China’s Online Video Leader Youku

According to research firm Analysys, China’s online video revenues grew 148% over the year to RMB 621 million (~$96 million) in Q3 last year. Youku, which has been called the YouTube of China, is the leader with over 22% of the market share, followed by Tudou with 16% share and Sohu with 13%. Youku launched

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Oracle Brings Some Cheer

Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL) last week reported strong results driven by its software business. Hardware sales continued to decline and were at the lower end of the company’s guidance. Oracle maintained that rather than revenue numbers, its focus is on increasing the profitability of its hardware business. Let’s take a closer look.

Crowdsourcing Repetitive Tasks: CrowdFlower Founder Lukas Biewald (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Lukas Biewald is the founder and executive chairman of CrowdFlower, the world’s largest enterprise crowdsourcing platform. Prior to co-founding CrowdFlower, Lukas was a senior scientist and manager within the ranking and management team at Powerset, Inc., a natural language search technology company later acquired by Microsoft.

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Jim Stikeleather, Chief Innovation Officer, Dell (Part 8)

Sramana Mitra: Flipping topics again, I want to run by a couple of trends that I am starting to see, and I would love to have your comments on those. One of them is in the area of crowdsourcing, which is a term that is relevant to different parts of a business. It doesn’t just

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Outsourcing: Manish Dugar, Senior VP And Global Head Of Wipro BPO (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: The telecom industry is looking very interesting in Africa. Manish Dugar: Yes. SM: Now, what is your read of the attrition trend in India. You have a lot of people. You have to manage very large workforces. What kind of attrition do you have to deal with? What kind of salaries, raises or wage inflation, are

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Indu Kodukula, Executive VP of Products and CTO, SunGard Availability Services (Part 1)

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) have a lot of customer and employee data to maintain and sustain. Because they lack servers large enough to support rapid growth and expansion, they enlist the aid of companies like SunGard Availability Services. With offices in the United States, Ireland, Luxembourg, France, Belgium, and Sweden, SunGard helps SMEs to

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How To Build A Strong IP Portfolio: rPost CEO Zafar Khan (Part 7)

Sramana: In your history of the 11 years, have you litigated using these patents offensively before now? Zafar Khan: Yes. As the market becomes more interesting with shorter sales cycles, it is natural that more people want to get into the marketplace. We are trying to make it more well known that we are the

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Outsourcing: Manish Dugar, Senior VP And Global Head Of Wipro BPO (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Interesting. I have heard a lot of different perspectives on that one. There is a serious interest in having work done closer [to home]. Of course, maybe there is a bit of difference between pure BPO work and more development-oriented work; the time zone issue is more significant and so forth. But I guess

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