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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 ...
Monday, June 08, 2015

Creepy Dolls - A Technology and Privacy Nightmare!

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This post was first published on LinkedIn on 20th May, 2015 . " Hi, I'm Chucky. Wanna play? "[1]  Fans of the horror film ...
Wednesday, June 03, 2015

Flipkart and Focus 4 - Beware the Whispering Death

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The fourth part of my series on Flipkart and its apparent loss of Focus and its battle with Amazon appeared in DNA on April 20th, 2015 . ...
Wednesday, May 20, 2015

Flipkart and Focus 3 - There’s Something (Profitable) About Your Privacy

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The third in my series on Flipkart and focus appeared in DNA on April 18th, 2015 . Part III – There’s Something (Profitable) About Yo...
Saturday, May 09, 2015

Flipkart and Focus - 2 - Mobile Advertising Numbers Can Be Misleading

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The second part of my series of articles on why I believed Flipkart was at losing focus, at the wrong time, when faced with its most seriou...
Wednesday, April 22, 2015

Flipkart and Focus - 1 - Losing It?

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This is the first of a series of articles I wrote for DNA in April on why I believed Flipkart (India's largest online retailer and amon...
Tuesday, February 03, 2015

Big changes ahead for India's IT majors

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My article on challenges confronting the Indian IT majors was published in DNA in January 2015. Here is the complete text of the article...
Thursday, January 15, 2015

Flipakart's Billion Dollar Sale, And A Few Questions

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My article on Flipkart's Billion Dollar Sale and an article that appeared in a business daily on the preparations that went into it w...