(Update – Shivani Sud wins Intel Science Talent Search Competition.) The fate of the Eight Desi geniuses who made it to the finals of the Intel Science Talent Contest will be decided on March 11, 2008. The eight desis are competing with 32 others for honor and $500,000 in prize money. The grand prize is […]
(Update – Shivani Sud wins Intel Science Talent Search Competition.) Eight Desi students have made it to the finals of the Intel Science Talent contest. Of the eight students, five are girls and they submitted projects in diverse areas including Bioinformatics, Biochemistry, Mathematics, Medicine, Physics, Zoology, Earth and Planetary Science and Chemistry. The students are […]
Update: Amit Kapur Leaving MySpace Rupert Murdoch’s social networking site MySpace has named Amit Kapur Chief Operating Officer. Kapur will be responsible for leading development and implementation of all global business operations. Amit Kapur MySpace is said to have 110 million users worldwide. Kapur will also oversee growth and expansion of MySpace partnerships across the upcoming […]
Sanjay Mehrotra is a co-founder of Silicon Valley-based SanDisk, manufacturer of removable storage cards, flash drives and MP3 players. SanDisk’s products are used in digital cameras, multi-function mobile phones, USB flash drives, digital audio/video players and other digital consumer devices Before becoming President and COO of SanDisk in April 2006, Sanjay worked as Director of memory […]
Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit, who just butchered 4,200 jobs the other day for so-called expense management reasons, got about $26.7 million in stock (1.094 million shares) on January 22, 2008, according to the bank’s regulatory filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Vikram Pandit also received options on three million Citigroup shares, with strike prices ranging from […]
Frankly, we think Bobby Jindal stinks. At least, Jindal’s views on abortion do. We also think Jindal is a phony, a Christian fanatic (or at least pretends to be in a state where religion is very important to its citizens) and lacks the experience to handle a complex task like governing a backward and corrupt […]