Has Twitter Made Us All Poets?

Filed Under (Wall Street) by Admin on 30-04-2009

Its not uncommon to see haikus in Facebook status updates and Twitter feeds these days. You could call it the Twitter effect. We write in blurbs, and have, in a way, become armchair poets.

Read the rest of this entry »

Newswatch: AOL Spins Off; Apple to Build Own Chips

Filed Under (Silicon Valley) by Admin on 30-04-2009

Thursday 8am Silicon Valley news report:

Time Warner Is Moving Closer to AOL Spinoff -NYTimes

Read the rest of this entry »

EBay Meets With Shareholders

Filed Under (Wall Street) by Admin on 29-04-2009

EBay held its annual shareholders meeting Wednesday at its headquarters in San Jose, Calif. For the first time in recent years, the event wasn’t held in conjunction with an “eBay Live conference with sellers, which the company decided not to have this year.

Read the rest of this entry »

Nominate Indian Startups for The World Economic Forum’s Tech Pioneers Program

Filed Under (Ventures) by Admin on 29-04-2009

Venture Intelligence is happy to invite you to nominate companies you are associated with in India to The World Economic Forum’s ‘Technology Pioneers’ Program 2010. The Program, started in 2000, with the goal of identifying new technologies that will have a dramatic and sustainable impact on business and society, has achieved the distinction of being the most prestigious recognition in the world

Newswatch: Cloud Strategies and the Debate Between Private and Public Clouds; Online Video Gains Meta Attention

Filed Under (Silicon Valley) by Admin on 29-04-2009

Wednesday 8am Silicon Valley news report:

The Perfect Strategy for the Cloud -CloudComputing

Read the rest of this entry »

Only in China: McDonald’s Goes Online to Sell Consumer Goods

Filed Under (Wall Street) by Admin on 28-04-2009

From China Journal’s Juliet Yet:

Read the rest of this entry »

Newswatch: Privacy Advocates Pressure Big Companies -Reuters

Filed Under (Silicon Valley) by Admin on 28-04-2009

Tuesday 8am Silicon Valley news report:

FTC says Internet firms near “last chance” -Reuters

Read the rest of this entry »

Moot, 4chan Founder, Takes Time 100 Poll

Filed Under (Wall Street) by Admin on 27-04-2009

The twentysomething founder of 4chan.org won Time’s title of “World’s Most Influential Person” despite accusations that the meme site’s fans hacked the online poll.

Read the rest of this entry »

"Indian corporate tax rate way above global average"

Filed Under (Ventures) by Admin on 27-04-2009

As part of a debate in the Economic Times, Amit Mitra of FICCI, makes the case for why corporate taxes are too high in India.The average tax rate globally stands at 25.9% in 2008 while that of India stands at 33.9%. This figure includes a 10% surcharge and a 3% education cess. In other words, corporate tax rate in India is almost eight percentage points higher than that of the global average. And

Don’t Put Anything Off: Get Things Done Today

Filed Under (Small Business) by Admin on 27-04-2009

Don’t put anything off, if you want something done for your business, get it done right now. :-)

Read the rest of this entry »