Deal Radar 2008: Bill.com

Bill.com is targeted towards small and medium sized businesses, their accountants and bookkeepers, to help them send, receive, route, pay and store bills. The company recently changed its name from CashView.

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Bringing Banking To The Cell Phone Masses : Obopay CEO Carol Realini (Part 5)

SM: Can you deposit into the cell phone account? CR: You can’t do that and nobody has asked us for that. Behind the scenes the money is always in a bank. When I send you money you as the user have to make a decision. Do you want to keep the money on the phone

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ST Microelectronics: Valuation

By Vijay Nagarajan, Guest Author I value ST Microelectronics at just under $15 per share. This is about 30% more than its current value. Its strengths include its broad portfolio, its position in the strengthening European block and its resultant wireless business outlook. The operating constraints caused by STM’s geopolitical ties are growth deterrents. Its

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Deal Radar 2008: PayCycle

PayCycle provides online payroll services for small businesses and for the accounting professionals who serve them. Their mission is to make paper-based payroll obsolete. Using a unique Do-It-With-You model, they guide users through the entire payroll procedure online – from paychecks to W-2s. The company has highly experienced professionals who have previously developed products like

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Doerr and his White Male Nerds

I saw this line in the San Francisco Chronicle recently: John Doerr likes to invest in “white male nerds who’ve dropped out of Harvard or Stanford, and they have absolutely no social life.” Sad.

Bringing Banking To The Cell Phone Masses : Obopay CEO Carol Realini (Part 4)

SM: You were able to recognize this as a rudimentary structure which could support banking … CR: Exactly. I just said, “Wow, there you have it! If we could just generalize the value being put into all of those phones we would have a banking system!” That type of banking system could reach places like

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ST Microelectronics: Wireless Business

By Vijay Nagarajan, Guest Author The JV with NXP has given STM the scale to succeed in the mobile wireless space. Putting its weight behind the convergence movement, the company plans to leverage its full suite of wireless solutions to enable the advanced mobile devices coming out of the Nokia stables among others. Let us

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Vision India 2020: Darjeeling

Our family has long been a connoisseur of Darjeeling tea. Growing up in Bengal, it is hard not to be. Later on, when I started living in the San Francisco Bay Area, I got to experience the cult of wine in Napa Valley and the surrounding wine countries. One September, I even worked in a

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