Earlier this morning I met with Naresh Gupta at Adobe’s headquarters in downtown San Jose, California. Naresh is the Managing Director of Adobe India and head of R&D Labs in emerging markets in India, China and Romania. Naresh helped set up Adobe’s R&D lab in Noida, India over 10 years ago and has helped […]
Archive for April, 2008
By Kamla Bhatt • Apr 30th, 2008 • Category: Ideas, India, Infrastructure, Internet and Telecom, Video, Web 2.0, YouTube Videos
By Kamla Bhatt • Apr 29th, 2008 • Category: Ideas, India, Technology, Web 2.0
What has sex got to do with it? That is the eye-catching title of an article written by Dhamini Ratnam of Hindustan Times. The focus of Dhamini’s article was women and technology, where she profiled three women: Andrea Menzes, an entreprenuer; Sakshi Juneja, a marketing professional and well-known blogger and I. I was […]
By Kamla Bhatt • Apr 27th, 2008 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison
In this week’s Sunday column in Financial Express the focus is on how technology is helping the open access movement and unlocking knowledge to millions of people around the world. There are lots of universities, non-profit organizations and dedicated individuals, who are working in this area. I spoke to two people: Neeru Khosla, who heads […]
By Kamla Bhatt • Apr 27th, 2008 • Category: Ideas, India, Internet and Telecom, Mobile, Technology, The New York Times, YouTube Videos
Last week Carnegie Mellon University and Haas Business School at Cal held a one day conference on “The Mobile Future.” The conference featured a clutch of well-known researchers and industry people.
The take away was that perhaps the mobile phone revolution has finally arrived in the USA. It was also interesting to see that […]
By Kamla Bhatt • Apr 26th, 2008 • Category: Americas, Ideas, India - Latin America, Life, Retail Industry
Coconut water has arrived in American in a tetrapak all the way from Brazil. I hope somebody in India has seen this tetrapak and take a leaf out of the savvy Brazilian’s marketing techniques. Coconut is supposed to be native to South Asia (Wikipedia).
It was strange to drink coconut water from a tetrapak. I grew […]
By Kamla Bhatt • Apr 25th, 2008 • Category: Business, Ideas, India, Technology, Venture Capital
If you are a wannabe entrepreneur or already have a gig that is in stealth mode, or you already have and have been working on it then here is your chance to participate and win prize money and also get access to venture capitalists and angels in India. The TiE-Canaan Entrepreneurial Challenge is back. […]
Kamla Bhatt is the host and producer of an Internet Radio show where listeners can find stories about the new and emerging India and the global Indian community. As a pioneer of 'internet radio' format in India Kamla started her first show News about India, followed by TalkNewsIndia in 2005. In 2006 she premiered her new show: The Kamla Bhatt Show: Life, People and Ideas. 
