NBC Universal Launches Digital Solutions Business In India; More Planned

NBC Universal has launched their digital solutions business in India: NBCU Digital Solutions (NBCUDS) is a newly created business within NBCU, which intends to provide publishers in India with the products and expertise that NBCU has previously deployed for their own digital businesses; as usage and traffic grows, sites built need to be built in [...]

A bit of Rajeev Motwani in every technology: Google co-founder

"Today, whenever you use a piece of technology, there is a good chance a little bit of Rajeev Motwani is behind it," wrote Google co-founder Sergey Brin on his mentor's death. "Officially, Rajeev was not my advisor, and yet he played just as big a ...

Buzzing Posts Recap

If you have missed any of the popular and buzzing posts on trak.in in last month, worry not, here is a recap of them in one single monthly digest. The reason why E-Commerce does not grow in India ! Boy George is at it again. He wants to bring the jobs back from Bangalore to Buffalo. Can outsourcing [...]

Stanford Prof And Google Backer Rajeev Motwani Dies

In a shocking development, Rajeev Motwani, the Stanford professor who had been one of the seed investors in Google, was found dead in his home in Palo Alto, California. His body was found in the swimming pool at his backyard, according to Dan Stober, Director of Media Relations at Stanford University. The cause of the death of the 47-year old professor is not known. Motwani apparently did not know how to swim but was planning to take lessons. He had moved into the house three years ago with his wife (Asha Jadeja who is running Dot Edu Ventures) and two daughters. Motwani had taught Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, and had also backed them providing a part of the startup capital in the initial stages of the company. Motwani has been invloved with scores of startups and also been part of venture community in the Silicon Valley. Motwani was born in New Delhiu in 1962. He went IIT Kanpur and graduated from there in 1983 and received his doctorate from University of California, Berkley, in 1988. Motwani's research interests include databases, data mining, information retrieval, and web searching. The other topics include computational and combinatorial geometry with applications to robotics and vision; computational biology and automated drug design. Design and analysis of algorithms with emphasis on approximations, online computations, and randomised algorithms, as well as related complexity theory, according to his profile page on Stanford University website.

Weekly Digest (29th May-5th June 2009)

Date: 29th to 5th June 2009 Segments: Interviews, Stats, Editors Picks, Your Picks, Industry News For Previous Editions: Weekly Digest Archive Interviews Dr. Kailash Choudhuri, MD, Aksh Optifibre – On Raising $10-15M and Financian Performance – On Time Shift TV, Adverts On IPTV, Raising Rates 20-30%, Carriage Fees TN Prabhu – On Audio Cinema: Licensing, Results Of Trial Runs, Programming Editors Picks – [...]

Indian Digital And Media Stocks Announcements For Week Ending 5 June 2009

Bharti Airtel 6 June 2006:Allotment of equity shares 5 June 2006:Notice of Postal Ballot Deccan Chronicle 4 June 2009:Change in Directorate Geodesic 5 June 2009:Regulation 8A of SEBI (SAST) Regulations 3 June 2009:Reg.13-SEBI(Prohibition of Insider Trading Regulations)1992 Idea Cellular 2 June 2009:Idea Cellular Limited has submitted to the Exchange the copies each, of the Notices of the Court Convened Meeting(s) of the Equity [...]

Sharepod Works With Palm Pre

It is known that Sharepod is great tool if you want to free up your iPod from iTunes. It is also known that Palm Pre supports iTunes. So as I suspected, I tried using SharePod with Palm Pre and guess what?Palm Pre completely supports SharePod. So if you don't want to download iTunes to sync your Palm Pre music, you might want to download SharePod.  

Equity investments | Vc funds bet big on listed firms

Traditionally such firms invest largely in early- stage companies Mumbai: The non-existent primary market for equities over the better part of last year may have delayed at least five exits for Sequoia Capital India Advisors Pvt. Ltd, but that hasn't ...

Play your own game

Business LinePlay your own gameBusiness Line, IndiaWith the T20 World Cup on, Dream11 Gaming Pvt Ltd recently announced the launch of the Dream11.com, currently in Beta, a Web 2.0 cricket portal that promises an evolved user interface and advanced community features to offer a fantasy cricket game. ...

A Map Of Social (Network) Dominance

Even on the Web, world dominance must be achieved one country at a time. While Facebook has long been the largest social network in the world, and should soon pass MySpace in the U.S., it is not the largest social network in every country. The map above created by Vincenzo Cosenza resembles more a game of Risk, with Facebook sweeping across the globe from the West. Using Alexa and Google Trend data, Cosenza color-coded the map based on which social network is the most popular in each country. All of the light green countries belong to Facebook. But there are still pockets of resistance in Russia (where V Kontakte rules), China (QQ), Brazil and India (Orkut), Central America, Peru, Mongolia, and Thailand (hi5), South Korea (Cyworld), Japan (Mixi), the Middle East (Maktoob), and the Philippines (Friendster).