Saviors or Villains

Protection money, the latest While You Were Out column, is yet another Stanley Bing masterpiece that explains why I open the FORTUNE magazine from its last page – Bing's permanent abode.…

Consorting With The Enemy

In large systems integration projects, it is customary for the buyer to award the entire contract to a systems integrator who manages all other companies required to fulfill the different…

When 4 Is More Than 5!

I recently came across TwitterFeed which automatically posts Twitter and Facebook updates from a blog's RSS feeds. It has a dashboard where you can view how many people have viewed your…

Slow News Days For Economic Times

Like every publication, Economic Times (India's largest and the world's second largest business daily newspaper after The Wall Street Journal) is entitled to its own share of slow news days. Very few…

Midomi Does A Shazam For Live Music

Midomi recognizes live music – even if you and I hum it! And, given my modest singing capabilities, it seems to be doing a good job of this!! Available on PC and…

Indian Education System for NYC?

In my early blogging days, I’d written a blog post called Indian Education System is the Best … for India! In a recent FORTUNE magazine interview entitled "The CEO Educator", Joel…

Click or Call?

RedBeacon and Yext were arguably the two most successful companies at the recently concluded TechCrunch50 conference for startups: RedBeacon won the first prize and Yext scored a big US$25 million…