• Citibank CEO Vikram Pandit on Charlie Rose last night

    Image via Wikipedia Yesterday I posted about how the current financial crisis was an opportunity to learn about how the global financial markets function. Another great resource for digging deeper is Charlie Rose‘s show on PBS. Last night he had Citibank CEO Vikram Pandit on for the hour.  As one…

  • Consider this an opportunity to learn about the world of finance

    Image by LunaDiRimmel via Flickr Over the last few months, we’ve seen a roller coaster ride of unequaled magnitude in the financial markets.  Having been in the institutional banking world myself, I’ve had many friends and colleagues ask me if I can make sense of what is going on out…

  • Tibco’s Greg the Architect: ROI

    Now this is one of the better offbeat advertising campaigns I’ve seen for enterprise software: Tibco, a major player in the SOA space, came up with the Greg the Architect campaign.  It’s a pretty funny look into the world of the IT foot soldier in a big company.  I particularly…

  • Twitter and Values of n come together to make…?

    Image by Tim in Sydney via Flickr The founder of a small, but interesting, little company called Values of n recently announced that Twitter had purchased the web productivity company, and that he – Rael Dornfest – would be joining Twitter.  Most people I know haven’t heard of Values of…

  • Indian Navy responds to piracy in the Gulf of Aden

    [Off Topic Post] Image of the INS Tabar, which sank a Somali Pirate ship (via Wikipedia ) Back in June, I wrote a post on how the Indian Navy was finally being recognized, both inside and outside India, as a needed force for stability on the dangerous trade routes that…

  • Amazon continues its cloud computing build out

    Image via Wikipedia With the release of CloudFront, Amazon continues to build out a full selection of cloud computing offerings.  With CloudFront even small developers can gain the power of a global content distribution network (much like Akamai).  Werner Vogels, Amazon CTO, explains the service in this post: Expanding the…

  • TiVo and Domino’s: The question is ‘Why?!?!’

    Image via Wikipedia Jerry Yang is stepping down, as we all know, but the most important tech news has to do with pizza.  Perhaps customer service does have its natural limits…and I believe this has crossed that boundary: TIVO ADDS DOMINO’S PIZZA TO ITS MENU – TiVo Karen Bressner, Senior…

  • Yang out as Yahoo! CEO

    Image via Wikipedia There’s probably been too much blame piled on Jerry Yang since he returned as CEO of Yahoo!, but I wonder who would want to take his position now?  I guess the successor will have the job of chopping up the company and selling it off: Yang To…

  • Twitter for Business webcast from O’Reilly

    Image via CrunchBase As a regular user of Twitter I often get asked by business people if I see value in using the micro-blogging service for business.  While the nuances of twitter may vary if you are in marketing, customer support, or other parts of an enterprise,  I do think…

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