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Electronics Forecasts for India

Posted on Saturday, Jan 13th 2007

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

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eBooks Future

Posted on Friday, Jan 12th 2007

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

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The Yahoo! Turnaround Formula

Posted on Friday, Jan 12th 2007

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

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Stop Distracting Steve Jobs

Posted on Thursday, Jan 11th 2007

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

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Who Would Have Thought?

Posted on Wednesday, Jan 10th 2007

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.

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Stock Option Pricing: Sloppiness or Crime?

Posted on Tuesday, Jan 9th 2007

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

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Concept Arbitrage: Content & Community

Posted on Monday, Jan 8th 2007

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

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Blogging Networks

Posted on Sunday, Jan 7th 2007

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

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