Mark Andreessen gave a presentation at Stanford recently. He detailed the three requirements for a successful startup: 1. Enormous market (either existing, or new) 2. A fundamental technological or economic change (the product must be “10 times” better/faster/cheaper than what’s on the market now) 3. A kick-ass founding team (tech and sales “superstars” are most [...]

Facebook recently launched Fast and Free Facebook Mobile Access with 0.facebook.com in partnership with over 50 mobile carriers. An article in TechCrunch noted “This mobile site could play a big role in Facebook’s growth going forward, especially given the predictions that browser-equipped mobile phones will be more abundant than PCs in the not-too-distant future. For [...]

Mobile phone helps reshape Indian politics and the poor “Because mobiles do not require literacy they have become a powerful tool for poor, self-employed people such as small traders, farmers, fishermen and rickshaw drivers to get information that helps save time and boost earnings.” “They describe the mobile as the ”most disruptive device to come [...]

The launch of the advanced mobile-based information system last week will boost the local farmers income, by helping them find the right place to sell their farm produce in Bhutan.

From The Age newspaper in Melbourne: Australians take to mobile internet Nearly half of all Australian mobile phone users now own an internet-capable phone, but only a third accesses the web regularly on them, according to new research by The Nielsen Company. Australians’ ownership of internet phones now sits at 43 per cent, with 29 [...]