August-2000 issue
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In Praise of the Nehruvian Era
I am a senior manager from India who has met the challenges and commitments in a so-called non-enterprising Indian environment from the 1960s. I am retired and settled in the US and am trying to be...
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Cover
Over the past one and a half decades, Silicon Valley Bank has personified its own successful high-tech clientele - drive,...
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Spending on online advertising is reaching eye-catching proportions in the US. A study released in August 1999 by Forrester...
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With the onset of the breezy southwest monsoon, fresh winds of change are blowing across Karnataka, the land of coffee and...
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Although most news about online sales growth focus on the United States, the reality is that the Web has outgrown its North...
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On a cool June night at Safeco Field, home of the Seattle Mariners, perhaps the last thing one might expect to see would be a...
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SHARAD DIXIT
Chief Engineer, Raytheon ITSS at NASA
Goddard Space Flight Center, MD
Born and raised in Mumbai, I...
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On June 10, I woke up in a Washington D.C. hotel to a call from my colleague Professor Andy Whinston. “Anitesh,...
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Vijay Vashee was one of the earliest Indians to work at Microsoft. Born in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, he received his schooling in...
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Although Indians started coming to the United States as early as 1790, they only attained significant numbers toward the end...
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India has been successful in building up a strong economic foundation for sustained growth based on strong macro-economic...
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Investment banks specialize in a number of different activities in and around raising money for corporations – they...
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With volatility becoming a seemingly permanent feature of tech stocks, and institutional and retail investors alike switching...
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Cover Feature
What are “converged” networks, in the first place? The term mainly relates to standardization on the basis of...
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The semiconductor industry has never been able to rid itself of cyclical whims of its consumers. Sales typically go up and...
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Speed and the cost of technology, as well as escalating expense for nontechnical infrastructure and not to mention uncertain...
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Veteran entrepreneur Naren Gupta says he first met Y.C. (Buno) Pati at Harvard University where Pati briefly taught electrical...
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In 1990, Steve Sanghi was invited by venture capitalists to run Microchip Technologies, a company that was burning $10 million...
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Openfile
The pages that follow are our first steps into our fourth year of publication. We truly thank you, our readers who are most...
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Sam Pitroda Column
Telecom
Telecom today is a well-recognized agent of change affecting social, cultural, political and economic health of...
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