Tamil Nadu has a burning problem. This is a disturbing trend that no other Indian state has shown over 40 years. Take a look: * When Tamil movie superstar Rajinikanth’s marriage was on the rocks in the 1980s, an anguished fan doused himself with kerosene outside the star’s house in Chennai and burnt himself to death […]
As the Ambani bozo builds a $2 billion dollar mansion amidst the Mumbai hovels, as glitzy malls replace neighborhood kaka shops, as wealthy kids snap up Rs 36,000 cell phones, as latte replaces chai and kapi for the nouveau riche and as watching ugly reality shows become de rigeur, the number of poor people in India […]
Indian software powerhouse Infosys is acquiring UK SAP consulting firm Axon Group for $753.1 million. The deal is expected to close by November this year. The 2,000-man Axon Group, which provides SAP consultancy services to MNCs, has offices in the UK, North America, Malaysia and Australia. In 2007, Axon Group reported a net income of $37.4 million […]
comScore confirms what we suspected all along – Microsoft search sites are a complete disaster in India. In comScore’s June 2008 study of the online search market in India, Microsoft sites accounted for a tiny and irrelevant 1.7% share of searches in June 2008. Microsoft had to suffer the ignominy of coming in No-4, behind even […]
Software developer Cascade Mobile has launched an online portal called Breeze Apps that lets users get free applications for their mobile phones. The free apps are subsidized by ads. Apple’s popular iPhone is not supported by Breeze Apps. Toronto-based Cascade Mobile provides a software platform for creating and distributing mobile applications.
We’ve never been great fans of Fox, America’s fair and balanced network. But the video of Fox 5’s recent sting operation at the Hindu Temple of Georgia in Atlanta makes for interesting watching. You see, it’s all about money. And the commercialization of Hindu temples in America. Here’s the brief story of the Hindu Temple […]