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  Engology.com, Engineer Sabeer Bhatia, Billionaire, High Profile Engineer, Co-founder and CEO of Hotmail, Founder and ...
Sabeer is the founder, president and CEO of Arzoo.com, which is the Web’s first talent pool of engineers and developers from around the world.
Sabeer Bhatia: Hello and it is a pleasure to be in the chat room with so many people logging on from all over the world.
Sabeer Bhatia: Arzoo is a "real-time" marketplace for intellectual capitol and for brokering valuable information between the suppliers and the buyers around the globe.
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 rediff.com: Sabeer Bhatia launches Voicexpress
Sabeer Bhatia, co-founder of Hotmail.com, on Tuesday announced the launch of VoiceXpress - a cellular voice messaging service - at a function held in Ahmedabad.
Bhatia also said the telecom industry in India is ready for a 'big explosion', and there is the possibility of tremendous growth for Internet and cellular services.
Bhatia, the co-chairman of NavinMail Services (India) Pvt Ltd and its subsidiary TeliVoice, is hopeful about the future of his new companies.
www.rediff.com /money/2002/apr/23sabeer.htm   (366 words)

  
 Sabeer Bhatia
Bhatia was born and raised in the southern Indian city of Bangalore.
Bhatia went back and told Microsoft: "If that is the brand we have built in one and a half years, imagine what it will be in 20 years.
Bhatia returned to the table, alone, and once more said: "No." The contract was inked on Dec. 30, 1997, Bhatia's 29th birthday.
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 INDOlink NRI News - Sabeer Bhatia of HotMail strikes Gold   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Sabeer Bhatia, the President and CEO of Hotmail is coy about the specifics of the deal.
Sabeer Bhatia is perhaps one of the youngest entreprenuers to strike it rich and strike it big.
Bhatia and his partner, Jack Smith, toyed with the idea of a web-based database server and tried to interest venture capitalists in their first venture, JavaSoft.
www.indolink.com /NRINews/sabeer.html   (804 words)

  
 Sabeer Bhatia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sabeer was born in Chandigarh, India, and did his early schooling at the Jesuit school of St.
A year later it was sold to Microsoft for $400 million.
After the Hotmail acquisition, Bhatia worked at Microsoft for about a year and in April 1999, he left to start another venture, Arzoo Inc, which was shut down when the Dot-com bubble burst.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sabeer_Bhatia   (254 words)

  
 Sabeer Bhatia - Computer Wizard Sabeer Bhatia - Sabeer Bhatia Hotmail - Sabeer Bhatia Arzoo - India Sabeer Bhatia
After selling the hotmail to the Microsoft, Sabeer Bhatia worked with the Microsoft for about a year and then left it to start another venture- Arzoo Inc. It is an e-commerce firm with a revolutionary new way to shop on line.
With the hotmail deal, Sabeer Bhatia became the Silicon Valley hero and is still basking in glory.
Sabeer Bhatia, an icon for the young and aspiring software professionals, was born in Chandigarh in 1969 and grew up in Bangalore.
www.indobase.com /indians-abroad/sabeer-bhatia.html   (389 words)

  
 webindia123-Indian personalities famous abroad-Sabeer Bhatia
Sabeer Bhatia, the pioneer in the field of first web based e-mail - The Hotmail, was born in Chandigarh in the year 1969.
After graduation, Sabeer briefly worked for Apple Computers as a hardware engineer and Firepower Systems Inc. While working there he was amazed at the fact that he could access any software on the internet via a web browser.
Bhatia worked at Microsoft for a little over a year after the Hotmail acquisition and in April 1999, he left Microsoft to start another venture, Arzoo Inc. It's an e-commerce firm with a revolutionary new way to shop on line and may just turn out to be Bhatia's next multi-million dollar winner.
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 FT.com / Companies / Media & internet - Inventor of Hotmail turns his attention to weblogs
Sabeer Bhatia, the Bangalore student who with a colleague invented the iconic Hotmail e-mail service and went on to make a fortune by selling it to Microsoft, is returning to fix what he describes as a “neglected stepchild”.
Mr Bhatia’s new venture is his first since investing $8m of his own money – along with $7m raised from financial backers – in Arzoo, a virtual classroom of free-lance academics and computer specialists who answer questions on IT problems encountered at home, or in a large workplace.
Mr Bhatia is not alone among US-based IT entrepreneurs and venture capitalists in turning his attention to India and bringing funds to develop ideas in a country seen as one of the largest potential online markets after the US and China.
news.ft.com /cms/s/5fca3902-ac76-11da-8226-0000779e2340.html   (529 words)

  
 rediff.com: Sabeer Bhatia's Arzoo.com goes bust
Bhatia, through the note, assures professionals on the Arzoo network that the company has mailed the cheques to them and will settle all the dues it owes to those on its rolls.
The biggest challenge for Bhatia would be now to prove that his success is not a flash in the pan.
During the tech boom Bhatia felt that IT organisations were insatiable in their appetite for skilled engineering professionals in exceedingly tight job markets and outsourcing human resources would be greatly preferred.
www.rediff.com /money/2001/jun/20arzoo.htm   (588 words)

