About Abdul

Just a decade ago, the idea of moving money that quickly and cheaply would have been ridiculous. Checks took ages to clear. Transferring money from one bank account to another could take days, as banks leisurely handed off funds, levying fees nearly every step of the way. Credit cards made it a little easier to pass money to a friend — provided that friend owned a credit card reader and didn’t mind paying a few percentage points in fees or waiting a couple of days for the payment to process. Read more…

Google acquired social search manager Aardvark for $50 million , collaboration toolmaker AppJet for $80 million and email search appmaker reMail for $120 million. What do they have in common ? They were all recently acquired by Google after being founded by former Google employees. So now those founders are returning to Google. This new corporate terminology is called Spin-in where employees break off from the company to start their own venture and then rejoin the company through an acquisition. Read more…

We all get excited when our company moves from niche player to visionary and on the cusp of becoming a leader in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant.  Yes, I know what you are thinking – how much did you pay them over the years.  And where there is smoke there is fire as those statements ring true but at the end of the day Gartner’s Quadrant is important for anyone selling to IT professional because buyers of technology care about what Gartner has to say. Read more…

For a company, one of the most successful ways to gain the upper hand on a competitor is to change the rules of the game in such a way that the competitor would need to abandon or destroy its core business in order to lay chase to your strategy. This thinking, which was chronicled in Clay Christiansen’s The Innovator’s Dilemma, is the key premise behind the success of Google. Google’s giving away products or services for Free was the first step towards implementing their competitor outsmarting strategy. Today, with Android smartphone OS Google has shown the next step of their brilliance. Read more…

Content is king. Content is the network. Content is the interface. In an increasingly interconnected world, content quality is rapidly becoming the difference between success and failure. FaceBook vs. Orkut /Google vs. Cuil / NetFlix vs. BlockbusterOnline…. the list is endless where battles have been won and lost on the content battlefield. Read more…