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India's Exploding Digital Economy

Harvard Business Review

Founders Forum is a franchise started by two successful UK-based entrepreneurs, Brent Hoberman and Jonnie Goodwin, to stimulate US-style entrepreneurship in the European region, and now around the world. Further, we'll see a roll-out of 4G wireless services across the country in 2012.

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Why Google Fiber Is High-Speed Internet’s Most Successful Failure

Harvard Business Review

So Google went about announcing locations, and incumbent broadband ISPs, including AT&T, CenturyLink, Comcast, and Time Warner Cable, would quickly counter by promising improved pricing, faster speeds, network upgrades or some combination of the three. A “game of gigs” had erupted. And there is evidence that they are.