Microsoft’s Online Strategy

Microsoft has been scrambling in many markets. Particularly, it has been scrambling in the Internet segment, with Google dominating the online advertising space, and MSN lagging versus Yahoo as a portal. I have said before, that the big money in new media is going to be in the verticals. Microsoft actually has a very good

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Web 3.0 & Photo Sharing: Synthesis

Photo sharing is one of the top segments online and the top 10 photo sharing sites in the US draws as many as 50 million users every month. According to Hitwise, 4.9% of all Internet traffic went to the top 20 social networking sites like YouTube, MySpace, Photobucket, Flickr and Facebook, making photo sharing one

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Silk Road 2.0

By Danny Cohen, Guest Author Globalization. International expansion. China & India. These are the big buzz words of 2007, and it seems that the Asian trend is only growing stronger. As the US market matures, many of the local VCs and entrepreneurs are looking for China as the next big thing, and mostly – the

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Story of an Entrepreneur-in-Residence, Raj Vaswani (Part 8)

EIR programs are all different, and with Foundation Raj was able to come in based on the recommendation of a personal acquaintance. Accordingly, there was not much in the way of a formalized agreement, rather it was a working arrangement which benefited all parties. SM: What were the formal vs. informal parts of the EIR

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Web 3.0 and Shutterfly

We have already discussed an overview of the photo sharing industry and looked closely at the leaders: Flickr, Photobucket and Kodak Gallery. Here we will take a look at Shutterfly’s offering from a Web 3.0 perspective.

iPhone: Countdown

Just 2 weeks left for the release of the iPhone. We have analyzed the eco-system in a fair bit of detail thus far. Today, I read a great review by an Australian of Nokia’s competing product, N95 which is not “a mere cell phone but a true multitasking, handheld, Internet connected multimedia computer that does

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Turn Logic into Magic (7)

By Dominique Trempont, Guest Author A strong brand generates strong differentiation, attentive and loyal customers, and proud employees. It incents creative people with the best ideas, products and services outside the company, to come team up with the strong brand and help them continue to leapfrog competitors. Strong brands tend to know what they are

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Heritage Hotels in India

Besides Real Estate, the Hotel industry is also booming in India. I have always felt, Heritage Hotels are a very good way to preserve and restore old architecture, as well as leverage them. India already has a heritage of doing this in Rajasthan and many other places. I would like to see this tradition continued

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