India is struggling to add more electricity capacity for the country’s rapidly growing economy, but the domestic coal industry is an absolute mess, points out articles in the New York Times and the Economist this month. That situation means that India could possibly be one of the most high-growth solar markets in the world....
Android has propelled Samsung to the top of global smartphone (and overall mobile) sales and the operating system is flourishing in Southeast Asia, where it now accounts for half of all smartphone sales. Powered by a range of devices, the Google-owned platform’s share of smartphones sold in the region triple to account for 49...
The iPhones, the Androids, the iPads and hot-spots — whatever might be the devices, but one thing is for sure: the demand for mobile broadband is continuing to grow unabated. Two different reports, one from Akamai and another from Chetan Sharma show that we are using more mobile data in more places, and this...
Zillow, according to one report, may be closing in on a deal to buy rental marketing software maker RentJuice for $45 million, but in the meantime the online property portal is focusing on the rental market in another way: by launching its first dedicated rentals app — a free app for Android devices. Zillow...
Wrapp, a social gifting service backed by Greylock Partners and Atomico, is crossing the pond with the U.S. launch of its mobile gift card and retail app. Wrapp, which was available previously only in the UK, Norway, Sweden and Japan, Wrapp is actually launching today with a number of U.S. retailers including Fab, Gap,...
I didn’t know much about the tech scene in Israel before I left the states for Microsof’t Think Next conference. The country, often referred to as “Startup Nation”, has its stuff together when it comes to building a powerhouse of an ecosystem for technology. When I visited Mexico City, I wrote a piece called...
When your credit rating begins to fall, it’s not too bad an idea to look for new sources of cash. Also, shearing off non-core assets can help with focus, when your company is mostly moving sideways. And if you can cut out something unneeded, and raise funds at the same time, that would be...
Goldman Sachs Jim O’Neill, Chairman of Goldman Sachs Asset Management, was in the U.S. last week to host GSAM’s second Growth Markets Summit. The purpose of the summit was to pitch the BRICs (i.e. Brazil, Russia, India, and China) and other growth markets (e.g. Indonesia, Korea, Mexico, Turkey) to clients. But Apple’s extraordinary earnings...
Goldman Sachs Jim O’Neill, Chairman of Goldman Sachs Asset Management, was in the U.S. last week to host GSAM’s second Growth Markets Summit. The purpose of the summit was to pitch the BRICs (i.e. Brazil, Russia, India, and China) and other growth markets (e.g. Indonesia, Korea, Mexico, Turkey) to clients. But Apple’s extraordinary earnings...
Editor’s note: Patrick Moran is an executive at New Relic, a SaaS web app performance company with over 21,000 active customers. Follow him on Twitter @patrickmoran. With all the chatter about Billion dollar valuations — like Instagram, Evernote, Splunk — combined with recent S1 filings and IPOs, the topic of tech company valuation is coming...