Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Pradeep Rathinam, CEO of Aditi Technologies (Part 2)

SM: Let’s double click down on each of the areas that you discussed. How much are you familiar with what’s happening in the world of small software companies – software companies, in general – using software-as-a-service to get out into the market with new solutions? One of the case studies that I have looked at

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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Rob Jewell, Founder and CEO of Spruce Media (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: A customer or lead? Rob Jewell: A lead, someone who has signed up for Living Social’s daily deals newsletter. SM: So, Living Social decided to go with your media buying team and technology over its own media buying team and technology to buy on Facebook. Would you talk in a more specific way

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It’s Time To Transform The U.S. Postal Service

By guest author Daniel Burrus The United States Postal Service has been doing poorly, financially, for years. With the advent of email and electronic bill payment, there’s been a dramatic drop in the use of the postal service, yet their expenses have increased. It’s thus no surprise they have recently announced big cutbacks to help rein

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Will Amazon Or Apple Buy Netflix?

According to MasterCard Advisors’ SpendingPulse, online spending grew 18% over the year in March, outpacing the growth rate of traditional brick-and-mortar stores. Online retailers Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) and eBay (NASDAQ:EBAY) also saw significant growth in their revenues. Amazon’s stock touched a record high, and recent quarter results surpassed market expectations, recording double-digit revenue and earnings growth. But the company

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Fifteen Years Of eCommerce

Almost 15 years after the advent of the Internet browser in the mainstream market, it is interesting to see how the major eCommerce companies have progressed. Each pioneers in their original niches, are today starting to step on others toes. Amazon’s logical progression will inevitably lead them into Netflix’ territory. They are already squarely in

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Catching Up on Readings: Hydro Alchemy

Since the last catching up list on April 26, you may have accumulated more backlog. What’s with the Yahoo-Microsoft frenzy? Here’s a quick cache of the articles since then that you may want to make sure you read:

Deal Radar 2008: Seventymm

I wrote about Seventymm two years back, as part of the Concept Arbitrage series. In this post, we will review how the company has progressed in the interim against its stated goals.

A Real Blockbuster Story

By Richard Laermer, Guest Author We threw Blockbuster into the collective dustbin years ago, along with The Mighty Morphin Power Rangers and Contempo Casuals. The glory days of Blockbuster are long gone … long, long, long gone. Once upon a time it was actually cool to have a Blockbuster card. That Cookie Monster Blue and

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