Catching Up: What’s Next For Chipmakers?

We’ve entered the smartphone era, and in his most recent series, guest author Nalini Kumar Muppala assesses what the changing mobile device landscape will mean for chipmakers Intel and ARM. Find these and all of the week’s posts by clicking on the full article. >>>

Teaching English to MNC Workforces: GlobalEnglish CEO Deepak Desai (Part 4)

SM: When you enter a global corporation on a local pilot program, how big are those deals?

DD: The pilot can be a two to three months for a couple of hundred employees. We are not trying to prove the solution works, because we know it works. We just have to prove that it works for them. We know that if we do it right, we can accomplish that. >>>

Food Entrepreneurs: Sugardaddy’s

By Guest Author Erika Valdez

Brownie lovers, this is for you! Our food entrepreneur series continues with the story of Mark Ballard and Tom Finney, the co-founders and co-CEOs of Sugardaddy’s Sumptuous Sweeties, an award-winning company that has redefined the “cozy, American classic brownie into a truly luxury dessert indulgence, gifting, and special occasion experience.” >>>

Teaching English to MNC Workforces: GlobalEnglish CEO Deepak Desai (Part 3)

SM: In the past 20 years English has evolved significantly as a language.

DD: Exactly, and it has evolved in its own manner. There is an academy in France that decides what constitutes a French word. There is no academy that decides what an ‘English’ word is. It is very much an open source language. We focus on large, multinational corporations. >>>

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Intel vs. ARM: In the Smartphone Era (Part 5)

By Guest Author Nalini Kumar Muppala

It is a tremendous victory to ARM’s business model that the Cambridge, UK-based company (with a market capitalization of $3.2 billion, $550 million in revenue and 1,740 employees) is causing executives at Intel (the semiconductor behemoth with market capitalization of $106 billion, $32.8 billion in revenue, and 83,900 employees) to lose sleep over their strategy to expand into the mobile phone, Internet devices, and embedded processor markets. >>>

Forbes Column 2009: Retailers: Embrace Web 3.0

Online specialty retail brands are building sizable businesses. Using new Web strategies can take them further. Find out how in this week’s Forbes column, Retailers: Embrace Web 3.0.

Teaching English to MNC Workforces: GlobalEnglish CEO Deepak Desai (Part 2)

SM: When you left Time Warner, you said you joined a dot-com. What did that entail?

DD: I became CFO for a company out of Hong Kong that was in the online advertising business. The idea of the company was to take many of the models that we have in the United States and create similar models in Asia. >>>