Posts Tagged ‘Bangalore’

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 • 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 26th, 2009 • Category: Bangalore, Bollywood, India, People

Bollywood actor Feroz Khan (70) passed away earlier today according to The Hindustan Times. He was suffering from cancer. He is survived by his son Bollywood actor Fardeen and daughter Laila.
 
Khan was the oldest of the original “Khan brothers.” His younger brother are Sanjay (his daughter Suzanne is married to Bollywood Hrithik Roshan), Akbar and  Sameer Khan. 
 
Born and brought up in Bangalore Feroz was born to a Pathan father and […]



By Kamla Bhatt • Oct 21st, 2008 • Category: Bangalore, Ideas, India, San Francisco, Technology

“I work in a bus company,” said the young software engineer when I asked him where he worked.
“What is a bus company?” I asked in a puzzled tone. I had never heard that term before.
Well, it turns out that in Bangalore if you work for any of the big IT companies like Infosys, Wipro, TCS,  […]



By Kamla Bhatt • Sep 23rd, 2008 • Category: Bangalore, Entrepreneur Interviews, Ideas, India, Internet and Telecom, Interviews, Podcast, Start-ups, Technology, Venture Capital

TeliBrahma headed by Suresh Narasimha received $2 million as its Series A funding.  Inventus Capital Partners, a VC firm headed by Kanwal Rekhi invested $1 million and with this investment Kanwal and his team make their first investment in India.  I have an interview with Kanwal, where he talks about his new company Inventus and […]



By Kamla Bhatt • Sep 18th, 2008 • Category: Bangalore, Ideas, India, Start-ups, Technology, Venture Capital

Watch out for an announcment of two Bangalore-based companies that have got funded by two Silicon Valley-based VC firms that have connections to India. One of them is in the mobile space and the other is in cleantech space.
Like one on the VCs pointed out cleantech in India will mean a totally different thing when […]