Last week Carnegie Mellon University and Haas Business School at Cal held a one day conference on “The Mobile Future.” The conference featured a clutch of well-known researchers and industry people.
The take away was that perhaps the mobile phone revolution has finally arrived in the USA. It was also interesting to see that […]
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By Kamla Bhatt • Apr 27th, 2008 • Category: Ideas, India, Internet and Telecom, Mobile, Technology, The New York Times, YouTube Videos
By Kamla Bhatt • Mar 17th, 2008 • Category: Diaspora, Ideas, India, The New York Times
Through his diligent research Dilip Ratha of the World Bank has underscored and highlighted the importance of remittance from the migrant community and has established a strong link between migration and development in many poor countries. The importance of Ratha’s research stems from the fact that he clearly demonstrated and showed how big these remittances […]
By Kamla Bhatt • Mar 13th, 2008 • Category: Americas, Events, Social Media, The New York Times, Video, Web 2.0, YouTube Videos
The big news items dominating the US are a couple of things: politics and the economy. Every day the news kind of gets worse about the state of the economy. The recent $200 billion infusion (probably bailout is the right word) by the Fed briefly lifted the stock market. But market watchers and analysts […]
By Kamla Bhatt • Feb 21st, 2008 • Category: Ideas, Internet and Telecom, Merger & Acquisition, Technology, The New York Times
The online world has been buzzing about Microsoft’s latest move in hiring a legal firm that is well-known for its proxy battles when it comes to mergers and acquisitions. According to the BBC Innisfree M&A Incorporated is the legal firm recently hired by Microsoft. According to this site there were about 99 proxy fights in […]
By Kamla Bhatt • Feb 12th, 2008 • Category: Business, Google, Ideas, Internet and Telecom, Merger & Acquisition, Technology, The New York Times
So,Yahoo!! announced its decision on the Microsoft offer. While Yahoo! has not rejected Microsoft’s offer outright, they have instead asked for $40 a share instead of the current offer of $31 per share. Clearly, Yahoo! has left room for negotiations with Microsoft. In response to Yahoo’s announcement Microsoft has issued this press release pointing out […]
By Kamla Bhatt • Jan 3rd, 2008 • Category: Diaspora, India, Life, The New York Times
The Indian school system is a a big hit in Japan according to this New York Times article, which was picked up and reprinted in almost all the major Indian newspapers. It seems the Indian system of learning math by rote and the emphasis on cramming at an early age has found many takers in […]
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. 
