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 […]
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 […]