Even as the world become flatter and the economy global in every sense of the word,  much of the power on social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter still resides with a handful of people in USA. While Google may have granted its Indian offices the power to yank sites from Orkut when they deem fit, the fact is that Google HQ really calls the shots. More...

CyberMedia is the largest specialty media house in South Asia and amongst India's top five magazine publishers.  Its stable includes such respected magazines like Dataquest, PCQuest and DQ Week.  The group has 12 websites led by Ciol.com. Needless to say CyberMedia is one of the most powerful voices in tech India More...

Refer a job and earn money was a great business idea indeed. Thousands of rupees for just emailing a good job opportunity to a friend. But this idea didn’t come from any of the giants of Indian job portal market. Instead it was from a newbie called Yellojobs.com. This was Yellojobs first shot at fame, and also the last. More...

Om Malik and Rafat Ali are two Indians who went to the USA and created successful blogging groups.  Om Malik owns GigaOM and Rafat launched paidContent.  Both are highly regarded and their blogs widely read in USA and elsewhere. In 2008, international media reported that Rafat Ali had sold paidContent for $30 million. More...

US-based The Chilling Effects Clearinghouse collects and analyzes legal complaints about online activity, helping net users to know their rights and understand the law.  The aim of this exercise is to stop unwarranted legal threats.  Chilling Effects is supported by EFF, Harvard, Berkeley, Stanford and other elite institutes. More...

Every week, Indian media reports on how China is trying to intimidate us.  Grabbing land in Arunachal and JK, granting special visas to Kashmiris, blocking our World Bank loans and so on.  The Indian Govt has tried a diplomatic approach in the past which has not worked.  It seems a bully only understands the language of force. More...

Facebook is the hottest social networking site in the world with more than 350 million members.  In India, it is fast catching up with Google’s Orkut. Facebook was founded by billionaire Mark Zuckerberg who is one of the most influential people in the world. In 2008, Techgoss had offered a reward of Rs 10,000 for details of Zuckerberg’s secret visit to India. More...

Many tech firms hold online competitions as a brand building strategy.  Most ensure strict rules so that the contest is free and fair. A rule of most contests is that employees of the company cannot participate to ensure outsiders don’t feel disadvantaged. The Google India Logo design competition barred Google workers and their families from participating  More...

When Google went public in 2004, its brilliant founders Segey Brin and Larry Page spoke about their idealism in the IPO document: “Don't be evil. We believe strongly that in the long term, we will be better served-as shareholders and in all other ways-by a company that does good things for the world even if we forgo some short term gains.” More...

Early 2009, Infosys HR boss Mr. Mohandas Pai (whom many call ‘Quick Sack Murugan’) publicly labeled 2100 juniors that it sacked as ‘non performers’. Senior managers whose variable pay was cut were not labeled ‘non-performers’. Techgoss had then questioned why, like the laws of the jungle, only those who could not fight back were labeled ‘non-performers’. More...