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About Varun Ananthula

Alpha VibaZoner Varun Ananthula is an expert business analyst. Varun holds more than 6 years of experience in IT Consultancy, Entrepreneurship, Business Planning and Strategy. Varun’s range of experience and depth of knowledge now allows him to adapt to diverse and fast moving sectors. He holds an MBA from EDHEC Business School, France and a Bachelor's degree from IIT-Madras, India. Online Drugstore,buy cialis with prescription,Free shipping,provigil order online,Discount 10%, sildalis order online

Mobile Payments Ecosystem – Relevance and Developments

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Mobile Payment is not a new concept in the commercial world, in the early 2000s when European mobile operators started launching GPRS-based data services they had targeted payments as a key opportunity. But, as with a lot of innovations that come before their time, the infrastructure was not fully developed, the services not completely streamlined and most importantly the customers’ behavior and mindset had not yet adapted to this concept. By the mid-2000s the mobile payment services were reasonably successful in Japan and South Korea – markets that are known to be early adopters of ICT and mobile technology.

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Immigration and Its Effect on Innovation

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Mark Zuckerberg, CEO and Founder of Facebook, is reportedly in the process of launching an independent political group to lobby for comprehensive immigration reform. Even though Silicon Valley is strongly associated with H1B visas, it is reported that Zuckerberg’s effort will be broader including possible citizenship for undocumented immigrants. This news has brought back the discussion about Immigration Policies into the forefront of online media – how it affects a nation, its economy and more importantly, due to Zuckerberg’s and Facebook’s association with entrepreneurship and innovation, one key topic of discussion is does immigration effect entrepreneurship and innovation in a nation.

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Is a work-from-home policy beneficial to your company?

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“Anti-innovation!”, “counter-intuitive”, “unproductive”, etc. …. These are few out of the many comments being thrown around in the internet world when the news leaked online that Marissa Mayer (Yahoo) has decided to ban virtual work arrangements i.e. work-from-home options at Yahoo. But not all are against this decision – there are several Yahoo employees, external experts and general internet public who support this decision for reasons ranging from mitigating mismanagement to compatibility with the policies of top innovative companies like Apple and Google.

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