Vodafone takes the battle to the mobile phone vendors
A few months back one of analyst friends asked me whether it is possible for the mobile service provider to create their own App Stores and be successful. My opinion to him was they can do it or rather...
View ArticleSwami Viekananada and John Rockefeller
When visiting Chicago, Swami Vivekananda stayed in the house of a businessman who was an associate of John D. Rockefeller. Many times had Mr. Rockefeller heard his friends talking about an...
View ArticleCisco’s brilliant acquisition of Tandberg
Recent acquisitions by Dell and Xerox have something in common. Both acquired companies which are far away from their core competencies in an effort to find stable growth. They acquired predominantly...
View ArticleSalesforce.com into financial applications
Unit 4 Agresso has now teamed up Salesforce.com — the poster boy of SaaS to create FinancialForce.com that will produce SaaS based accounting, and financial management applications. Well SaaS has been...
View ArticleWill India ever emulate Finland?
I moaned about the state of broadband in India here. Based on some more research I found that the performance of broadband even in metros are poor. Reliability is an issue, committed performance are...
View ArticleThe Apple juggernaut rolls on
Apple’s juggernaut continues unabated going by the latest results. Thanks to the iPhone’s game changing play that’s elaborated here. A blow out quarter. Record shipments:Apple sold 7.4 million iPhones...
View ArticleDoes India need so many MBA schools?
India has over 3000 business schools and most of them are of questionable quality. This is about three times the number of business schools that exist in the U.S. and the difference becomes stark when...
View Article
