent. And one of it’s victims was supposed to be [...]

Over the Easter Weekend I traveled to Bahrain to visit the family. While there got the opportunity to visit the Bahrain Boat Show.  There were boats and some fancy cars and bikes too. Some photos from the evening.

This morning I attended the #MobileBytes session organised by InMobi at the beautiful Startup Garage Nairobi. Most of the data was rather obvious, but I think I pulled out some of the bits which grabbed my attention.

When you meet somebody for the first time, most often the conversation starter is “So, what do you do?” How do you reply? “I am a banker.” “I am an interior designer.” How often do you meet somebody who says… … I help people accomplish their financial goals. … I design beautiful homes. We are [...]

    My daddy strongest … He was our google to all those silly questions we had as kids or then maybe even now. He built our home library full of interesting books before we had the luxury of browsing Crossword. He taught us money management before we could spell Warren Buffet. He was our [...]

Client Servicing. Often a thankless job. At times the road with a dead-end. The cause of burn-out and makes many jump from the agency to the client side. Like many others I started my advertising career as a client servicing executive. I think its one of the most exciting jobs where you get to know [...]

This is a summary of my experience on researching and successfully making an application for a new passport booklet since I had exhausted the pages of my old passport. Getting Started As the need to apply for a new passport came up, I started talking to friends & family back in India to figure out [...]

This month we finish about 9 months since we moved to Nairobi. But friends and family are yet confused on which part of the world is this place. No complaints. I was’t very good with geography in school myself. So here is a ready reckoner on understanding the geography of where we live and more [...]