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  1. Facebook fellowships for computing research: another win-win collaboration?

    Explore Article India Business Blog (Jan 8 2010) Social Networking

    Facebook fellowships for computing research: another win-win collaboration? Just two days back we reported on Yahoo setting up a hadoop cluster in IIT Bombay, and now we have news of Facebook coming up with fellowships to PhD students researching topical areas in computing that are relevant to Facebook. The relevant areas as per the Facebook blurb are:Internet Economics: auction theory and algorithmic [...]Related Photos (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Sandy Sandeep Gautam   IIT Bombay   Yahoo

  2. 2010 Is The Year Of The Smartphone Surge: Is India ready?

    Explore Article India Business Blog (Jan 7 2010)

    2010 Is The Year Of The Smartphone Surge: Is India ready? As per this Forrester report, 2010 is going to be the year of the Smartphone. The report focuses on how smartphones improve productivity, and how enterprises benefit when their workers use smartphones for supplementing their work. While it is indeed true that the smartphone revolution is primarily driven by enterprise segment and not consumer [...]Related Photos (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Sandy Sandeep Gautam

  3. Yahoo’s Hadoop cluster lab at IIT Bombay: a win-win industry-academia collaboration?

    Explore Article India Business Blog (Jan 7 2010)

    Yahoo’s Hadoop cluster lab at IIT Bombay: a win-win industry-academia collaboration? Hadoop, is an open-source project of Apache, for distributed computing over large data sets. One of the methods it uses is the famous MapReduce paradigm for distributed computing over large data sets that Google is believed to have pioneered.  Yahoo runs one of the largest Hadoop clusters- and it has one of the largest [...]Related Photos (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Sandy Sandeep Gautam   IBM India   Google

  4. US mulls startup founders visa to lure foreign entrepreneurs

    Explore Article India Business Blog (Jan 4 2010)

    Paul Graham , a Y combinator partner, had mused about startup founders visa, to be given to entrepreneurs who want to start a startup in US ,  about six months back and since then the idea has resonated with many in the US. The idea is simple. Today it is very difficult for a  foreign [...]Related Photos (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Sandy Sandeep Gautam

  5. Earthquake detection and response: Has India got a twitter strategy in place?

    Explore Article India Business Blog (Dec 28 2009)

    Earthquake detection and response: Has India got a twitter strategy in place? Twitter has been put to many unusual uses and the latest is the detection and responses to earthquakes in real-time based on the spike in tweets and their geo-locations. The US Geological survey (USGS), as per this BBC report, is trawling the tweets for keywords like quake and earthquake to detect earthquakes to an extent [...]Related Photos (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Sandy Sandeep Gautam   India Inc

  6. Adding real-time trending ads to the web: OneRiot at a time

    Explore Article India Business Blog (Dec 25 2009)

    Adding real-time trending ads to the web: OneRiot at a time OneRiot, a search engine for the real-time  web and developer of the PulseRank algorithm to discover trending content on the web, has recently announced its plans to monetize the real-time web by making available contextual  ads that are related to trending topics. They have partnered with a few partners including Digsby, a popular IM and [...]Related Photos (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Sandy Sandeep Gautam

  7. Indiagames to cash in on T20 Fever

    Explore Article India Business Blog (Dec 25 2009) Gaming

    Comment "Add playful passion to the festivity of loved ones by sending our splendid flower arrangements to UAE, tempting gift hampers ..." - anamika

    Indiagames to cash in on T20 Fever Indiagames, one of India’s topmost gaming destinations and platforms, is launching a new iPhone app called cricket T20 fever.   Desktop versions of the game will be launched along with the iPhone versions while the other Symbain , Maemo, PSP etc based versions will follow later. ‘Cricket T20 Fever’ is aimed to provide the most realistic (Read Full Article)

    3 Comments Mentions:   Sandy Sandeep Gautam   USD   PSP

  8. iPhone is the most popular phone in US: Nokia doesn’t even figure in top 10

    Explore Article India Business Blog (Dec 23 2009) Mobile

    iPhone is the most popular phone in US: Nokia doesn’t even figure in top 10 As per a Neilsen wire blog posting, for the year 2009 (jan-oct 2009 data) , apple’s 3G iPhone was the market leader followed by RIM’s Blackberry 8300 series. Not a single Nokia model features in that top 10 list, and I find that surprising.  Nokia was once a company know for its innovation  and [...]Related Photos (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Sandy Sandeep Gautam   Gmail   Yahoo

