Blog » Archive for September, 2007

Web 3.0 & Gannett (Part 5)

Fri, Sep 28, 2007

Conclusion Gannett realizes that consumers are changing the way they access content every day, and advertisers are working hard to find the best ways to reach them. The Company is looking at enhancing its core assets and building digital businesses, designed to provide solutions for both consumers and advertisers. The building of the various digital [...]

Are Analysts Misleading Investors on Qualcomm?

Thu, Sep 27, 2007

Vijay Nagarajan has done a number of pieces on Qualcomm over the last few weeks, and it is time to take a look at how the stock is doing. Here is the chart: For recap, here are Vijay’s pieces:

Sharat Sharan’s On24: Lead Generation Through WebCasting (Part 4)

Thu, Sep 27, 2007

SM: What stage are you at now? Revenue? Profitability? Traffic? Customers? SS: We’re at a very good stage. We have more than 600 global organizations in publishing, technology, life sciences, government, and financial services that rely on us. These are large companies that have a need for our solutions, such as Business Objects, Cisco Systems, [...]

Enterprise Mashups

Thu, Sep 27, 2007

A Mashup is a web application that combines data from more than one source into a single integrated tool. That is the Wikipedia definition anyway. For those who have been around the industry long enough, this may sound like a Portal. It is. Except, it uses a bunch of newer web 2.0 technologies like Ajax, [...]

Web 3.0 & Gannett (Part 4)

Thu, Sep 27, 2007

Acquisition Targets Gannett doesn’t have much of a presence in the Online Personals or Dating space. It could look at acquiring a site as a large portion of the newspaper personals have shifted from print to the Internet and Gannett should preserve its share of the pie. Gannett could consider acquiring sites like, OkCupid, Engage, [...]

Online Video Beneficiaries: Foundry

Wed, Sep 26, 2007

I have recently covered Cisco, 3Com, Alcatel, Juniper, Nortel, Polycom, and Extreme in a series of posts on Online Video Beneficiaries. Here is another one in the series, on Foundry. Foundry Networks, Inc.(NASDAQ: FDRY) is a leading provider of high-performance enterprise and service provider switching, routing, security, and Web traffic management solutions. An increasing number [...]

Sharat Sharan’s On24: Lead Generation Through WebCasting (Part 3)

Wed, Sep 26, 2007

SM: How big is the market? How do you calculate TAM? What is your business model? SS: When looking at adoption of broadband worldwide, combined with the need for global communications, the TAM is large. Over the last few years, we have seen webcasting emerge as a key tactic for corporate marketing initiatives and lead [...]

India is Outsourcing Outsourcing

Wed, Sep 26, 2007

Have a look at this article from NY Times: Outsourcing Works, So India is Exporting Jobs. :: MYSORE, India — Thousands of Indians report to Infosys Technologies’ campus here to learn the finer points of programming. Lately, though, packs of foreigners have been roaming the manicured lawns, too. Many of them are recent American college [...]