Kamla's Blog posts on ‘Google’

By Kamla Bhatt • Nov 5th, 2007 • Category: Events, Google, Ideas, Internet and Telecom, Mobile, Technology, The New York Times

The cat is out of the bag. Google has finally announced that much debated, hyped subject: What is Google’s mobile plan? The Mountain View-based company has formed an alliance called the Open Handset Alliance with a bunch of telco handset manufacturers. The goal is to give developers access to Android that Google terms as the the first truly […]



By Kamla Bhatt • Nov 1st, 2007 • Category: Events, Google, Ideas, Social Media, Technology, Web 2.0

Google is launching its own social network site called OpenSocial today. For the past 24 hours the big buzz in off-line and online media is Googl’es social media strategy and the new ecosystem it is creating. Bloggers and media folks are racing to uncover every little detail about Google’s  new developments.  
Marc Andreessen of Ning has an informative and exhaustive post about […]



By Kamla Bhatt • Oct 25th, 2007 • Category: Bangalore, Business, Entrepreneur Interviews, Google, Ideas, India, Internet and Telecom, Merger & Acquisition, Social Media, Start-ups, Technology

The suspense is finally over. Microsoft has acquired a minority stake in Facebook, the Palo Alto-based social networking startup. Microsoft will start selling advertisement on Facebook.  Microsoft has reportedly paid $240 million in exchange for a minority stake in Facebook. How big is the stake? How about 1.6 percent? Yes, that is what Microsoft got in exchange for […]



By Kamla Bhatt • Sep 26th, 2007 • Category: Google, Ideas, Technology

What is Google? Is it a search company, a media company…what is it? Some people continue to refer Google as a search company, while I am increasingly convinced it is behaving like a media company.
Dan Farber’s article The Google Express Train seems to follow a similar train of thoughts about the Mountain View behmoth. Here […]



By Kamla Bhatt • Sep 20th, 2007 • Category: Google, Ideas, Internet and Telecom, Mobile, Technology, Video

Via Financial Times here is a fantastic video where Vint Cerf answers viewers questions about the future of Internet, Net Neutrality, Mobile Internet etc. Mr. Cerf says that he is quite enthusiastic about mobile phones as access device to the Internet.
Here is the link to Vint Cerf’s video.
Related Link: Yogen Dalal’s podcast interview, where he […]



By Kamla Bhatt • Sep 4th, 2007 • Category: Electronic gadgets, Google, Internet and Telecom

Ever since Business Standard reported that Google will unveil its Google phone in early September in india, the buzz about Google phone has continued to grow and shows no signs of fading away. As Jessica Guynn of LA Times puts it: “The Google Phone is like the Roswell UFO: Few outsiders know if it really […]