Forbes Column 2009: Entrepreneurs: The Silver Screen Beckons

There are good business opportunities in making high-quality movies. To learn more, read Entrepreneurs: The Silver Screen Beckons.

Can Social Gaming Save The Media Industry?

Media companies are in for an expected bad run. Advertising spending is down as much as 11% in the US alone, and is not expected to recover to pre-recession levels when the economy improves. Additionally, the market for content services and DVDs continues to be depressed, with consumer spending falling 4% during the quarter. I

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Vision India 2020: Elixar

I have always been fascinated by Pixar. “The Incredibles” enthralled me. “Ratatouille” mesmerized me. Apparently, they also seduced many others. The former, with a production budget of $92 million, grossed $631 million worldwide. The latter, with a production budget of $150 million grossed $621 million. I have asked, how?

Harry and Remy’s Blend of Edutainment

If you are one of my regular readers, you know that I am a huge fan of good movies, and am happy and willing to be swept off my feet to fantasy places like Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. This weekend, I experienced another such world, that of Remy the rat, who aspires to

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Pixar: Animation = ?: Online Shopping

The online world has changed in the last ten years from a basic user experience to a vastly more involved and integrated user experience. And yet, the online shopping experience is still fairly basic, elementary, and non-experiential. Beyond the basics, however, today’s experiential shopping opportunity online has become many times richer and more attractive. Broadband has become ubiquitous. Publishing tools are orders of magnitude more sophisticated, easy, and accessible, and visual merchandising needs to correspondingly evolve to the next level.