The interview lineup for this week includes Hakia, RedBook and Accenture and all three guests happen to be accomplished women in their field.
Archive for July, 2008
By Kamla Bhatt • Jul 29th, 2008 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Books and Authors, Business, Entrepreneur Interviews, Ideas, Interviews, Podcast, San Francisco, Social Media, Start-ups, Technology, Video, Web 2.0, YouTube Videos
By Kamla Bhatt • Jul 27th, 2008 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Bollywood, Events, India, Interviews, Life, Video
Today the Unforgettable Tour starring the Bachchans, Madhuri Dixit, Ritesh Deshmukh, Preity Zinta and others comes to the San Francisco bay area. The stars will perform at what was previously known as Oakland Coliseum, which is a giant sports stadium that can seat thousands of people. I imagine all the roads leading to the Coliseum [...]
By Kamla Bhatt • Jul 27th, 2008 • Category: Ideas, San Francisco, Social Media, Start-ups, Technology
I am hooked on FriendFeed and love reading what others have bookmarked and love the ability to post a comment or click the like button. FriendFeed is a wonderful place to discover all kinds of new stuff, and in a way witness how news proliferates in a viral fashion. I find that I have scaled [...]
By Kamla Bhatt • Jul 24th, 2008 • Category: Entrepreneur Interviews, Global Voices, Ideas, Start-ups, Technology, User Generated Content, Web 2.0
Amra Tareen heads Allvoices, a San Francisco-based citizen media startup. After months of being their beta version, AllVoices released its brand new website a few days ago. Allvoices raised $4.5 million in venture capital funding last year.
Prior to founding Allvoices, Amra was with Sevin Rosen, a venture capital firm and before that she worked [...]
By Kamla Bhatt • Jul 22nd, 2008 • Category: Ideas, India, Infrastructure, Internet and Telecom, Internet and Telecom India, Technology
India has the fastest growing mobile subscriber base in the world and is now ranked 2nd right after China. In order to grow its mobile consumer base Indian and Chinese telecom operators have recognized there is a need to reach out to the rural areas and provide viable, sustainable and efficient telecom infrastructure before they [...]
By Kamla Bhatt • Jul 21st, 2008 • Category: Entrepreneur Interviews, Ideas, San Francisco, Start-ups, Technology, Venture Capital, Video, YouTube Videos
Last week BlogHer, a community of women bloggers, made two major announcements. It received $5 million in funding from Peacock Equity and Venrock, a returning investor. Peacock Equity was co-founded in 2007 by GE Commercial Finance’s Media Communications and Entertainment business and NBC Universal.