Thursday, June 19, 2008

Sramana Mitra on Strategy

Sramana Mitra on Strategy

Deal radar 2008: Veoh

Posted: 19 Jun 2008 12:09 PM CDT

San Diego-based Veoh is an internet television service where users can find and watch major studio content, independent productions and other user generated videos. Founded in 2003 by Dmitry Shapiro, who is also the company's Chief Innovation officer, Veoh began its full beta service in early 2006.

Infineon: The Qimonda Challenge

Posted: 19 Jun 2008 11:56 AM CDT

In the last part of this series, we looked at Infineon's recent financials and pointed out that Qimonda is a key reason why the company is struggling to create more shareholders' value. Let us now take a deeper look into Qimonda's challenges and Infineon's strategic initiatives to address the situation.

Where is Adobe Going vis-à-vis Apple?

Posted: 19 Jun 2008 11:40 AM CDT

Adobe has been around for more than 25 years now and a significant part of that period is marked by its successful symbiotic relationship with Apple. However, over the past few years, this relationship has turned sour with their products competing with each other (e.g. Final Cut and Aperture from Apple).

Towards Personalization: Strands Founder Francisco Martin (Part 4)

Posted: 19 Jun 2008 01:59 AM CDT

SM: How do you make your recommendation software portable to mass utilization?

FM: We have been working on something we call "Business Solutions". The objective is to provide the recommender as a service for third parties. They can easily get recommendations integrated into their websites by utilizing our hosted platform. This is very cost effective.

Acyut: Humanoid at BITS Pilani

Posted: 18 Jun 2008 10:28 PM CDT

Yesterday, I met Samay, one of the proud parents of Acyut, the humanoid robot at BITS. Samay, Arpit and their team members are in the Bay Area to participate in the robogames in San Francisco.

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