  
 Could Anyone Have Thought Up Hotmail?
It was so powerful that when Jack did call Sabeer back, their minds melded as they talked, leaping from one ramification to the next simultaneously.
Sabeer is just twenty-nine years old, and has a very regal air; he is a deep listener, a gentle giant.
Sabeer intended to get his degrees and then to go home to work, probably as an engineer for some very large Indian company.
www.businessweek.com /smallbiz/news/coladvice/book/bk990903.htm   (1182 words)

  
 cooltech.iafrica.com | features Sabeer Bhatia: One-hit wonder?
Sabeer Bhatia made a fortune selling Hotmail to Microsoft almost 10 years ago.
Bhatia (37) became an overnight celebrity with the sale the free web-based email service in 1997 for $400-million, making it big before his 30th birthday.
Bhatia says it is also an effort to shed his image as a one-hit wonder and take advantage of his connections to India.
cooltech.iafrica.com /features/433932.htm   (638 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | UK | Sabeer Bhatia: Things go cold for Mr Hotmail
It was while he was there that Sabeer Bhatia made the phone call that would transform his life and revolutionise the internet.
It was so powerful that sleep that night was impossible for Sabeer Bhatia, with the idea now in his head, exploding, autocatalytic, a bonfire of the mind.
Besides this, Sabeer Bhatia found himself at the very pinnacle of India's new entrepreneurial elite: a young, highly-motivated jet-setting crowd which has blazed a trail from Bombay to Bel Air bringing with it new products, new management attitudes and, above all, an unshakeable belief in the transforming power of technology.
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 Desicritics.org: Sabeer Bhatia, The Hot Male, Launches BlogEverywhere   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Sabeer Bhatia sold Hotmail.com to Microsoft for a whopping $400 million in 1998.
Meanwhile, it might not be fair to say that Sabeer Bhatia was doing nothing in the intervening time.
Hotmail is to Sabeer Bhatia as Sholay was to Ramesh Sippy.
desicritics.org /2006/03/06/154014.php   (1035 words)

  
 CXOtoday.com > News > Software > Sabeer Bhatia's VoIP Initiative
Explaining why the locally developed software was also launched in India, Sabeer Bhatia, Co-founder and CEO, VoiFi Technology Corporation said, "India has the potential to be the world's largest market after China, due to increasing broadband penetration, market size and the motivation of cost savings.
Sabeer was successful because he invented a core technology which was viable for common man. He, with the kind of resources or back up what he can enjoy should have come out with some serious projects.
Sabeer is a smart man but is getting the bacics wrong.
www.cxotoday.com /cxo/jsp/article.jsp?article_id=71720&cat_id=911   (1235 words)

  
 Profile- IT Plus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Sabeer bhatia's favourite story concerns his initial approach to venture capitalists it pay dirt when he sold out to Microsoft, he stayed on in his tiny, rented Bayside Village apartment, telling friends that the real estate market was overheated and he would wait for prices to come down before he bought a new place.
Sabeer and his co-worker Jack Smith, then working for Apple Computers, were keen to start their own company and had been bouncing possible ideas off each other.
Sabeer and his partner were both 27, which, even by Silicon Valley standards, was rather young to grab the attention of venture capitalists.
www.india-today.com /iplus/2000_1/profile.html   (3494 words)

  
 CIOL : News : Sabeer Bhatia's next 'hot' product   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Bhatia said that the product was completely made in India and is the only peer-to-peer collaborative tool in the market.
Bhatia informed that he had made significant investment into the Bangalore based start-up but declined to reveal the value of investment.
Bhatia said that he would shortly become the board member and chairman of the company.
www.ciol.com /content/news/2005/105041402.asp   (401 words)

  
 Sabeer Bhatia lifts veil off Arzoo.com
Later, Bhatia and his team, sensing the voracious appetite for skilled computer professionals, redirected their live chat technology to create a global network for real-time technology solutions and support, connecting the best engineering professionals worldwide with organisations in need of problem-solving assistance at a flat monthly retainership ranging from USD 5,000 to 100,000.
Asked about the investment and revenue projections, Bhatia said once the Arzoo network is established worldwide, it would reach the break even level even with less than 100 corporate clients in the next couple of years.
Explaining the working of the portal, he said experts with appropriate skills and experience were invited to respond and the answers were delivered by it or sometimes by way of a live chat with the selected expert.
www.expressindia.com /ie/daily/20000908/ibu08055.html   (644 words)

  
 It's wedding bells for Sabeer Bhatia!- The Times of India   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
And indeed, how Geeta, an NRI of Punjabi descent, became the arzoo of Sabeer’s heart is the stuff of which fairy-tales are made.
“Geeta was engaged when she first met 34-year-old Sabeer at a party,” discloses a close friend of the Bhatia family, “And the next thing we knew, Geeta had broken her engagement and was seeing Sabeer.” Sabeer, in turn, has gifted his lady love a beautiful ring.
The Bhatia family has planned a big party in December, when a formal announcement will be made.
timesofindia.indiatimes.com /cms.dll/articleshow?artid=269365   (367 words)

