Bhoothnath is a disaster at the U.S. box office. This crap of a movie grossed a pitiful $330,246 in its opening weekend (May 9-11, 2008) in the U.S. Eros Entertainment was the distributor for Bhoothnath in the U.S. It’s no surprise that Bhoothnath was a damp squib at the box office here. As SearchIndia.com wrote […]
New Developments on Satyam Fraud *Indian IT Crook Satyam Names Insider A.S.Murty CEO *Indian Outsourcing Crook Ramalinga Raju Arrested *Satyam Board Kicked Out, Hooray * Ram Mynampati Vows to Stay at Satyam; Kick Him Out * Trading in Satyam Still Halted on NYSE * We are Big Time Crooks, Confesses Satyam * 53,000 Satyam Coolies […]
Supply chain software house i2 Technologies has named Pallab Chatterjee CEO. Chatterjee has been interim CEO of i2 Technologies since July 31, 2007. Chatterjee joined i2 Technologies in January 2000 as Chief Operating Officer. From 1976 until joining i2 Technologies, Chatterjee held key positions with TI, including president of the company’s $1 billion Personal Productivity […]
Multiple bomb blasts rocked the Indian city of Jaipur today. Early reports suggest that several dozen people have been killed. One news report said over 60 people were killed in six blasts. Dozens of other people have been injured. Capital of the Western Indian state of Rajasthan, Jaipur is known as the Pink City for its pink […]
Some Bollywood movies hit the big screen more dead than alive. Like the scarily mediocre Bhoothnath, for instance. There were all of 11 people for the 6:30PM show on Friday at the Regal Cinemas in New Jersey. Yes, less than a dozen people for the 6:30PM show on opening night. And you know what? In retrospect, […]
Every age, it seems, must have its Nero. The indifferent figure callously fiddling while Rome is burning all around him. We see one such Nero-esque figure in the ponytailed Jonathan Schwartz, CEO of the struggling IT company Sun Microsystems. Sun’s fortunes have taken a massive beating after the dot com bust. Wave after wave of layoffs […]