Internet in India
For startups that receive institutional funding ESOPs are a very handy instrument to attract and retain employees. Earlier the rules of ESOPs (employee stock options) were attractive, but somewhere down the road the rules became draconian. According to today's Economic Times the govt is considering to rewrite the rules. Currently when an … [Read more] about Govt of India ‘should’, not ‘may’ rewrite ESOP rules
For those who are following tech news, they would have heard about employees of major companies such as Google, Amazon and Microsoft protesting the direction their employer was taking. A recent newsletter summarized these walkouts. 20,000 Google employees participated in a walk-out, as well as an organized awareness campaign, to end forced … [Read more] about Will India allow Employees to have a say in the Business Direction?
After 13 amazing years at Greynium (Oneindia), I am moving on from the Company I started. It has been a long and fruitful journey for and I have enjoyed every minute of it. How The Internet Journey Started I started my journey with internet technologies in 1990 while studying at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. In fact, we were using … [Read more] about Goodbye Oneindia
The last Presidential elections in the US (2016) were overshadowed by many controversies, one of the main ones being the Russians were able to influence many American voters on Facebook. Post the US elections, other countries too warned Facebook of meddling with their elections (Germany). One of the main issues during the US elections was that … [Read more] about Twitter, Facebook, Google And General Elections 2019 of India
Just recently few state elections concluded (Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Mizoram) and two big ones are going to be held on December 7, 2018 (Rajasthan and Telangana). Earlier I wrote general elections 2019 will be good for digital ad revenues in India. From what I saw these recently held state elections did not fetch any ad revenues for … [Read more] about Assembly elections in India not helping digital ad revenues