"A majority of the connected world has nothing but a basic handset and SMS, " says Sheth.
Darpana Sheth, an attorney with the Institute for Justice, a libertarian law firm in Arlington, Va.
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"This is the opportunity to reach many more people than the Web did or could, " says Sheth.
Sheth, an IIT grad, later did research at MIT's Media Lab but dropped out of the Ph.
That's a powerful comparison if you're in the business of social media, and Beerud Sheth got the message.
"The predominant form of text messaging is fairly primitive, as it's one to one, " says Sheth, baby-faced at age 40.
"The Mini has been a success beyond what we could have imagined, " said Rajen Sheth, product manager of Google's enterprise division.
In mid-2004 he, along with Page and Brin, met with Rajen Sheth, David Girouard and Matthew Glotzbach, who ran the enterprise group.
In May in Mumbai railway motormen went on strike to demand higher wages and the trade unions mobilized people using GupShup, says Sheth.
Sheth says the new Mini appliances--which can search either 200, 000 or 300, 000 documents, depending on purchase price--are targeted toward medium- to large-sized businesses.
"There was a notion that collaboration was broken, " because there was too much information in companies, and people were too spread out, says Sheth.
Sheth grew up in Mumbai but now sits in Silicon Valley, where in 2004 he cofounded Webaroo to be the company that jumps on this.
It's still losing about as much money as it brings in, but Sheth says he expects to break even in the first half of 2011.
"Food inflation hurts consumption, government finances, the balance of payments and monetary policy flexibility, " Atsi Sheth, a senior analyst at Moody's, wrote in a note.
The decision "will make it tougher for the government to initiate forfeiture proceedings or file complaints based on the actions of third parties, " Ms. Sheth said.
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For the past four years Sheth has been "commuting" by economy air to Mumbai from the Bay Area two weeks nearly every month to run the business.
Given its size and ambition, Sheth says, Google aims for products that can be used by a billion or more people, getting there via incremental software and features that it can improve as it watches and learns from how consumers take to new tools.
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