Kamla's Blog posts on ‘TechLife - Financial Express’

By Kamla Bhatt • Aug 20th, 2008 • Category: Bollywood, Diaspora, Ideas, Social Media, TechLife - Financial Express, Web 2.0

In this Sunday’s TechLife column in Financial Express the topic is virtual Bollywood and how there is now a new class of Bollywood fans that has been made possible by the spread of Internet and web 2.0 technologies. This new undiscovered class of Bollywood fans are the new age movie goers and I am wondering [...]



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 • Jun 7th, 2008 • Category: Diaspora, Entrepreneur Interviews, Start-ups, TechLife - Financial Express, Technology, Venture Capital

“Is Silicon Valley really all that different?”” wondered an American entrepreneur recently. His question caught me by surprise considering he was born and brought up right here in the San Francisco bay area. What was surprising is he thought the ecosystem and the ability to do startups, raise money, succeed or fail were available in [...]



By Kamla Bhatt • May 26th, 2008 • Category: Business, Diaspora, Entrepreneur Interviews, Ideas, India, Infrastructure, Start-ups, TechLife - Financial Express, Technology, Venture Capital

In this week’s column in Financial Express the topic is about cleantech and the connection between Silicon Valley and India. Last week during the TiECon in Silicon Valley  cleantech was a major topic of discussion and I met a venture capitalist and an entrepreneur who are doing some very interesting things in this space. Ravi [...]



By Kamla Bhatt • May 11th, 2008 • Category: Books and Authors, Business, Diaspora, Ideas, India, TechLife - Financial Express, Technology

In this week’s Techlife column in Financial Express the focus was on Research and Development and how that fules innovation. The original title was “What is fuelling innovation and entrepreneurship.”
Here is the article:
There appears to be an upward worldwide trend when you look at innovation and entrepreneurship. Fuelling this trend is good old [...]



By Kamla Bhatt • Apr 13th, 2008 • Category: Entrepreneur Interviews, Ideas, India, Internet and Telecom, Internet and Telecom India, TechLife - Financial Express, Technology, User Generated Content, Web 2.0

In this Sunday’s column of Financial Express I continue my focus on how corporations are using social media tools to reach out to their workers, customers and potential employees. In my previous two columns I looked at corporate blogging in the USA and India and in this week’s edition I look at Facebook and how [...]