Author Archives: Ajit Deshpande

Last week, VMware announced that it was acquiring early Software Defined Networking leader Nicira for a deal worth ~$1.26 billion. Nicira is a trend-setter in Sotware Defined Networking (Nicira’s founders are also the inventors of OpenFlow), but the company came out of stealth mode only recently. While the company boasts a few marquee customers, its […]

On July 17th, Marissa Mayer, the early Google engineer and in more recent times one of Google’s most public faces, took over as CEO of Yahoo! As the sixth CEO of Yahoo (including interim CEOs) in the past five years, Ms. Mayer for sure has a challenging path ahead of her. Patience runs thin for […]

Digg, a once iconic company, a shining star representing ‘the wisdom of the crowds’ was acquired last week for the paltry sum of $500,000. As a social news website founded less than a year after Facebook, Digg rapidly gained users in its early years by allowing them to vote content up or down, but in […]

Over the past year or so, Netflix stock has taken significant beating, due to the company’s attempts to initially significantly raise prices on its most popular DVD + Streaming monthly subscription plan and then to separate out the DVD business to focus purely on the streaming business. Popular outrage to such decision making resulted in […]

For those interested in ‘out there’ technologies, the Google I/O developers’ conference held last week was not a disappointment at all – at the conference, Google introduced mankind’s latest step towards Singularity. A lightweight, lens-and-camera totting pair of glasses that overlays an information layer literally in front of our eyes holds interesting possibilities for the […]