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Monday, June 04, 2018

Battle in India for e-commerce market leadership is no longer between just Amazon and Flipkart

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Amazon Launches Prime Music in India. What It Means for the Indian e-commerce Market O n a day when it was reported that the online...
Wednesday, May 30, 2018

Fortune 500 and the Art of Execution

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The  Fortune 500 Companies 2018  rankings came out last week, and browsing the list, the following random thoughts struck me about the list...
Monday, May 28, 2018

Big Data Introduction - Workshop

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Our focus was clear - this was a level 101 class, for IT professionals in Bangalore who had heard of Big Data, were interested in Big ...
Monday, August 28, 2017

Infosys, NRN Murthy, and Vishal Sikka - No One's Smelling of Roses

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C orporate sagas seem to come in twos. The  mega-fracas  that erupted in 2016 between  Cyrus Mistry , then Chairman of Tata Sons, and ...
Friday, August 04, 2017

Six Plus One Types of Interviewers

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R emember Chuck Noland? The character in the movie Castaway, who has to use the blade of an ice-skate to extract his abscessed tooth,...
Tuesday, July 25, 2017

Management Mantra for Startups - Waste Not, Vacate Not

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Image credit: pexels.com Waste Not, Vacate Not. W hen Jeff Bezos , founder and CEO of Amazon, started out Amazon, he, along w...
Friday, June 30, 2017

Usability, Product Management, and LinkedIn - a rant

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L inkedIn began as a professional networking site, has evolved into a social media behemoth, and has yet managed to maintain and sharpen...
Monday, May 22, 2017

The Dark Cloud of the H1-B Fallout for Indian Companies: Layoffs or Reduced Valuations

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I ndia's second-largest IT company, Infosys, put out a press release on the 2nd of May, 2017 ( link ), that it would be hiring ...
Friday, April 07, 2017

Oracle Looking to Buy Accenture? Stranger Things Have Happened.

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Image credit: pixels.com The Register reported that Oracle may be exploring the "feasibility of buying multi-billion dollar con...
Saturday, March 04, 2017

Amazon Launches Prime in India. Can Flipkart Stay ‘First’?

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O n the 27th of June, 2016, Amazon launched the first of its first AWS (Amazon Web Services) data centers in India, in Mumbai. Amazon ...
Tuesday, February 21, 2017

Flipkart and the Executive Revolving Door

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T he contrast could not have been more striking, or poignant. 2017 began on a sombre note for Flipkart, when it announced on the 9th of J...
Friday, January 27, 2017

Flipkart: Million-Dollar Hiring Mistakes

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Flipkart: Million-Dollar Hiring Mistakes Translate Into Billion-Dollar Valuation Erosions As the week drew to a close, a story that broke ...
Thursday, July 07, 2016

Privacy - InMobi Pays $1M In Penalties

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image credit: WDnet Agency, pexels.com In 2015 I had written a series of articles on the e-commerce battle between Flipkart and Amaz...
Thursday, October 01, 2015

Rise of the Robots - Review

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Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future Martin Ford Part 1 of 3 " I'm smart; you're dumb. I...
Saturday, July 04, 2015

Flipkart, ecommerce, machine learning, and free advice

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I wrote about the obsession of Flipkart (and Myntra) with "mobile-only" without even having an iPad-optimized app! I also talked ...