Technology
Jack Ma of Alibaba on Entrepreneurship
Indian internet entrepreneurs usually follow the US market and are usually very well acquainted with the key players. However, Chinese market is seldom followed and rarely understood. Its a pity given that it is the single largest market on Internet. Its also a market where the US majors have failed to make inroads and the [...]
Interesting Reads – 25 June 2010
Economics and Finance The Long Now of Finance update. An ongoing attempt to see what the world of finance be in 10,000 years from now. Making it fun to save. A very interesting idea to enable savings products on top of the usual no frills account that financial inclusion typically provides. The average credit rating [...]
RAMClouds – an evolutionary concept in Cloud Computing
If you ask an architect or a performance engineer for ways to speed up any application, caching is most likely to be the first response. In this, an application in its entirety or at least the most frequently executed part is cached in the RAM of a server leading to faster response and hence faster [...]
Interesting Reads
Challenges to India’s growth story India’s path to being an economic superpower and the challenges on way are commonly discussed topics. The most frequently cited challenge is the poor infrastructure. Somehow another one, social inequity and internal strife, is seldom discussed in spite of it being stated as a larger challenge by many reports. Its [...]