Deal Radar 2008: Takkle Tackling Socially

Takkle is a social network for high school sports, where students, athletes, coaches, and fans share their passion. Takkle has a strategic alliance with Sports Illustrated. Takkle allows students to create their profiles and upload their stats, photos and videos for college recruiters. In November 2007 Takkle raised $7 million in venture funding led by

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Time Warner’s Restructuring

Time Warner’s (NYSE: TWX) shares have gone nowhere during the past five years and shareholders have been crying for radical action. The Company has appointed Jeff Bewkes as the new CEO. He is expected to turnaround the entertainment conglomerate by taking some tough decisions. Here’s what I think Time Warner should do.

Financial Media Comparison Chart

I did some digging into the various business and financial media sites last night, and here are some stats. Alexa Ranks: (Yahoo! Finance and MSN Money are not included in this list, because I cannot find Alexa ranks for them.) * CNNMoney.com: 76 * Forbes.com 483 * Marketwatch.com 1,032 * WSJ.com: 1,043 * Businessweek.com 1,310

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Time Warner’s Ad Network Move

In a previous post, I discussed Time Warner’s digital media strategy. In this one, I will analyze their move into Ad Networks, via an investment in Adify, a small company providing technology infrastructure services for building and running ad networks. [If you are new to the field on online advertising, please read my interview with

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Timeless!

It has always irritated me endlessly – the quintessential Indian lack of respect for other people’s time, better, time in general! Here is Guest Author Satish Dey’s article: Let’s Have More Watches To Make Up Lost Time. Modern life demands that man should be strapped to a time-machine. Can you imagine managing your life without

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Stop.

“When I think of the titanic efforts I made to canalize the hot lava which was bubbling inside me, the efforts I repeated thousands of times to bring the funnel into place and capture a word, a phrase, I think inevitably of the men of the old stone age. A hundred thousand, two hundred thousand

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Perspective on Time

Last week, I was in Jerusalem for a day. My guide, Mishi, was a knowledgeable man with a Masters degree in comparative religion. As we walked through the streets of the old city, he walked me through 10,000 years of history – religious and political – and led me through the sites and monuments that

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