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 […]
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By Kamla Bhatt • Jul 24th, 2008 • Category: Entrepreneur Interviews, Global Voices, Ideas, Start-ups, Technology, User Generated Content, Web 2.0
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.
By Kamla Bhatt • Jul 20th, 2008 • Category: Bangalore, Diaspora, Entrepreneur Interviews, Ideas, India, Internet and Telecom, Start-ups, TechLife - Financial Express, Technology, Venture Capital, Video
It has been almost a month since I wrote my last TechLife column in Financial Express, but I am back this week. In this week’s column I take a look at the complex world of video ad networks, which appears to be a global trend and Indian investors have also jumped into the bandwagon. Just this month […]
By Kamla Bhatt • Jul 11th, 2008 • Category: Diaspora, Entrepreneur Interviews, Ideas, Internet and Telecom, Merger & Acquisition, Podcast, Technology, Web 2.0
Congrats to Rafat Ali and his team at ContentNext. They are being acquired by UK’s Guardian Group for over $30 million according to Kara Swisher of BoomTown.
Hats off to Rafat for starting this as a one-person site and growing it to a media group. Jemima Kiss of Guardian writes about Rafat’s rags to riches story […]
By Kamla Bhatt • Jul 10th, 2008 • Category: Bangalore, Entrepreneur Interviews, Internet and Telecom, Interviews, Start-ups, Technology, YouTube Videos
Rajiv Poddar is a Bangalore-based entrepreneur, who is bootstrapping his second startup. His first startup Sedna Wireless is in the process of being wrapped up was probably the first Indian startup focused on delivering a VOIP-based phone. But, After 2 years of working on Sedna Wireless Rajiv made the difficult and tough decision to take […]
By Kamla Bhatt • Jul 10th, 2008 • Category: Bombay/Mumbai, Diaspora, Entrepreneur Interviews, Food, India, Interviews, People, Travel
Mint & Mustard opened last year in Cardiff, Wales and is headed by Anand Joseph George, a truly gifted chef. The restaurant has got some great review and recently won the annual South Asian Chef competition in Wales and will represent at the national level.
My husband and I first met George in Jamavar, the Indian […]
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. 
