Online Payment Service Providers – Opportunities and Challenges

As the usage of Internet for business transactions increases, we now have dozens of online payment service providers, of which are specific to a country and some are global.  This wikipedia page has a comprehensive list:
PayPal is the undisputed leader in online payment service providers. Google has tried to build market share for its Google [...]

Thoughts On 1000 Point Fall in Dow Jones

Create a massive fall in the market large enough to trigger stop-losses typically set up at 5% drop, and then buy blue chip stocks at 30% less price before they recover, sell Put Options at 1000% gain, blame it all on computers and trading algorithms. Some person or some company somewhere has walked away with [...]

Google Voice Updates – part 1 of n

Remember about a year or two back, Google bought a small online telephone company called GrandCentral… Google Voice is the matured version of it, and stress-tested for large scale usage (hopefully).
Google Voice is an interesting service, very much in the territory of Telecom domain, so we will have to see how it impacts/ complements/ competes [...]

Yahoo Business Results and Comparison With Google

Yahoo has reported a loss in the final three months of 2008 as the economic downturn hit sales of online ads.
It reported a loss of $303 million compared to a profit of $205 million last year.
The results come as Carol Bartz takes over from Jerry Yang as the firm’s new chief executive.
Some analysts feel Yahoo [...]

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