“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”— Albert Einstein |
It has been a bit of a logistical nightmare these last few days …
I had to make a quick trip to India to attend a funeral. In the midst of travel, mourning, and juggling various professional and family commitments, our website was suspended due to “too much traffic.” It’s most certainly a welcome problem, [...]
Alibaba.com (HKSE: 1688), China’s leading B2B e-commerce company, announced its first quarter results early last month. Revenue for the quarter increased 53.2% to RMB680 million (~ $99 million) and EPS rose 118.6% to HK$6.47 (~ $0.93) for the year.
SM: My position on this dichotomy between content destination and ad network is that in the future, all media companies will have to do both.
SA: We believe we are redefining what a media company is. We epitomize what you just said. All media companies have to recognize that pre-web 2.0, you could own and control [...]
Professor Raj Reddy at Carnegie Mellon University first urged me to look at micro-franchise as a vehicle for economic development. Today, micro-finance has become a world-renowned phenomenon, especially with Dr. Yunus’ Nobel Prize two years back. [You can read my interview with Raj here.]
By Richard Laermer, Guest Author
Besides writing the stories that Blade Runner, Total Recall, Minority Report, Paycheck and A Scanner Darkly were all based upon, Philip K. Dick was also known for his own reality-bending brand of social commentary. His observation that “reality is whatever refuses to go away when I stop believing in it” is [...]
By Vijay Nagarajan, Guest Author
We recently evaluated Infineon’s industrial and automotive business and its wireline communications business. Let’s now take a quick look at its wireless communications business, which has been in the news for the past year due to the company’s presence in the iPhone.
SM: I always like it when a pioneering company takes a new approach with a solid business model already in place.
SA: I will tell you something about Glam’s history we have not talked about before. Most startups come to a decision point in the first two or three years after launch, where the original vision [...]
Accenture (ACN) reported their Q3 earnings yesterday, and they don’t seem to be finding current economic conditions a challenge.
