The rise and rise of Apple App Store

Today Nokia released its much publicized Ovi Store and reviews have not been too kind. Nokia expects 3.5 million developers in Forum Nokia ‘creating hundreds of thousands of apps‘. Nokia had originally released Ovi in October 2007 allowing customers to buy music and games. By that time, AAPL had already crossed $600M revenue in it’s [...]

Which companies are impacted by swine flu?

The swine flu epidemic (leading to a pandemic) has terrified the world. It’s impact can be felt across industries - with travel and hospitality being the worst hit. I tried to see which companies report a hit in performance because of swine flu. Using Gridstone’s Search Engine, I searched for swine flu. Here is a [...]

The next big thing

This is a great talk by three Silicon Valley serial entrepreneurs - Tony Perkins, CEO of AlwaysOn; Tim Draper, Founder and Managing Director of Draper, Fisher Jurvetson; and Michael Moe, Founding Partner of ThinkEquity. They talk about several different ideas around opportunities in the current slow-down and the global marketplace.

Source: Entrepreneurial Thought Leader Lecture, [...]

What is Microsoft upto?

This sure is a no-brainer. It is gearing up for a whole new battle of market share on the Web - Ad Revenues, et al. Mr. Gates announced in the World Economic Forum at Davos this year that his company is getting ready with some new and exciting products in the WWW services/offerings arena. Interesting [...]