What does it take to do a startup in India? While there is a lot of hype about startups in India, beneath it all is a story about the blood, sweat and tears and what it takes to do a startup. It is probably a lot more challenging to do a startup like Guruji, which […]
Kamla's Blog posts on ‘Google’
By Kamla Bhatt • Mar 18th, 2008 • Category: Bangalore, Business, Diaspora, Entrepreneur Interviews, Google, Ideas, India, Internet and Telecom, Interviews, Start-ups, Technology
By Kamla Bhatt • Feb 29th, 2008 • Category: Google, Ideas, Internet and Telecom
According to dictionary.com the noun innovation means “something new or different introduced.” I think we have became rather liberal in how we interpret when “something new or different is introduced.” For sometime now I have started to feel rather uneasy every time I bump into the buzz word of the decade: innovation. Is it just […]
By Kamla Bhatt • Feb 24th, 2008 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Bombay/Mumbai, Food, Google, Ideas, India, Internet and Telecom India, Social Media, TechLife - Financial Express, Technology, User Generated Content, Video
In this Sunday’s column of TechLife in Financial Express I spoke about the power of word of mouth marketing. An old marketing concept, how has word of mouth marketing morphed in this tech savvy world filled with gadgets, gizmos, blogs, video blogs, online reviews etc?
Here is the link to the article in Financial Express.
I did […]
By Kamla Bhatt • Feb 12th, 2008 • Category: Business, Google, Ideas, Internet and Telecom, Merger & Acquisition, Technology, The New York Times
So,Yahoo!! announced its decision on the Microsoft offer. While Yahoo! has not rejected Microsoft’s offer outright, they have instead asked for $40 a share instead of the current offer of $31 per share. Clearly, Yahoo! has left room for negotiations with Microsoft. In response to Yahoo’s announcement Microsoft has issued this press release pointing out […]
By Kamla Bhatt • Nov 22nd, 2007 • Category: Bangalore, Google, Ideas, India, Internet and Telecom, Internet and Telecom India, Technology
A picture speaks a thousand words and this one certainly does. While driving down MG Road in downtown Bangalore we spotted this billboard.
This billboard gives us an inkling of how big Yahoo! thinks the opportunity is in India. Yahoo! India has been quietly working on a whole host of products and services for the […]
By Kamla Bhatt • Nov 22nd, 2007 • Category: Google, Internet and Telecom, Merger & Acquisition, Technology
For the past few months I have written a couple of posts wondering if Google is a search company or should it be called a media company. I finally found my answer through this CNet article written by Declan McCullagh about Google’s acquisition of DoubleClick. The central point in McCullagh’s article is the bizzare politics […]
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. 
