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Being an avid user of Apple and all of its products since 1994 (except Apple TV), I have 3 major problems with iPhone6. If Steve jobs was alive, may be he would have never released this phone to market. 1. The Camera: iPhone has a camera which protrudes out. Ouch!!! So beautify designed product, except […]

The start of the New Year is a good time to reflect on the year past and to make a new start, whether in your career, your relationships or your health. Post these quotes in areas where you can see them as the year starts and keep them in mind throughout the year to help

I finished reading SAP CEO Bill McDermott’s book  Winners Dream: A Journey from Corner Store to Corner Office I enjoyed the reading because its simple, straight forward and touches the heart. There is no complicated jargon, no mega theories  and no big company CEO  speak. It makes you feel you are talking to a friend in

http://www.businessinsider.com/nick-bostrom-hopes-theres-no-life-on-mars-2014-9 But India’s MOM was more a defence mission than simple space odyssey. Right? Imagine you can launch a rocket deep into space and change direction to land/blast at a specific target. Remember star wars? Who needs ICBMs and other missiles?

Finished reading “Hard Thing About Hard Things” by Ben Horowitz. I couldn’t keep it down till I finished reading!! This is a “must read” book for all leaders, CEOs, CxOs and would-be entrepreneurs. With a great mix of funny quotes and rap snippets, he has narrated the story of how he built his companies and

Whats app got sold for a cool $19Billion to Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB). But why should Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL  ) stock jump? There are some 450Million users of Whats App. So their CLTV (Customer lifetime value) works approximately $55/user. Apple has SOLD at least 500Million+ iPhones. All of them comes installed with iMessage. And most users use this app anyway. And

I had predicted earlier that Netflix may lose out. That was in 2012. I was wrong on this prediction. What a change 2 years can make! Last few hours watched House of Cards – 2 on a binge. Frank Underwood will make NetFlix win! Netflix will emerge as the unique leader of content creation and distribution.

I had predicted that by 2015, google would sell Motorola by taking a $9.5Billion loss!! http://money.cnn.com/2014/01/29/technology/mobile/motorola-lenovo/  

As we come close to the end of 2013..I wanted to look at my predictions for 2015. In 2011 I had made 10 predictions for 2015. (https://giridevanur.com/innovation/tech-predictions-for-2015) Lets see how they have fared: 10. 3-D TV as a concept would have failed – Sony would be the hardest hit in this.  Does anyone want to sit at home and

Just finished reading 2 interesting books: 1. On sales http://www.amazon.com/The-Art-Sale-Learning-Business/dp/B00B1L8M3E/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1382788463&sr=8-1&keywords=art+of+the+sale When Philip Delves Broughton went to Harvard Business School, an experience he wrote about in hisNew York Times bestseller Ahead of the Curve, he was baffled to find that sales was not on the curriculum.  Why not, he wondered?  Sales plays a part in everything we do—not