Switching between mobile and office phones can be annoying. Cisco Systems is teaming up with the maker of the popular Jawbone headsets to tackle the problem. Read the rest of this entry »
SKS Microfinance founder Vikram Akula and Grameen Bank founder Muhammad Yunus present two very different viewpoints on how to scale microfinance at a fascinating recent panel at the Clinton Global Initiative conference. The main difference between the two has less to do with whether microfinance should be for profit or not, but who the profits should accrue to. While Akula makes a convincing case
Tuesday evening I attended a media roundtable at Boulevard in San Francisco with top executives from BitTorrent, which invented the popular file sharing technology that has about 80 million monthly users.
As Web tracking faces growing regulatory and public scrutiny, people who analyze online data for a living are confronting questions about their industry. Read the rest of this entry »
Outlook Business has a profile of private weather forecasting company SkyMet.Media outfits, such as Hindustan Times, Zee TV, Aaj Tak, The Hindu, Times Now and Mint (subscribe) to its services….(Nokia) wanted a reliable weather forecast supplier for farmers, recalls Singh. SkyMet was given the job of forecasting the weather for 3,000 tehsils across India. This meany redoing infrastructure and
Did you know you can reclaim hours of your time by just short-cutting or automating even the simplest actions you repeat every day, week, month or year? A while back, I invested in a small software that helps me type, launches programs and create simple macros. I didn’t use it to its full potential, most [...]
Hult business school opened its fifth campus this week, in the downtown district of San Francisco. Steve Wozniak (video coming soon) was the guest speaker and also signed copies of his new book “iWoz.”
Theres a new piece of data that Twitter Chief Operating Officer Dick Costolo could take with him to the stage today at the IAB MIXX conference in New York: Last month Twitter surpassed MySpace in unique visitors to become the No. 3 social networking-type service in the world, according to comScore Inc. Read the rest of this entry »
The death of Segway’s owner is a gruesome chapter in the history of an invention that was supposed to revolutionize the way we got around but that ended up going nowhere. Read the rest of this entry »
