Cisco’s War Cry Against Microsoft

Last week’s acquisition of Webex by Networking giant Cisco is a clear war cry against Microsoft. What battlefield will this war be fought on? My take is, Collaboration will become the battlefield for these two titans’ epic battle. I have already written about this last week. Now, I want to add to the theme by

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India’s Power Scenario Brightening Up

By Satish Dey, Guest Author [SM: Business Week’s Cover Story on India’s infrastructure challenges are being addressed. Here is an update from Satish Dey on the Power issue.]

The Education Problem: Raj Reddy (Part 12)

After having dealt so much with education, we also examine some of the other issues which are of interest and importance to Raj. SM: We have spent a good amount of time addressing education. What other issues are on the top of your mind at this point? RR: The big picture where education comes in,

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Turn Around Series: Jerry Rawls, Finisar (Part 13)

Here we see some of the philosophical lessons learned by Jerry throughout this entire process. Words of wisdom if you will. SM: This is a great, great story. Personally what is your philosophical analysis or gains out of this experience? You have gone up and down and hit highs and lows, what is your take

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Tutoring Social Network

As you know, I am very interested in online education. This morning, a news item from Techcrunch caught my eye: a social network for finding tutors. In parallel, another news item in EETimes also caught my eye: MIT puts all its courses online. I work with the MIT OCW consortium, and have had a number

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Web 3.0 & MSN Money

We have been discussing the vertical segments that old media companies are losing to new media, and have focused on Personal Finance as an important category. We covered Yahoo from a Web 3.0 perspective earlier, and here we take a look at Microsoft’s offering.

NYT: Print to Digital

The New York Times Company is a leading media company that publishes popular newspapers The New York Times, The International Herald Tribune, The Boston Globe and 15 other daily newspapers. The Company also owns nine network-affiliated television stations and two New York radio stations. NYT owns approximately 35 Web sites, including NYTimes.com, Boston.com and About.com.

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It’s IPO’clock, European Time

By Jörg Überla, Guest Author The successful IPO of social networking platform XING on Frankfurt stock exchange last December was like a big bang. Why? First and foremost, it was the first real Web 2.0 IPO in Germany (and among the first worldwide), which proved that the market is open towards new ideas. Secondly, backed

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