Sun Microsystems, one of the worst IT companies in Silicon Valley, has turned in a lousy performance in its fiscal fourth quarter ended June 30, 2008. Ugly Summary of Sun’s Q4 Disaster: * Revenues were down * Profits were down 73% * Gross Margin was down * Product Revenues were down * Only service revenues […]
Judas Rajini, What About Us? For the sake of a few silver coins, our modern-day avatar of Judas – Rajinikanth – having decided to sell his soul, gathered up all his spittle and in one swift motion spat on the faces of millions of his Tamil fans worldwide. For a highly-paid star like Rajinikanth to […]
Infosys Technologies has rolled out a new managed information service called ShoppingTrip360 to let retailers and consumer packaged goods companies gain greater visibility into in-store activity through the use of wireless sensor-based applications. Infosys described ShoppingTrip360 as a platform that enables a suite of managed-information services to create a 360-degree view of real-time in-store shopper […]
Manu Thapar has joined social networking web site MySpace as Senior VP of Engineering. At MySpace, Manu is responsible for overseeing the company’s infrastructure, security and high priority projects, as well as creating an offshore development team for MySpace. Before joining MySpace, Manu served as VP of Engineering for Yahoo, where he was responsible for software infrastructure […]
Philadelphia-based life science venture capital firm Quaker BioVentures has promoted Geeta Vemuri to Partner. Vemuri was earlier a Principal at the firm. Geeta Vemuri Before joining Quaker in 2003, Vemuri was an associate at Toucan Capital, responsible for investments in seed and start-up biotech companies. She’s also worked as an associate analyst at Salomon Smith […]
Like most Indians, there are two things we’re passionate about – Bollywood and food (no, cricket is not that hot on our list). In a long life, we’ve watched several hundred Bollywood movies (Hindi and Tamil) and dined at scores of Indian restaurants in Asia, Europe and North America. North Indian or South Indian, Gujarati or […]