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Jnan Dash

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Four CEOs in five years! Yahoo was a symbol of innovation and success in its first few years of life. Founded by two Stanford Ph.D. students (Yang and Filo), Yahoo defined the Internet era of communities and sharing. It still has an enviable community using various services like email, finance, news, etc. It has lost much advertising dollars to Google. Terry Semel came from Hollywood and wanted to make it a media company. That did not work. Terry flew in every week on a private jet from LA to San Francisco and was driven in a limo to work every day. His compensation was way higher than many other CEOs at similar valley companies. Jerry Yang returned as CEO for the second time and botched up a lucrative offer from Microsoft. Yang was no Steve Jobs on his second return to the company he founded. He turned down the Microsoft offer to buy Yahoo at $47 per share (current... (more)

India 2.0: Innovation in India Happening More Slowly Than Anticipated

I just spent 3 days in Bangalore for a board meeting. Staying in south Bangalore around JP Nagar and Jayanagar area feels like the old Bangalore of yesteryears – greenery all around, spring flowers, no high rise apartment buildings, and comparatively more tranquil ambiance. Once I went to north, around Whitefield area, the new Bangalore intimidates you – huge apartment complexes, no trees, chaotic traffic and what not. All over town, one notices the construction of the new metro – the overhangs spoil the beauty of the city. Of course the area around electronic city is all concret... (more)

The Three Vs of Big Data

Big Data is a top technology trend for 2012 according to Forrester Research. The Economist said that Big Data is a new game changing asset and The Harvard Business Review termed it as a scientific revolution. Scientific Revolution? Because it is data-intensive computing to unify, theorize, experiment, and do simulation at scale. It is also termed the Fourth Paradigm – “The techniques and technologies for such data-intensive science are so different that it is worth distinguishing data-intensive science from computational science as a new, fourth paradigm for scientific explorati... (more)

Closer Look at One NoSQL Database – MongoDB

Among the new crop of NoSQL database products, MongoDB ranks quite high, in my opinion. The company that produces MongoDB is 10Gen, a venture backed new start-up since 2008. But its rapid growth over last 4 years bears testimony to its technical strength. MongoDB’s name comes from the middle five letters of the word “humongous”, meaning big data. It is an open-source, document-oriented storage which is schema-free and can entertain dynamic queries with full indexing. The programming model is BSON – binary encoding of JSON (Javascript Object Notation), a lightweight text-based op... (more)

Apple Market Value Now Exceeds $500B

Wow Apple! The market value exceeded $500B and now everyone is speculating if it will reach One Trillion, which no company has ever aspired. As I look into the valuation this morning, Apple is at $505B. Microsoft is almost at half of that at $266B. Look at the other big ones in technology sector – Oracle ($146B), Amazon($82B), Cisco ($107B), IBM ($229B), Intel ($134B), Google ($201B), and HP($50B). Other stalwarts for comparison are – Wal-Mart($202B), GE($202B), and Exxon Mobile($408B). Someone commented that if Apple was part of the Dow Jones, then the value would have exceeded... (more)