  9. India decodes human genome: a sign of good times for the biotech and healthcare industries?

    Explore Article India Business Blog (Dec 22 2009)

    India decodes human genome: a sign of good times for the biotech and healthcare industries? 7 years since the human genome was first decoded, India too managed to decode the complete human genome of a 52 year old healthy man from Jharkhand and join the elite list of nations  like US, UK, China, Canada and South Korea. Unlike the select club of countries having nuclear warhead capabilities, this achievement [...]Related Photos (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Sandy Sandeep Gautam

  10. Mobile Internet : compelling opportunities for emerging markets like India

    Explore Article India Business Blog (Dec 21 2009) Mobile , Social Networking

    Mobile Internet : compelling opportunities for emerging markets like India Stanley Morgan has published the Mobile Internet Report along with two accompanying slide decks that collectively highlight the key themes driving the mobile internet market and its adoption. All the reports are freely downloadable form their site.   The Key themes in brief are :Just like Mainfarme computing revolution was followed by mini computing and [...]Related PhotosNo related photos. (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Apple Inc.   Cisco   Sandy Sandeep Gautam

  11. Google to acquire Yelp- when will the local business review segment get tapped in India?

    Explore Article India Business Blog (Dec 17 2009) Maps/Local , Social Networking

    Google to acquire Yelp- when will the local business review segment get tapped in India? There is some news about Google being in advanced stages of acquisition talks with Yelp. Many of the Indian users may not be familiar with Yelp or its equivalent CitySearch as such services are not available in India, but mostly confined to US, UK, Canada etc. Yelp is a local business review site, that allows users [...]Related Photos (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   9.9 Media   India Inc   Sandy Sandeep Gautam

  12. LinkedIn sets shop in Mumbai; ties up with Network18

    Explore Article India Business Blog (Dec 15 2009) Social Networking

    LinkedIn sets shop in Mumbai; ties up with Network18 LinkedIn evidently has aggressive expansion plans for India.  It had recently announced that it had hired ex country head, India,  of social networking site MySpace, Mr. Hari V Krishnan, as the country manager for LinkedIn, India. As of today, the LinkedIn India’s local office at Bandra –Kurla complex, Mumbai, seems to be operational.   The Local [...]Related Photos (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Network18   Moneycontrol   API

  13. Twitter’s designs for businesses: one account, multiple contributors at a time

    Explore Article India Business Blog (Dec 15 2009)

    Twitter’s designs for businesses: one account, multiple contributors at a time Twitter has just announced its new developer APIs for its yet to be widely deployed service of allowing multiple contributors to post using the same twitter handle. In a way this is a game changer for businesses. Many times the twitter business account is handled by a number of people behind the scenes, who share [...]Related Photos (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Larry Page   Eric Schmidt   Google

  14. Is iPhone keeping millions of its users hostages and is thriving on Stockholm delusions?

    Explore Article India Business Blog (Dec 13 2009) Mobile

    Is iPhone keeping millions of its users hostages and is thriving on Stockholm delusions? iPhone has achieved a cult status amongst its users. It wouldn’t be hyperbole to call the iPhone enthusiasts as fanatics who would clearly not be amenable to reasons, but are more driven by a passionate engagement with their iPhone mobile experience. The same is true for iMac fans and apple has made it a [...]Related Photos (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Apple Inc.

  15. Entrepreneurs are born or made?

    Explore Article India Business Blog (Dec 10 2009)

    Entrepreneurs are born or made? We know that a good majority of trak.in readers is made up of entrepreneurs and wannabe entrepreneurs. Recently we had a guest post that argued that an MBA degree doe snot make an entrepreneur and earlier we had Arun reporting on the anatomy of an entrepreneur and what ar eth likely characteristic of an entrepreneur.Today, [...]Related Photos (Read Full Article)

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  16. Increasing mobile penetration in rural India: one-phone/multiple-numbers at a time.

    Explore Article India Business Blog (Dec 9 2009) Mobile

    Increasing mobile penetration in rural India: one-phone/multiple-numbers at a time. Comvivia, which was formerly Bharati telesoft, has developed a new virtual SIM technology that allows multiple mobile phone numbers to be associated with a  particular handset/physical SIM card such that you do not require a dual SIM device,  but can still have more than one mobile number assorted with the handset.  The technology that [...]Related Photos (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Sandy Sandeep Gautam   Comviva   Airtel

