Archive for January, 2008

By Kamla Bhatt • Jan 29th, 2008 • Category: Books and Authors, Chinidia, Diaspora, Ideas, India, Technology

Billions of entrepreneurs in India and China? Caught your attention did it not? Well, that is the name of a new book by Harvard Professor Tarun Khanna that will be published in February 2008. The book titled, Billions of Entrepreneurs: How China and India Are Reshaping Their Futures and Yours looks at both […]



By Kamla Bhatt • Jan 29th, 2008 • Category: Bangalore, Electronic gadgets, Ideas, India, Internet and Telecom, Internet and Telecom India, Mobile, Technology, Video

A few days ago I received the latest phone from Nokia: Nokia 6110 Navigator. The Nokia 6110 Navigator had its world-wide launch in Singapore in August 2007, and the phone finally hit the Indian market in December 2007.
I put the loaner Nokia phone away since I was going through a bad patch of flu. Over […]



By Kamla Bhatt • Jan 28th, 2008 • Category: Business, Ideas

For the last few days the term “creative capitalism” has made its way into various media reports. Creative capitalism was the central theme of Bill Gates speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos last week. In some ways creative capitalism is a “revision” of capitalism and is an economic framework that helps address […]



By Kamla Bhatt • Jan 28th, 2008 • Category: Business, Entrepreneur Interviews, Ideas, Technology, Video, YouTube Videos

Last week Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates speech a the World Economic Forum in Davos. Gates’s speech was on creative capitalism, which is essentially a refinement of the capitalist system, and how you can help the millions of poor people at the bottom of the pyramid across the world. What is the innovation that is required […]



By Kamla Bhatt • Jan 27th, 2008 • Category: Bangalore, Business, Diaspora, Electronic gadgets, Ideas, India, Internet and Telecom, Internet and Telecom India, Social Media, Start-ups, TechLife - Financial Express, Technology, User Generated Content, Web 2.0

In this week’s Techlife column in Financial Express the focus is on photo sharing sites and the kinds of different services they offer. Interestingly, the photo sharing sites that target Indian and the Non-Residence population seem to lay a lot of emphasis on online photo printing and ordering gift items. art
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By Kamla Bhatt • Jan 24th, 2008 • Category: Bangalore, Business, Ideas, India

Predictably, the global financial market crisis and the US Fed’s emergency rate cut is a central point of discussion among the power brokers of Davos for the World Economic Forum. Many political and corporate leaders were enroute to Davos when the 48-hour stock market crisis unfolded and reverberated around the world. It has now become […]