Connected cars and parking apps. What is the connection you ask? Think about this – you are cruising along on Interstate 280 in a car with all kinds of bells and whistles like voice-activated commands and smart self-parking. Yes, there is such a thing. Your connected car can park itself once you identify a parking [...]

Today’s cars are technologically far more advanced than the ones manufactured 10 years ago. There is a lot of innovation taking place in the automobile sector right from enhancing a user’s experience to security to deploying clean technology. The vehicles rolling out today are embedded with a larger array of sensors and software. As someone [...]

Meet Venkatesh Prasad, who is known as Ford Motor Company’s “What’s Next Guy.” Prasad has one eye trained on all the new and exciting technological advances, and one eye on how new apps and electronics can be included in the vehicles. Cars have become an extension of our living room couch and office space. We [...]

Later this evening Jet Airway’s maiden flight from San Francisco to Mumbai via Shanghai will take off. At 6 pm this evening Jet Airways has a little do to celebrate this event at the San Francisco Airport. I hope to be there and write a post about it and hopefully take some pictures.  Like I [...]

Naresh Goyal, who heads India’s largest airline was in Silicon Valley a couple of weeks to attend and speak at the TiECon event. I understand that this was his first trip to Silicon Valley after a gap of over 25 years. If you missed reading it, Jet Airway is set to launch its its service [...]

All I heard on the first day of TiECon was about Elon Musk and his Tesla roadster. Musk was the keynote speaker on the second day and the highlight was that he was going to drive his Tesla (he owns the first Tesla that rolled out of their production line) into the auditorium just before [...]

This year’s TiECon was a bit low-keyed and somber and was in ways a reflection of the economic situation in the USA. There were about 2,500 that attended the conference. However on the second day it seemed like there were fewer people, when compared to the first day. The two opening keynote speakers on both [...]

Jet Airways, India’s largest airlines, is expanding its footprint in the US and will now be flying out of the West Coast. Starting June 14th 2008 Jet Airways will operate flights out of San Francisco International Airport to Mumbai via Shanghai. What is interesting is that Jet Airways will become the first Indian airline to [...]

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 [...]

Seema Chaturvedi is managing director of Accelerator Group, located in Michigan. Last week, Seema was in New York for a private equity conference that her group organized and I caught up with her to find out about opportunities for investments in India. What was more interesting to find out was the merger and acquisition opportunities [...]