I have made no secret of the fact that I am an avid Harry Potter fan. I consider the series a modern epic in the same sense that Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, Valmiki’s Ramayana, or Vyasa’s Mahabharata are epics. And, aided by modern rich media consumption channels, the Harry Potter films, merchandise, games, and websites have already built a $15 billion global franchise around this marvelous literary phenomenon that British author J. K. Rowling gave birth to. It has transformed children’s reading habits and their scope of imagination. And it has launched perfectly rational adults into flights of fancy that were perhaps inconceivable once upon a time. Read the full article »
Even as Nokia falters, as we will see this week in Tech Stocks, Microsoft continues to improve its mobile strategy. Click on the full article to read more. Read the full article »
Mamoon Rashid and Siva Sanmuga are serial entrepreneurs who co-founded Telcan in 1997 followed by Callture in 2004. Both graduated from the University of Waterloo, Ontario, after completing their engineering studies. Callture is a Canadian technology company based in Ontario and is a subsidiary of Telcan.
Sramana: Mamoon, can you give us some context to begin your story?
Mamoon Rashid: About 13 years ago, Siva Sanmuga, Anton Mendoza and I were in our final year of engineering studies at the University of Waterloo. We had an idea about how to deliver international callback services. Read the full article »
IBM has had a presence in Africa for several decades, and as this week’s Tech Stocks points out, the company has been increasing its activity on that continent. Click on the full article to read more. Read the full article »
As this week’s Tech Stocks coverage shows, major companies such as Google, Apple, and Skype are rapidly moving forward with more products for online communication. As we will see tomorrow, Yahoo is still having a lot of trouble in comparison to its peers. Click on the full article to read more. Read the full article »
Sramana Mitra, Founder of One Million by One Million, will look at the current challenges facing India and the untapped opportunities in technology, technology-enabled services, rural and slum development, energy, infrastructure, health care, film and education. Author of Vision India 2020, Mitra will discuss start-up companies in India developing into billion-dollar enterprises over the next 10 years. She will also speak about her global initiative, One Million by One Million, which aims to help a million entrepreneurs each reach a million dollars in annual revenue and beyond by 2020.
Location: Silicon Valley Bank, 3005 Tasman Drive, Santa Clara, California Time: 6:00 p.m. check-in, 6:30 p.m. program, 7:30 p.m. book signing Cost: $20 standard, $12 members
Tech Stocks continues to expand its coverage. This week, we feature microblogging platform tumblr. Click on the full article to read all of this week’s posts. Read the full article »
