Kamla's Blog posts on ‘Technology’

By Kamla Bhatt • Feb 4th, 2010 • Category: Business, Entrepreneur Interviews, Ideas, Living In America, San Francisco, Technology, Video

Steve Jobs clearly recognizes the power of storytelling.
A consummate marketer Jobs known the art of storytelling, and this Stanford Commencement address is a great example. “I have 3 stories to share,” he says in his introduction. The 3 stories seem to map to birth, life/love and death. The cycle of life. Jobs apparently subscribes to Buddhist [...]



By Kamla Bhatt • Dec 8th, 2009 • Category: Bangalore, Business, Ideas, India, Internet and Telecom, San Francisco, Social Media, Start-ups, Technology, Video, YouTube Videos

Over the long Thanksgiving weekend San Francisco’s Mayor Gavin Newsom made his first maiden trip to Bangalore, India. Interestingly, for over 100 years San Francisco has been an entry point for Indians, many of whom came from the region of Punjab and were often referred to as Hindus in the early 20th century. Reportedly, the [...]



By Kamla Bhatt • Dec 3rd, 2009 • Category: Business, Ideas, Internet and Telecom, Social Media, Start-ups, Technology, Web 2.0

How are marketing heads in Silicon Valley adopting to the new, tough economic environment? What are their marketing weapons of choice in this brave, new world?  Social media and Web 2.0 are the weapons of choice for some of the marketing heads in major corporations and start-ups. How are companies effectively using [...]



By Kamla Bhatt • Oct 1st, 2009 • Category: Business, Diaspora, Ideas, Interviews, Podcast, Technology

Earlier this week Shatanu  Narayen, President and CEO of Adobe Systems was named to the Board of Directors at Dell Inc, the second largest maker of personal computers. An experienced dealmaker Shantanu will be part of the board’s leadership development and compensation committee and will be paid $50,000 for serving on the board in 2010 [...]



By Kamla Bhatt • Jul 1st, 2009 • Category: Bangalore, Business, Ideas, India, Infrastructure, Internet and Telecom, Internet and Telecom India, Technology, YouTube Videos

Networking giant Cisco Systems is aggressively pursuing smart energy or green tech initiatives through its concept of Smart Connected Buildings.Cisco announced today that it is introducing the first of its product in the smart energy category called Network Building Mediator that was incubated in Cisco’s Globalization Center East in Bangalore, India. This is the first [...]



By Kamla Bhatt • Apr 28th, 2009 • Category: Diaspora, India, Life, Only in India, Technology

The 15th Lok Sabha elections in India is through its half-way point and as expected turnouts in the various constituencies have been pretty strong bordering 50 percent and above. Young voters (t 18-28 years) might hold the key in some of the constituencies.
We bring you a series of digital vignettes that will hopefully give us [...]