May-2012 issue
Cover Story
Author: Vimali Swamy
When Ajith Bhatia sold his startup, he earned a substantial amount in concentrated stock of the acquiring company. Like any good businessperson, Bhatia knew it was a bad idea to have all his investments tied up in a single company. He...
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In My Opinion
R Ramanan
- Managing Director & CEO, CMC Ltd
Many organizations which have been around for quite a few years develop great Ability and competencies in specific areas over a...
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siTech10 2012
SI Team
The beginning of this decade has been a very promising one for the IT industry. With the markets having finally recovered in...
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SI Team
Cloud Computing seems to be the technology phrase du jour of this century. Cloud, for companies, is a cocktail of mobility,...
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SI Team
Digital media marketing is undergoing a dramatic change. Traditional digital marketing — display ads and banner ads on...
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SI Team
Companies abroad find the opportunity of outsourcing to countries like India very lucrative but still face several issues when...
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SI Team
In spite of the ubiquity of the Internet and the growth of social media, the contact center—and the voice channel in...
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SI Team
In today's IT world, providing cost arbitrage does not guaranty success as there are 'n' number of companies who provide the...
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VC talk
John Malloy
-General Partner & Co-founder, BlueRun Ventures
New trends and focus for investment
Our primary investment focus is on Mobile software and services. The biggest trend is...
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CEO Spotlight
Raja Parvez
-CEO, Rubicon Technology
In the LED market, the transition to large-diameter sapphire substrates has begun. In 2011, only about five percent of all...
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Vijay Dube
-President and CEO, Elliptic Technologies
We have entered the era of the connected consumer. With the accelerating growth of smart devices such as smartphones and...
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View Point
Jeremy King
-Senior VP & CTO, @Wal-Mart Labs
Over last five months Bentonville, Arkansas headquartered the world's largest retail company Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE: WMT)...
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In Conversation
D Richard de Silva
-Founder & CEO, Mango Games
According to Inside Social Games, India will be the second largest geography for Facebook by the end of 2012 with nearly 70...
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Management
John Treace
John R. Treace has over 30 years experience as a sales executive in the medical products industry. He spent over 10 years...
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Business
Anand Gonuguntla
-Co-Founder & CEO, Centina Systems, Inc.
The communications industry has undergone radical change over the last decade. Increased competition and the rise of the...
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Technology
Suhas Kelkar
-CTO APAC, BMC Software
The global cloud computing market is expected to grow to $121 billion by 2015, up from $37.8 billion in 2010, according to...
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Ajit Sancheti
-Co-Founder, Mu Dynamics
One of the principal challenges to developing applications in the cloud is ensuring optimized performance once an app is...
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Entrepreneur's Corner
Since my last article in April issue on Launching your Startup, one of the companies Instagram mentioned in it has already been...
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VC Chakra
SI Team
Unmetric, a social media benchmarking company catering to Fortune 500 companies, has raised $3.2 million in Series A round of...
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SI Team
DoubleDutch that makes mobile, cloud-based, geosocial applications for events and enterprises workgroups has raised $2 million...
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In Focus
SI Team
In a significant development in the quest for clean energy, three top research institutions each in India and the United States...
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SI Team
All the speculations about Bangalore losing its status of India's technology hub got hushed when a report placed Bangalore...
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Editorial
Christo Jacob
"If we want to win the future – if we want innovation to produce jobs in America and not overseas – then we also have to...
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