Sameer Gandhi of Sequoia Capital has joined Accel Partners as partner in their Palo Alto office. At Accel, Sameer will help develop companies in the consumer Internet and software segments. At Sequoia Capital, Sameer had been a partner leading several investments including Barracuda Networks, eHarmony, Gracenote (acquired by Sony), Marketlive and Sourcefire (FIRE) among others […]
Yash Raj Films ugly disaster Tashan has collapsed at the U.S. box office in its second week (Please click here for Tashan opening weekend gross collection data.) For the May 2-4 weekend, gross collections for Tashan fell nearly 81% to $58,190. In the overall ranking at the U.S. box office, Tashan slipped to #40 for the […]
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Karunanidhi’s grandson Udhayanidhi Stalin has delivered a Sakkada Panni (dirty pig) of a movie in his maiden production Kuruvi. Vijay and bathroom video fame starlet Trisha assisted by Ashish Vidyarthi and Suman come together in this horrendous nightmare called Kuruvi to deliver nonstop nonsense from the first frame to the last. […]
The U.S. Justice Department has fined IT consulting services company iGate Mastech Inc $45,000 to settle charges that iGate discriminated against American citizens and Green Card holders in hiring employees. iGate is a Pittsburgh-based company originally founded by a bunch of Indians. This is what the U.S. Justice Department had to say about the fine
Among the many mismanaged IT companies in America, Sun Microsystems is perhaps the worst. Since the dot com bust, this clueless company (co-founded by Vinod Khosla in 1982) has been tottering its way to losses and more losses and significant erosion of shareholder value. Scott McNealy, he of the Microsoft-baiting fame, just couldn’t fix the […]
Tashan has fared badly at the U.S. box office with one of the poorest openings for a Bollywood movie in recent months. Starring Akshay Kumar, Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor, Tashan comes from Yash Raj Films. For the opening weekend (April 25-27, 2008), Tashan came in at No-24 with a gross of $301,226. Average […]