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Deal Radar 2008: Dimdim

Posted on Tuesday, Aug 26th 2008

Dimdim is a web-based conferencing service. Unlike other online conference platforms, Dimdim does not require users to download any client – a big win over the competing offerings from WebEx, Adobe, and GoToMeeting.

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Building Indian Mobile Banking: mChek CEO Sanjay Swamy (Part 4)

Posted on Monday, Aug 25th 2008

SM: When you joined, was it a commercially viable solution? SS: There was a big gap between the concept and a commercially ready solution. We had investments and a team and had to take the idea and build it into a large-scale enterprise system. That took 18 months.

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Deal Radar 2008: Telanetix

Posted on Monday, Aug 25th 2008

Telanetix is a communications service provider which offers telepresence and VoIP services to businesses. The company was founded by Thomas A. Szabo, Rob Arnold, and Bob Alford in 2001 and is headquartered in Bellevue, Washington. The trio had previously worked together on digital distribution provider Digital on Demand and multimedia solution provider RedDotNet (both of

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Building Indian Mobile Banking: mChek CEO Sanjay Swamy (Part 3)

Posted on Sunday, Aug 24th 2008

SM: When did you finally move back to India, and when did you decide to do mChek full time? SS: We moved back in 2003. Initially, I came to the conclusion that the business was not viable at that point, largely due to Indian regulatory issues. I ended up starting up the Indian operations for Ketera

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Vision India 2020: Harvard Medical School, India

Posted on Sunday, Aug 24th 2008

As our MIT India project gained its stride, and MIT won tremendous international acclaim for the vision and leadership it demonstrated in promoting open education, the folks at Harvard were feeling jealous. They wanted their own playground to contribute and to show off!

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How Jagmohan Dalmiya Commercialized Cricket (Part 4)

Posted on Saturday, Aug 23rd 2008

SM: Can you talk about 1993 to 2008? JD: That was a great time. It seemed that every day the situation improved.

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Building Indian Mobile Banking: mChek CEO Sanjay Swamy (Part 2)

Posted on Saturday, Aug 23rd 2008

SM: What types of positions did you hold at Integrated Systems? SS: I was with them for seven years and worked in a variety of roles. I started off in customer support, then moved on to training, international sales, domestic sales, product development, and marketing.

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Will The Real John Edwards Sit Down?

Posted on Saturday, Aug 23rd 2008

By Richard Laermer, Guest Author Everyone act surprised: John Edwards, the handsome, millionaire, politician attorney wunderkind, stepped outside of his marriage. Wow. Let’s crucify him! He had an extramarital affair with some videographer, he might well be a baby daddy, the media is going ape-shit, his wife is terminally ill.

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