What do you do when you have had a wildly successful career and are happily retired? If you are Carol Realini you spend some time doing global humanitarian work and then you start a new business venture! Carol, CEO and founder of Obopay, has found not only a second career but also a potential opportunity [...]
Mentor Graphics (MENT), the third largest player in the EDA space, announced their Q1 results yesterday.
Here’s my new Forbes Column, A Technological Fix For Education, profiling HotChalk. You may have read the interview I did with Ed Fields, HotChalk’s CEO. Another recommended reading piece while on this topic is Lucid.
By Vijay Nagarajan, Guest Author In the introduction to this series, I reviewed the company’s history and businesses. Let us now review the company’s financials from a more holistic perspective.
SM: To me 20th Century art looks like the ‘anti-beauty’. Is that reasonable? Today I look at the products people are lapping up and they are beautiful objects. Are we returning to appreciating beauty? BK: I am not going to disagree with you completely, although I will refrain a bit.
VMware (VMW) had hit a high of $125/share in October last year after his hyper-hyped IPO, and fell to $90 in November. I had recommended investment in the stock on a bargain day. With the stock trading at $65 levels, it has already risen 12% since the announcement of its results. It might still be [...]
On April 24, Motorola Inc. (NYSE: MOT) reported a weak first quarter that highlighted its pain. In March, Motorola confirmed that it will split its business in 2009 into two independently traded companies -Mobile Devices and Networks Mobility and Enterprise Mobility Solutions after Carl Icahn threatened to start a proxy fight. Earlier coverage is available [...]
SM: What is your interpretation of what is going on in Steve Job’s head that allows him to do something really interesting and leapfrogging with design every time? BK: I don’t think it is every time. Apple has cultivated a mystique of the ‘magic Job’s touch’. SM: He did look outside of America to get [...]
