We need to think from a long-term perspective: Probir Roy
Rediff interview with Probir Roy, co-founder and director, PayMate.
PayMate is a mobile payments company spun off by founders of Coruscant Tec. Sherpalo Ventures and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, two of Silicon Valley’s most reputed venture capital firms invested about $5 million in the company this year.
You can soon pay your shopping, restaurant, [...]
In India, the Future of the Internet Will Be Built around the Mobile Phone
Knowledge@Wharton interviewed Indian internet icon Rajesh Jain.
Rajesh started India’s first internet portal — IndiaWorld — which was sold in November 1999 for $115 million to Sify. He is now the CEO of Netcore, the company where I work.
I believe another dimension will define the future of the Internet in India, and that’s going to be [...]
Third Party Billing will soon come into mobile content business
Sahad of ContentSutra has done an interview with Rajiv Hiranandani of mobile content provider Mobile2Win.
The company is from Alok Kejriwal’s Contests2Win stable. It was set up in September 2003 and employs 90 people currently.
He makes some interesting points. Overall a good interview to read.
We are not a media company. A B2C model requires hundreds of [...]
Interview with Sanjeev Sharma
Business Standard has an interview with outgoing Nokia India head Sanjeev Sharma, who will quit the company on June 30.
Sanjeev Sharma stepped down as MD of Nokia India after he was asked to move to Singapore as regional head of marketing. He declined to go abroad for a larger role in Nokia because he thought [...]
Why Bharti isn’t acquiring abroad
Sunit Mittal shares the problems faced by Bharti in its attempts to go global. He says the valuations of operators worldwide have been driven to crazy heights by the Chinese and Middle-East investors.
Asset prices are being driven by the Chinese, who have the go-ahead from their government to go and acquire, and Middle East investors, [...]
Subhash Menon on Subex
ET has an interview with Subhash Menon, founder and Chairman of Subex Systems. Subex acquired UK based Azure, the largest player in the revenue assurance space, a couple of weeks ago.
Subex is a $40-m company and is making an acquisition that is a stock-plus-cash deal exceeding $140 million.
Subex and Azure offer revenue assurance soltutions to [...]
The making of Sunil Bharti Mittal
Sunil Mittal shared his thoughts on new opportunities in the Indian economy and Bharti’s rise as a telecom giant, in his convocation address at the IIM Bangalore. Here are some key points collected from various sources.
Mittal came out of college in 1976. The period 1976 to 1985 was “a period of great struggle, of great [...]
Alternate payment methods
Excerpt from an interview with Promod Haque, Managing Partner of Norwest Venture Partners:
As mobile users in India are increasing, wireless data services and products continue to be extremely interesting investment opportunities for our firm. India also has low credit card penetration, and we believe there are opportunities for companies to create alternate online payment methods.
One [...]
Interview with Allen Burnes of Motorola
The Financial Express has an interview with Allen Burnes, VP - High Growth Markets, Mobile Devices. Motorola Mobile Devices has established its High Growth Market (HGM) headquarters in Delhi with the senior management team relocating to India right now.
In fact, between 1991 and today, India has emerged as an R&D hub for Motorola. Several critical [...]
Research makes the game better
Interview with Salil Bhargava, chief marketing officer of Reliance Infocomm funded mobile game maker Paradox Studios, who leads all international business development, strategy and marketing initiatives of the company. Nothing much in the interview except a few tidbits.
Paradox is aggregating and distributing content to carriers in association with international partners like Global Wireless Entertainment for [...]
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