Transcendental Meditation guru Mahesh Yogi has died. The 91-year-old Indian died at his home in Netherlands, a month after he stepped down as head of his vast organization and retired into silence. Mahesh Yogi’s followers included the Beatles, Mia Farrow, Beach Boy, Mike Love and British singer Donovan. Many summers ago, we attended a short […]
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 […]
U.S. Presidential candidate Barack Obama trounced rivals Hillary Clinton and John Edwards in the Democratic primaries in South Carolina. Obama got 55% of the votes while Hillary secured 27% and Edwards 18%. Following his decisive victory in South Carolina, Obama said: Tonight, the cynics that said what began in the snows of Iowa was just an […]
Microsoft chairman Bill Gates and his wife Melinda Gates are giving $27 million through their charitable foundation to assist Indian farmers in developing micro-irrigation techniques. The grant is being routed through International Development Enterprises. The goal of the project is to assist up to 250,000 smallholder farm families—1.75 million people—in 14 states of India and boost […]