Despite the rapid development of India specially in the IT field, research and study have revealed that the Indian Techies lacks way behind than their US counterparts. An American Techie is about 10 times more productive than an Indian Techie.
We have seen Rumors and Suggestions galore across the Internet space on how and why <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/">Microsoft</a> and <a href="http://www.yahoo.com/">Yahoo!</a> should join forces to fight the overwhelming success of <a href="http://www.google.com/">Google</a>. Although, Microsoft and Yahoo! are very unlikely to join hands anytime soon, they are doing their bit on their own to be able to compete with Google and fare well in the game - particularly search and advertisement. Microsoft's purchase of aQuantive is in direct response to the recent acquisition of DoubleClick by Google.
Unlike these other companies, Fabrik has expanded into hardware. Last February, they dropped $43M to buy SimpleTech, a major provider of external storage devices, (hard-drives, USB flash drives, etc). Until then, it had partnered with Seagate (makers of Maxtor).
A coveted and dedicated team of hackers hacks into some of these über famous blogs - <a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/">TechCrunch</a>, <a href="http://www.gigaom.com/">GigaOM</a>, <a href="http://www.engadget.com/">Engadget</a>, <a href="http://boingboing.net/">Boing Boing</a>, <em>et al</em> and took them for just 24 hours (may be even less should do). An organized blog article with striking difference but similar topic is posted across these blogs.
Looks like the MySpace-PhotoBucket fight was just a foreplay storm for the lull, calm climax that was coming! They are now together, PhotoBucket goes to MySpace.
Hundreds of web entrepreneurs have gone into mobile. How many successes can you name? There are few big reasons why it is not just improbable but impossible to create a successful mobile-wireless software startup -
(i) the underlying technology is broken, (ii) the business case is a proven recipe for failure and (iii) the social aspects are more awkward than a middle school dance
Google will acquire DoubleClick for $3.1 billion. The all-cash buy-out is almost twice the amount Google spent to buy Youtube last year. The amount beats Microsoft who was bidding for the same at about $2 billion.
The IT, ITES and BPO industry is India is not slowing down despite increasing cost of skilled workers and high attrition rate. The BPO industry in particular is looking ahead for more acquisitions, investments and other ways to increases its holdings, strength and productivity.
FUSE+Media, formed by Keyur Patel of Com Ventures is an entity for media investment in India. FUSE+Media is planning to announce a series of deals in the Entertainment and Media industry primarily on TV, Film, Print, Radio and of course - the web.