This is a bit off the usual technology topics, but interesting nonetheless. As the economy continues to shrink in the US, jobs continue to be lost and homes continue to be foreclosed. Some people are forced into it and others are proactively taking the opportunity to rethink their lives, their needs and wants. One such [...]
It’s not just SAP that’s rockin’ the house as far as the local market goes. Oracle is making waves too. Two significant deals were closed by Oracle recently, Wi-tribe, the third largest WiMAX service provider in Pakistan, and International Industries, a conglomerate. Previously, Oracle’s Peoplesoft solution has been adopted by several educational institutions in the [...]
We’ve covered US-based ClearCube Technologies here previously. Today, they came out with a particularly interesting announcement that should get many resellers and integrators in Pakistan excited!
ClearCube will be launching a low-cost, pre-integrated Virtual Desktop bundle that makes centralized computing and desktop virtualization technology accessible to small and medium businesses. In most of Asia, would-be buyers [...]
I threw out a hypothetical question a few months ago. At the time, Netsol had a greatly diminished $24M market cap and I was wondering why a private company like Systems Ltd. wouldn’t just buy Netsol, consolidate, streamline, take it private and grow the business. If I was casually wondering then, I’m keenly curious now! [...]
There’s been a lot of press lately about India’s “$10″ laptop. Before many details were available, it was hailed as a great stride forward in systems design and we were all anxious to learn what groundbreaking innovations had enabled a laptop to be built so cheaply. As more has come out in the open about [...]
So let’s continue where we left off a few days ago. If you need to catch up with the first part of this article, simply click here. For those of you who are up to speed, let’s charge forth.
We’ve already looked at how the diminishing importance of large amounts of capital have made VC less [...]
