Hollywood movie makers wants a share of the Indian film industry. Warner Bros appears to have gone all out in marketing their first Bollywood commercial film: Chandni Chowk to China or CC2C as the film is called in India. The film opens in the USA today and stars Akshay Kumar, Deepika Padukone, Roger […]
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By Kamla Bhatt • Jan 16th, 2009 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Bollywood, India, People, The New York Times, YouTube Videos
By Kamla Bhatt • Apr 27th, 2008 • Category: Ideas, India, Internet and Telecom, Mobile, Technology, The New York Times, YouTube Videos
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 […]
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 […]
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. 
