A tiny software company called meebo opened a new channel of communication on the Web. Now, if you have a Web page your visitors can talk to you using instant messaging, even if you’re away from your home computer.
While there are several others who had their fingers in the web based instant messaging pie, Meebo is the efficient and easiest of all.
Wealth creation and not wealth redistribution must be our goal. Creating enabling conditions for entrepreneurs, celebrating their successes and promoting entrepreneurs as role models is a critical part of the task ahead.
As HCL celebrates its 30th Anniversary, Prof. C.K.Prahalad reflects on the nature of entrepreneurship that makes such success possible. It may be useful to distill the core elements of its success.
Those core elements are relevant not only for HCL, but for Indian business, he reckons.
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In Night at the Museum, Ben Stiller plays a bumbling security guard who accidentally unleashes an ancient curse that brings to life all the statues and preserved animals in the American Museum of Natural History, wreaking havoc on New York City. Going by the data from Hollywood Stock Exchange, this movie slated for Thanksgiving release, is projected to bring in $215 million for 20th Century Fox, the highest box office receipts for any film released during the critical holiday season.
The exchange was founded by two men, one who worked in financial services and the other an economist, who both loved movies. HSX gives traders just enough information to be able to play the market. But it collects a great deal more data and uses sophisticated models to project the demographic makeup of a movie audience. It can tell if a certain film will appeal to men in the 18 to 34 age group or whether it will play well with women over 35.
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