  17. The web meets world: Google favourite places, Sixth sense and augmented reality

    Explore Article India Business Blog (Dec 8 2009) Maps/Local

    The web meets world: Google favourite places, Sixth sense and augmented reality Google has recently announced the favourite places on Google, a project that enables and merges offline and online interactions for local businesses.It works as follows: the 100,000 local businesses in US, handpicked by Google, get stickers containing QR codes that they can display on their doors/windows/menus. When a potential customer scans the QR code using [...] (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Google

  18. It will rain android phones in 2010: Is the Smartphone revolution finally arriving in India?

    Explore Article India Business Blog (Dec 7 2009) Mobile

    It will rain android phones in 2010: Is the Smartphone revolution finally arriving in India? While Smartphones have been picking up in other developed economies, India which has one of the biggest and fairly advanced mobile networks (500 million subscribers), still lags behind when it comes to Smartphone adoption and penetration. Although  many Smartphones are available in India, but still the adoption has been slow,  mostly due to 25K+ pricing. [...] (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Samsung Galaxy   Blackberry   HTC Magic

  19. Google Public DNS- a ploy to get handle on the real-time pulse of the internet?

    Explore Article India Business Blog (Dec 3 2009)

    Google Public DNS- a ploy to get handle on the real-time pulse of the internet? Google has recently announced its own Public DNS system that will allow internet users the ability to bypass the ISP’s DNS servers and contact the Google’s Public DNS servers for resolving all DNs queries. First some background on DNS. whenever you type a web address like http://google.com in your browser, the domain name address (google.com) needs [...] (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Sandy Sandeep Gautam   Google

  20. Faster e-commerce in India: RBI issues new guidelines

    Explore Article India Business Blog (Dec 1 2009)

    Faster e-commerce in India: RBI issues new guidelines There are myriad problem as to why e-commerce is not taking off in India and we have discussed this issue numerous times below including the contrast with the thriving e-retailing business in US. Some of the issues, for the disenchantment with e-commerce in India, discussed in comments as well as blog posts, are  related to [...] (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Sandy Sandeep Gautam

  21. An online home for all: a luxury or basic infrastructure?

    Explore Article India Business Blog (Nov 30 2009)

    An online home for all: a luxury or basic infrastructure? While millions of Indians are homeless and do not have access to electricity, not to mention, internet; I was recently fascinated with this news form Turkey wherein Turkish Government plans to have their own search engine and to provide a unique mail address (and 10 gb storage) to each of its more than 70 million [...] (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Gmail   Yahoo   UID

  22. VCs, VCs everywhere, not an Angel to fund!

    Explore Article India Business Blog (Nov 26 2009)

    VCs, VCs everywhere, not an Angel to fund! How difficult it would be, for a great team working on cutting edge technology with a proven track record, and potential military applications, to raise Rs 20 lakhs in India? That is not a hypothetical question. That was the question faced by a team of 8 students from Delhi College of Engineering , as they [...] (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Delhi College of Engineering

  23. The synergy between Bay Area and India: what the future holds

    Explore Article India Business Blog (Nov 25 2009)

    The synergy between Bay Area and India: what the future holds Bay Area council economic institute has just released a 2962 pages long ‘Global Reach’ report on ‘Emerging Ties Between the San Francisco Bay Area and India’ and they have also made available a 14 page extract of executive summary [PDF] and both are available for free downloads from their site. The summary takes a [...] (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Punjabi   Sandy Sandeep Gautam

  24. Online retail thriving in US- when will it establish itself in India?

    Explore Article India Business Blog (Nov 24 2009)

    Comment "We deliver flowers, fruits, chocolates, wines, gift hampers and more gifts on same day all over Singapore. We are an ..." - suklanarayan

    Online retail thriving in US- when will it establish itself in India? As per the latest State Of Retailing Online 2009 report by Forrester Research , most of the online retailers were profitable and increased their profitability, despite the recession. In "The State of Retailing Online 2009," a Shop.org study conducted by Forrester Research, retailers noted that Web divisions grew by 18% in 2008.     I do [...] (Read Full Article)

    3 Comments Mentions:   Reliance Industries Limited   Sandy Sandeep Gautam   Forrester

  25. Foursquare checks-in to Mumbai: dawn of a new business paradigm built around location?

    Explore Article India Business Blog (Nov 23 2009) Mobile , Social Networking

    Foursquare checks-in to Mumbai: dawn of a new business paradigm built around location? Foursquare is a new social network service that has now become available in India (Mumbai) too, and it allows its users to check-in to various  parks, bars, museums, restaurants, whatever using their iPhone or Android Smartphone applications or by manually checking in using the mobile browser on other mobile phones. Another social network may sound [...] (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Sandy Sandeep Gautam

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