Madness. Sheer Madness! As we’ve said often, this daily deal/coupon madness has reached epic heights in the U.S. Perhaps, it’s because of the recession with fewer dollar bills in consumers’ wallets. Perhaps it’s a greedy frenzy that’s consumed the people here into an orgy of consumption. Or perhaps it’s clueless businesses desperately trying to get […]
We know, we know. All ye 64-letter, Twitter-constrained schmucks consider reading to be a cardinal sin. For desis, books are the new pariahs to stay away from. Let not even the shadow of the printed word fall on your Fair-and-Lovelied, Hennaed, Attared body. Who knows what dangers might lurk in the pages of books. God […]
Any one who’s ever used a netbook knows what a pain it is to type on the small cramped keyboard. So when we espied an ad in the Staples flyer this week peddling a Logitech Wireless Keyboard K360 for $15 (50% off) we didn’ t think twice. Hey, the same keyboard is $30 at BestBuy […]
Now is the time for all desi cheapskates that scoffed at the iPad (because you didn’t want to fork out $499 for a fine device) to pick up the good-for-nothing HP TouchPad for $99. Here’s the list of U.S. stores peddling the TouchPad for $99. You can’t do much with the TouchPad but, hey, it’s […]
There are the daily chutiya deals that land in your mail-box and then there are the real deals. Guys, Qatar Airways’ 2-1 appears to be one of those rare real deals. To celebrate its 100th destination milestone, Qatar Airways has rolled out a limited-time promotion that offers you 2 tickets for the price of 1. […]
Daily deals web site and Groupon rival LivingSocial has raised a mind-boggling $400 million in a new round to take its total funding to over half-a-billion dollars. Well, $600 million is LivingSocial’s total funding if you schmucks must know the exact number. Existing investors Amazon and Lightspeed Venture Partners and newbies T. Rowe Price and […]