Kamla's Blog posts on ‘Business’

By Kamla Bhatt • Apr 15th, 2008 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Business, People, San Francisco, Social Media, Technology, YouTube Videos

How did Kodak reinvent itself? Once described by Businessweek as “old-line Rochester (N.Y.) company had film and print all through its DNA,” Kodak has completely transformed itself in the last few years. In fact when Kodak started its transformation process a lot of eyebrows were raised in doubt. Will this transformation strategy succeed/A Harvard Business […]



By Kamla Bhatt • Apr 9th, 2008 • Category: Bangalore, Business, Ideas, India, Internet and Telecom, Internet and Telecom India, Interviews, Technology, User Generated Content

Last night I came across a post that said MSN’s content partner India Syndicate posted plagiarized content. Melanie Phung of All About Content wrote in her blog post:
“My recent post on Viagra’s anniversary happens to rank well for a search on that phrase, but so does an article posted on MSN India.
This piece, “written” by […]



By Kamla Bhatt • Apr 8th, 2008 • Category: Bangalore, Business, Entrepreneur Interviews, Ideas, India, Internet and Telecom India

Travel portals are a hot segment in India and have received a good chunk of change from investors. Quite a few of the well-known travel portals are in the airlines and hotel reservation space, but there is another low-hanging fruit in the Indian travel segment that is gaining momentum: bus travel. Every day millions of […]



By Kamla Bhatt • Mar 30th, 2008 • Category: Business, Ideas, TechLife - Financial Express, Technology, Web 2.0

In this Sunday’s column in Financial Express I wrote about corporate blogging in India, and how there is a lot of education and awareness that needs to be created. While researching for the article it struck me that perhaps a pure-play corporate blogging approach might not be the most effective way in India. Perhaps, […]



By Kamla Bhatt • Mar 26th, 2008 • Category: Business, Global Voices, Ideas, India, Merger & Acquisition, Planes and Automobiles

Earlier today it was announced that Tata Motors of India is acquiring Jaguar and Land Rover from Ford Motors, which was once one of three automotive giants of Michigan. Tatas acquisition of these two high-end automobile brands is one of the central topics of conversation in global mainstream media and blogs. Within a short span […]



By Kamla Bhatt • Mar 25th, 2008 • Category: Business, Ideas, India, Internet and Telecom, Interviews, Start-ups, Technology, Travel, Venture Capital

In the last couple of years travel portals have become a dominant feature of the Indian startup landscape. Many of these travel portals have received a nice chunk of change from various VCs and angels. Gurgaon-based iXiGO became the latest travel related startup to receive its first round of undisclosed round of funding from BAF […]