More about Indra Nooyi in Fortune Magazine

I have been working in two new post (which are not ready yet), when I found an article from the fortune magazine about Indra Nooyi and Pepsi. I enjoy reading the fortune magazine, because I have the feeling that they always talk about the future with very good analysis of what we should expect. Finally I put here a CNN interview with Indra where she talks about the small slow down of the economy and what Pepsi Co. is doing for helping around the world.

Yahoo! has rejected Microsoft’s bid

Well, I’m just happy about Yahoo!, they know that their company is very valuable. I have read the news at bloomberg.com. I think this is one of the best things that could happen to the Internet, maybe Microsoft will try to update what they are offering, but Yahoo! wants more than $40 per share (the bid was for $31), so it won’t be easy for Microsoft.

About Yahoo!

This are just a few things that I think about what it is happening with Yahoo! and Microsoft.

The old Yahoo!

In the beginning of the World Wide Web, there was a company born just to organize and categorize other sites in the same World Wide Web. This company brought innovation, organization and made available information lost in the unknown dark places of the Web. We felt happy. We liked Yahoo! And Yahoo! felt the same way about us. They liked us. The company grow, and the problems also start growing. And there was the dot com crash, but not before Yahoo! were known as one of the most respectable an important companies in the Web.

Today’s Yahoo!

Yahoo! survived the crash, and they became a better company. They bring innovation again. They found innovation in other new companies. They got del.icio.us, flickr, Zimbra and many others. They also did a great job in their own, for example: new features for the famous Yahoo! Mail, a great portal design and an incredible news and financial sites. Yahoo! is now on the top of the Internet. But they also made some mistakes, they didn’t realize about all the potential of some new companies. It was impossible to know a few years ago that Google will become what it is today. But, if Yahoo! hadn’t let go Google maybe today we wouldn’t have AJAX maps, or android, or something like Gmail or Yahoo! Mail with chat. It has been competition what it is improving the new technologies around the Internet for last three or four years. And for that, maybe what Yahoo! did wasn’t a mistake (for the Internet), because they let Google, Facebook and others change the Internet in ways that just one company wouldn’t be able to imagine.

The new Yahoo!

I don’t now what will happen with Yahoo! and Microsoft. I wish Yahoo! could stay by itself for a long long time. I wish they could keep doing creative stuff for a long time. But, there is a lot of money on the table, and there are a lot of doubts inside Yahoo! Maybe the only way that they could survive the bid is if they had some killer Web Application or some new and creative business. However, if they don’t believe in their projects or just don’t have a really cool one, they will let all the “not so cool” new projects be part of Microsoft. Probably there is one or two great things that are cooking inside Yahoo! that may shake the Internet and probably we won’t see or hear anything about those projects before this thing with Microsoft it’s over. I would like to see Yahoo! helping start-up companies an becoming so much powerful in the next years. I would like to see a Yahoo! supporting more Open Source projects. I would like to see Yahoo! working with Google and Microsoft but being three different companies. I would like to see Yahoo! in the next Web generation. Yahoo! deserve it.

Indra Nooyi, the most powerful woman in business

This is my official first post, and it is dedicated to Karem, my dear girlfriend. Last January I got the Fortune magazine at the Frankfurt airport, because in Valencia it is hard to find it. Anyway, one of the most interesting articles is about the 25 most powerful business people, starring by Steve Jobs and many others famous people that we heard in the news every day. Well, in this list the number 23 is Indra Nooyi, the Chaiman and CEO at PepsiCo. I have heard about her, but I didn’t know how well she is doing at PepsiCo. According to the Fortune Magazine she is the most powerful women in business. In other important business magazines, Forbes, she is listed as the fifth most powerful women, and I have found there the reason for writing this post: “Being a woman, being a foreign-born, you’ve got to be smarter than anyone else”, she said. I really admire this woman. She is graduated from the Madras Christian College (where she studied Chemistry!), and later she got a Master Degree in Finance and Marketing from the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta. She has been doing a great job at PepsiCo since 2001 when she was named CFO, and she became CEO on August 14 from 2006. She is just a successful woman, with a great spirit.

The blue hole sun

I like the song. You know, the greatest SoundGarden hit: “Black Hole Sun”.

It is just, that the blue works better for me.