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Microsoft’s third-quarter earnings jumped over 50%, defying expectations.

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We tend to be canaries-in-a-coal mine here in Silicon Valley as we tend to live the way others will in the near future.

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Motorola reported a five-fold increase for third-quarter profits, notably due to a strong demand for its Android smartphones. Read the rest of this entry »

DEG Deutsche Investitions - und Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH has taken a minority stake in Deepak Fasteners Ltd., a leading manufacturer of high end specialty industrial fasteners.Deepak Fasteners owns the Unbrako brand, which it acquired two years back from SPS Technologies of USA. Unbrako is an engineers preferred choice for all safety and mission critical applications.We are very happy

For a number of reasons, both practical and political, the issue of public health has moved to the forefront of our national consciousness. With so much attention coming to how we can all live healthier lives, it only makes sense that these key messages must become a part of our corporate culture. Fortunately, encouraging healthy [...]

Nair & Co has built a thriving business in offering services that handle the incredible complexities of employing staff in different countries. This Silicon Valley headquartered company works with local tech companies to manage the HR functions, and the many tax and regulatory issues governing employees abroad.

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The web of competing claims on smartphone technology might seem a uniquely 21st-century problem. But according to legal scholar Adam Mossoff, the smartphone woes are reminiscent of a forgotten 19th century legal melee: the Sewing Machine War. Read the rest of this entry »

From the http://business.in.com/article/work-in-progress/rupa-the-paper-tiger/17642/1″>profile of India’s largest publisher of English books, which releases over 250 titles a year.But it was in 2004 that Rupa really hit it big with Chetan Bhagats Five Point Someone. The book rewrote the rules of the publishing industry in India. An English book was considered a bestseller if it sold 10,000

There are thousands of blogging dos and donts. This list is specifically for business bloggers and is focused on dos and donts that help build relationships with your visitors. Dos 1. (An obvious one.) Do have an opt in and an RSS feed so people can follow you or choose to hear from you again. [...]

I’m a fan of Max Levchin and his fellow Paypal alumni because this group has spent the past five years creating many of the more interesting Silicon Valley startups.

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