  
 Sabeer Bhatia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Sabeer Bhatia, grew up in Bangalore, India as the son of an Indian ministry of defense official and came to the U.S. in 1988 with only a couple of hundreds in his pocket to attend Caltech.
I think the best and the brightest are allowed to use their intellect and their mind, there is no dearth of capital, you don't have to have connections, you don't have to have super-influence in the government or banking system.
In the Wired magazine article titled; HotMale, Bhatia states, “In India, just to open a little restaurant, you have to get 18 permits, but you don't have to get a permit to start a business on the Internet.” (7) He also realizes that Indians are beginning to be known worldwide for their software skills.
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 Radio Australia - News In Depth - Watch & Listen - Sabeer Bhatia on innovation
Indian entrepreneur and Hotmail founder, Sabeer Bhatia, talks about technological innovation and its place in Asia.
Sabeer Bhatia, the founder of Hotmail, tells Robyn Ball why Asia will be the hotspot for future innovation and growth in the technology industries.
[Sabeer Bhatia was in Melbourne for an Asialink/TiE event on August 29, 2005]
www.radioaustralia.net.au /news/watchlisten/s1448573.htm   (83 words)

  
 IBNLive Videos : Sabeer Bhatia wants you to blog
New Delhi: Sabeer Bhatia made email the killer application that it is today with Hotmail - the world's first web based email system that allowed people to access their email anywhere.
Now Sabeer is planning to ride the newest application on the web -- blogging.
He made Hotmail 10 years ago and now he is making Hotmail a whole lot quicker and easier to use with a new...
www.ibnlive.com /videopopup.php?id=6394   (101 words)

  
 CareerIndia: Profiles - Sabeer Bhatia
The world scoffed when Sabeer Bhatia pitched his idea for free Web-based email in 1995.
Now the 29-year-old upstart has the last laugh: after signing up 11 million Hotmail accounts and selling the company to Microsoft for an estimated US$400 million earlier this year, people actually listen when he declares, "My goal is to go after AOL on the Web."
Though selling out to Bill often amounts to the ultimate exit strategy, Bhatia claims, "I'll be reporting to Redmond for a while.
www.careerindia.com /careerhub/strighttalk/profiles/sabeer.html   (311 words)

  
 Sabeer Bhatia launches instacoll - Sify.com
Company Chief Executive Officer Sumanth Raghavendra and Bhatia told newsmen here that the beta launch of the application product on Microsoft office suite were already on with a number of Indian companies and from today it was available freely for any users to test it out before the commercial launch next month.
Bhatia said Instacoll seamlessly converts mainstream productivity application such as Microsoft word, Excel and Power Point into real time, interactive collaborative platforms that allowed teams of people to work on a shared document over the internet as if they were in the same physical location and looking at the same data.
Admitting that he had made a major investment in the company, Bhatia declined to come out with the quantum of investment and said that the second round of investment would take place soon.
sify.com /finance/equity/fullstory.php?id=13717148   (416 words)

  
 MSN India Feature - Sabeer Bhatia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Yes, we are indeed referring to none other than the hot male Sabeer Bhatia, co-founder and CEO of Hotmail, the path breaking e-mail providing system that once and for all revolutionized the web as a personal communications tool.
The story of how a young Bhatia and his partner sold Hotmail to Microsoft at a whopping $400 million is a legend of the Internet era.
As of now, Sabeer Bhatia who is perched in a luxurious apartment in Broadway in San Francisco is also re-building his alma mater St. Joseph’s in Bangalore.
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 Sabeer Bhatia launches Blogeverywhere.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Hotmail founder Sabeer Bhatia has launched an Internet-based toolbar, Blogeverywhere.com that enhances the speed and functionality of e-mail browsing and allows users to post their comments on any website in the world.
He said revenues for the venture would come from advertisements but before that, their goal is to make sure that millions of Internet users start using the toolbar.
I dont know what made him to develop this toolbar I guess it is useless untill and unless it is for yahoo or gmail.
ia.rediff.com /money/2006/mar/06sab.htm?q=bp&file=.htm   (439 words)

  
 What do HotMail, Exodus, and Junglee Have In Common?
That's where Sabeer Bhatia, the founder of HotMail, met his mentor, Farouk Arjani, who introduced him to his first venture-capital contacts.
Meeting them in person reminded me that at the end of the day, they were human," Bhatia recalls.
Bhatia, like other TiE beneficiaries, has now advised and invested in eight other Indian-led companies.
www.businessweek.com /smallbiz/news/coladvice/trends/tr990927.htm   (1099 words)

  
 Sabeer Bhatia releases new VoIP software - Sify.com
Mumbai: Sabeer Bhatia, best known as the founder of Hotmail, is in the country again, this time to announce the world release of a Voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP) software from VoiFi Technologies Corp, one of the five new companies that he has founded.
Bhatia plans to expand his companies' presence in Bangalore, Mumbai and Pune.
"What are the gaps in the Internet space and how can I plug these gaps," is what Bhatia says he asks himself.
sify.com /finance/fullstory.php?id=14154986   (262 words)

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