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 […]
Kamla's Blog posts on ‘Internet and Telecom India’
By Kamla Bhatt • Apr 8th, 2008 • Category: Bangalore, Business, Entrepreneur Interviews, Ideas, India, Internet and Telecom India
By Kamla Bhatt • Mar 2nd, 2008 • Category: Ideas, India, Internet and Telecom, Internet and Telecom India, Technology, Web 2.0
I first heard about Scrabulous sometime last year when I read an article in International Herald Tribune on a flight from San Francisco to Bangalore. Those long flights have a way of forcing you to focus and mull what you read. I recollect while reading the article about the Agarwalla brothers and their ingenuity […]
By Kamla Bhatt • Feb 26th, 2008 • Category: Bangalore, Electronic gadgets, India, Internet and Telecom India, Mobile, Only in India, People, Technology, YouTube Videos
Every month India adds millions of new mobile users. Currently about 20 percent of India (population over 1 billion) has mobile phones. In a short span of less than 10 years the number of mobile users in India has grown from a few thousands to millions.
In India about 60 percent of the mobile handset market […]
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 11th, 2008 • Category: Bangalore, Business, Ideas, India, Internet and Telecom, Internet and Telecom India, Mobile, Podcast, Video, YouTube Videos
What is MSN Mobile India’s strategy? I turned to Senthil Sundaram, business head of MSN Mobile India to find out the answers to my questions. I met with Senthil at MSN India’s office in Bangalore and spent quite a bit of time talking about the subject. Why is it that we don’t hear much […]
By Kamla Bhatt • Feb 10th, 2008 • Category: Business, Diaspora, Ideas, India, Internet and Telecom, Internet and Telecom India, Social Media, Start-ups, TechLife - Financial Express, Web 2.0
In this week’s TechLife column in Financial Express the focus is on LinkedIn, the business networking site that has grown at a rapid pace since the service was unveiled in 2003. LinkedIn is a Silicon Valley-based startup.
Here is the article.
LinkedIn’s tagline “relationships matter,” sums up a fundamental primordial need of human beings to connect with […]
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. 
