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The Differences Between Bangalore And Silicon Valley

For years it's been common for various places to claim that they're the next Silicon Valley -- often with their own variation on the name (Silicon Prairie, Silicon Mountain, Silicon Alley, etc.). However, recently, with the focus on Thomas Friedman's book The World is Flat, the idea that anywhere can be its own Silicon Valley has gotten an awful lot of attention -- and plenty of that attention is focused on places like Bangalore, India. Apparently, though, not everyone in Bangalore agrees.

Paul Kedrosky's Infectious Greed: George and Google: "

George and Google

George Colony, the founder of Forrester Research, has built a reputation for gut calls on technology markets. No IDC-style gigabyte-sized, hundred-column spreadsheets for him, no sir. Instead, he looks at markets, companies, and technologies, let’s it all percolate inside him (I’m hypothesizing here), and then makes a gut call.

Like the one he made a year ago when he said Google would fade. Search’s lack of stickiness, he said, along with “crushing” competition from Microsoft and Yahoo!, plus a changing Internet, would collectively do the company in."

Paul Kedrosky's Infectious Greed: Consumer Technology & the Architectural Inversion

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