Category: Business

PetroChina becomes world’s biggest company by Market Cap

Post author By goelp
Post date November 5, 2007
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This year recorded the biggest opening for a movie ever as Spider-Man 3 (~$60 million), biggest opening for a video game as Halo 3 (~$170 million) and now the biggest opening for a stock market IPO as China’s PetroChina with a market capitalization of $1.1 Trillion!

PetroChina Co. almost tripled on its first day of trading in Shanghai, becoming the world’s first company to be valued at $1 trillion, more than Exxon Mobil Corp. and General Electric Co. combined [next two in the rankings].

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Future of User interface – Multi-touch?

Post author By srungta
Post date October 31, 2007

WOW! Minority Report’s “futuristic” UI is now real! 🙂

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Business India

Where India Outsources

With the world rushing to India for outsourcing, Indian companies are seeking opportunities in other low-cost countries to cut down wages.

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To be or not to be – in Silicon Valley

Post author By goelp
Post date October 11, 2007

I had the opportunity to attended the Future of Web Apps (FOWA) conference in London 3-5 October ’07. A key talk I eagerly awaited was one by Paul Graham on “The Future of Web Startups“. In his talk, Graham made a point, that to really succeed startups need to move to a hub like, and especially, Silicon Valley.

Ryan Carson, the organiser of the event, was not convinced by Graham’s claim and asserted his opinion on the stage after the talk. According to him, startups needn’t be in Silicon Valley to succeed.

This confutation was catered-to by Paul Graham in his following article/essay “Why to move to a startup hub” which in-turn spawned a debate led by Ryan Carson here and here.

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Inkless printing with Zink

A small hand-held printer is one of many upcoming products from Zink which produces inkless polaroid quality, water proof prints instantly. “The core of the technology is the paper, which is layered with crystals that, when melted at specific temperatures, become colored.” – [via VentureBeat]

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‘Green’ architecture at its best

Post author By goelp
Post date September 14, 2007

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) have designed a 71-story, 2.2-million-square-foot net-zero-energy-skyscraper called Pearl River Tower as the headquarters of CNTC Guangdong Tobacco Company in new city of Guangzhou, China. The high-tech design employs four ways to make it environmentally friendly: reduction, reclamation, absorption and generation. Check the link for pictures. – [via BD4D]

SOM’s Pearl River Tower

Business Technology

Sun to sell Windows Server boxes!

Post author By goelp
Post date September 13, 2007

“In a rather stunning bit of news, Microsoft and Sun Micorsystems announced at a press conference that Sun has signed up to become a Windows Server Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM), selling Sun x64-based servers that come bundled with Microsoft Windows Server 2003.” – ars technica

Sun to sell Windows Server boxes

Business Education Technology

Facebook @ Stanford

You know a web application/platform has become mainstream when there is a course at Stanford University on it. A course called “Create Engaging Web Applications Using Metrics and Learning on Facebook” will be added to Computer Science depatement’s offerings at Stanford this fall. – via VentureBeat

Facebook to take over Stanford classroom