According to a study by Frost and Sullivan, India is the fastest growing market for electronic products in the world with consumption expected to grow to $363 billion by 2015 from $28 billion in 2005. India will account for 11% of the global electronics market by 2015, compared to 1.8% in 2005. India will also
Harper Collins announces an investment in NewsStand this week to enhance its digital efforts. This draws attention of book lovers and passionate readers to the future of Books. Some of the more successful book projects recently have been the blockbuster Harry Potter series and the Da Vinci Code franchise, as well as the literary successes
Red Herring included the possibility of a buy-out of Yahoo! this year among its top predictions. ‘Business Week’ rated Terry Semel recently as one of the highest paid chief executives with one of the worst returns to shareholders. And yet, I have said it for a long time, that Yahoo! is a superbly underleveraged asset
After Personal Computing, Film, Music, Steve Jobs is now tackling the Cellular Phone business, and with such aplomb, that one wonders why the SEC and the media would not simply leave him alone to do his thing … work his magic, wave his wand, think, feel, play … whatever it is that gives him the
Imagine you are a venture capitalist, and some little punk entrepreneur comes in and presents a business plan that projects that little kids would be adopting virtual pets. Instead of parents having to clean poop and puke, when children come calling for a chocolate lab puppy, they would introduce the little ones to virtual pets.
What is clear is that shareholders pay the price. by Dominique Trempont, Guest Author Hundreds of public companies that have reported “improper dating” of thousands of stock option grants over the last decade. Dozens of high visibility CEOs, CFOs and general counsels have either resigned or been fired as a result. The temptation is to
A while back, I wrote a popular series called Concept Arbitrage, about ideas that have been successful in America, and have potential in India. Here is the summary of that series from last June. I want to point you, now, to a set of ideas that have been gaining traction as content-community digital media properties
At the conclusion of my post Blogging: Time vs. Money, I said that I would write about how I see blogging networks evolving in the future. It seems to me that many of us are in this zone of time versus money trade-off wrt blogging, and don’t have the time to do all the functions