In recent news, FB has set its IPO price at $28-$35 per share which puts the valuation of the company at $96 billion, which means Mark Zuckerberg just might become richer than Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. It has been a long time since I wrote a post about Facebook-the grand daddy of social networks. And as the IPO show hits the road, I thought this will be a good time to review Facebook. (read more…)
What was the last time you showed off a cool app to your fellow Smartphone lovers? If it has been a while, then this fresh new list will give you some ideas. Between Apple, Android, Amazon and Windows, there might be thousands of apps users have access to. You will find lists of old and new, weird and cool apps all over the Internet. How to pick the coolest ones, is the question. So we created a list of the ones we think are the best. Here are my picks of apps that are cool, fun or plain useful. (read more…)
Google does Cloud
Data storage in Cloud is a concept whose time has come. Why else, then, Google, which had shelved this concept earlier, is now re-entering the fray? With Apple’s iCloud, Amazon’s own Cloud service, Dropbox and Box.com already competing in the personal storage space, Google is actually a late entrant. Rumor has it that Google is all set to launch Google Drive next week. If you’ve read this post about Dropbox, you know what Dropbox does and why it is popular. It is the compatibility across platforms; the sync capabilities across devices. Should Dropbox and others be sweating in their socks as Google does Cloud? What is different this time with Google? (read more…)
April 9, 2012. “Remember this day” wrote WSJ’s Dennis K Berman, “551 day old Instagram is worth $1 billion. 116 year old New York Times Co. is worth $967 million.” After this news, the Internet community has renewed the debate about being in a tech bubble. Without joining that debate, I will say this-Instagram’s 13 employees made some Instabucks-to the tune of millions and all for a total two years of work. Here are 5 things you need to know about this story- (read more…)
While most people have heard about outsourcing, many people are unaware of its sub-category, known as crowdsourcing. It involves resolving a problem or managing a production process by outsourcing it to an undefined source of people. For example, if you are looking to name your website something unique and are unable to come up with a solution, you might outsource the task by posting it as a job on a freelancing website, to acquire new ideas from an undefined group of people, at a cost. Crowdsourcing might not be as widely recognized as it is used nowadays and can be extremely helpful in problem solving and outsourcing tasks at a relatively cheap price.
As Android and Apple’s iOS continue to fight for total world domination in the Mobile OS space, one name almost always conspicuous by its absence, in my opinion, is Microsoft’s Windows8 . Windows 8 is Microsoft’s attempt to stay relevant in the future. The product received great reviews overall and Microsoft is using its money and power to create an ecosystem around this OS. But a recent report by a research firm called IDS has something that may worry Ballmer and Co. in Seattle. (read more…)
It has been a long time since I did a leadership post. With Apple’s Cook in the limelight with launch of the New iPad, Whitman’s renewed efforts at saving HP and Yahoo’s new CEO Scott Thompson now getting settled, I thought this was the right time to do a “CEO news” post. (read more…)
Unless you have been living under a rock for past months, there is very little chance you haven’t heard of Pinterest. But you may or may not have heard of ‘Fancy’-a site that is modeled just like Pinterest only with a bit of difference between them. Fancy makes money and Pinterest may or may not in future make money. (read more…)
When Steve Jobs first decided to create the iPad, his brief to his team was “I want to make a tablet and it can’t have a keyboard or stylus”. The rest, as the world now knows, is tablet history. The hugely successful iPad proved that the multi-touch input capability was the future. Despite the success of his device, Jobs also later realized that the tablet was a device of “content consumption not content creation”. (read more…)
New iPad
I wonder why for all the creative thinking that goes inside Apple products, they fell short on a creative new name for the “New iPad”? Maybe they are convinced that the upgraded device is not that great and this product does not deserve a new naming effort. I was surprised at how quickly Apple unveiled the “New iPad”. After all, the longer the rumor mill cycle, greater the hype! But here it is-the “New iPad”. So Apple fanboys, rejoice and please unite to rename this “New iPad” iPad3. (read more…)