I just found that the Kamla Bhatt Show got the best design award for the online radio category in the PC World Web Award 2008. Here is a list of the jury members.
This comes as a pleasant surprise since I was not really aware of these awards and have no idea how I made it […]

RockYou, a social widget maker located in San Mateo received $35 million as part of its Series C funding.  DCM  led the funding for this latest round and previous investors of RockYou include Sequoia and LightSpeed.
RockyYou’s array of social widget offerings include SuperWall,  Horoscope, SlideShow and many more. Their widgets can be found on Facebook, […]

“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 […]

Earlier today, well actually yesterday since  I just noticed it is pushing 2 PM. Anyway earlier today I was at Microsoft’s Office in Mountain View. This is the first time I visited their campus here and did not realize how big it is. I was there to meet and interview Paul Murphy, Director of Innovation […]

Local search is the new battle ground for startups and VCs in India. “But, local search is an oxymoron,” says Deepak Srinivasan, Internet marketing guru. “There is no such user experience called local search. It is a local directory business,” he adds. “Local search is often used as a proxy for local points […]

Mr. Arun Sarin is stepping down as CEO of Vodafone, headquartered in London,which is the world’s largest mobile operator by revenue writes FT. Mr. Sarin has confirmed that he will be stepping down on July 29th, 2008.Vittorio Colao, who is number two at Vodafone will succeed Mr. Sarin as the head of Vodafone.
The news of […]