facebook at face value
By Azam on February 3, 2012 Add a CommentThe facebook IPO has arrived with the company filling with SEC to raise 5B in the public offering. Most startups achieve the IPO milestone to raise funds to fund growth. In the case of facebook, the company may have reached…
Continue Reading...Ness Being More Subjective on Search
By Azam on July 19, 2011 Add a Comment 
Ness is working on developing highly personalized search engine and recently received 5M from investors. Vinod Khosla of Khosla Ventures lead the Series A round, with participation from Alsop Louie Partners, TomorrowVentures, Bullpen Capital, and Angel investors.
The Alsop-incubated company is…
Continue Reading...Social Networking Falling Under the Influence of Others
By Azam on June 6, 2011 Add a Comment
Social Networking is a powerful tool in sharing and decimating information across a network. I have been thinking on this idea for some time from telecom to statecraft. In telecom, networks are geared towards passing data to nodes and the…
Continue Reading...Groupon is a lot like Group Sex
By Azam on June 3, 2011 Add a Comment
Everyone wants to have some fun at first and things get too messy and ultimately you are disappointed. You do not want to let others know you caught up there in between all of it. Groupon was fun in the beginning…
Continue Reading...Mobile Payment is Getting Very Near
By Azam on May 24, 2011 Add a Comment
Google and Sprint set to announce today the launch of mobile payment using Near Field Technology. The market for mobile payment is heating up with launch of NFC technology and commercial availability. The mobile payment service requires a NFC semi…
Measure Your LocalResponse
By Azam on May 11, 2011 Add a Comment
Local Response has changed the buzzd model of location awareness into measuring the different response across different social applications. The model is more helpful than being tied to a single location application such as foursquare or gowalla. LocalResponse goes beyond…
Continue Reading...In the Food Business
By Azam on April 26, 2011 Add a Comment
The future is in food or some have said more recently. I am not really talking about agriculture and need to feed the world fast growing populations. I am talking about hunting and gathering online and social networking to find…
Continue Reading...On the Right Path
By Azam on April 4, 2011 Add a Comment 
Path is the new social networking tool being developed by Dave Morin the ex facebooker focusing on real friends. Path is available as an iPhone app, and if focusing on sharing photos. Path is focused on the closest 50 friends…
Trada Optimizes the Crowd
By Azam on March 31, 2011 Add a Comment
Trada bring in the crowd to help optimize online search advertising in simple words. Online campaigns just got easier with Trada helping to identify the right key words for your campaign. The online world of advertising is quite daunting and…
Continue Reading...VivoTech Brings Life to Near Field Communications for Mobile Payments
By Azam on March 29, 2011 Add a Comment
Vivotech is the leader in NFC mobile payments systems and is behind the technology most of dominant players are using to deliver to ease and convenience of mobile payment systems
ViVOtech’s reader devices rely on a technology called Near Field Comminications,…
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