At first glance, this seems straight out of the Ripley’s Believe it or Not book. Today’s Wall Street Journal (subscription required) has a piece on Apple in which a Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster attributed the 4% drop in Apple stock price Tuesday in part to concerns that Mr.Jobs appeared thin. But if you think about […]
Two desis have made it to the shortlist for the Man Booker prize for fiction books. They are Chennai-born Aravind Adiga (The White Tiger) and Amitav Ghosh (Sea of Poppies). The other authors on this year’s Booker shortlist include Sebastian Barry (The Secret Scripture), Steve Toltz (A Fraction of the Whole), Linda Grant (The Clothes on their Backs) […]
Unless you are a complete idiot or a troglodyte, you know who Craig Newmark is. Assuming for a moment that you are one of those out to prove that the dodo is not extinct, let’s introduce Craig Newmark to you. Craig Newmark is the Craig of Craigslist and the man single-handedly responsible for destroying the […]
Nazia who, might well be the question posed by youngsters in India today. Pakistani Crooner Well, Nazia was a young London-based Pakistani pop singer who became an overnight sensation with Feroze Khan’s Qurbani (Zeenat Aman, Feroze Khan, Vinod Khanna) in 1980. Nazia followed up the Qurbani success with her first LP Disco Deewane (Nazia’s brother […]
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 […]
Struggling communications company Motorola has named Sanjay Jha its co-CEO and CEO of the Mobile Devices business. The Mobile Devices business has been a complete disaster for Motorola without any big hits after the Razr phone. Motorola’s Mobile Devices business reported an operating loss of $346 million on sales of $3.33 billion in Q2. Sales […]