I was chatting with my father today and he’s been watching the news about Microsoft’s $240M (1.6%) stake in Facebook. My father has taught me a lot, and he is well in-tuned with the big businesses he invests in, among them Costco, Best Buy, Boeing, and, important to this news, Microsoft. He’s had [...]

Food fighting has come a long way, and its quite intriguing to see how history repeats itself, and concepts continually evolve while maintaining an undercurrent of themes, values, rules, and such. Some are keen enough to identify those opportunities, quickly. Business 2.0 published an article, called “The man who started the foodfight“, highlighting [...]

Discovery Channel was showing a documentary on The World, another magnificent paradise project designed by Nakheel and endorsed by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum. The World is a set of man-made islands that are shaped and positioned to resemble the lands and waters of the earth. The project follows the steps of [...]

Today I went to a networking event for The Indus Entrepreneurs (TIE). As I was driving to the event near the Univ of California Irvine, I thought about how many times I would have to explain how I left the company I co-founded after six months and what I was pursuing now. [...]

The head of Yahoo! Research, Prabhakar Raghavan, recently spoke at WWW2007. I didn’t attend the conference, but found some interesting notes (here). On one hand, he speaks to how it is important that we make data and the processing of data much smarter, so that we spend less time querying and deducing [...]