Our favorite set-top box Roku got better today. Amazon Video on Demand has come to Roku, which means we can rent or buy 40,000 movies/TV programs online from Amazon.com and watch it on our television set via streaming through a high-speed Internet connection. We just checked our $99 Roku box but didn’t find the box updated […]
We live in unusual times. America is struggling while China and India are thriving. But in the movie business, it’s the other way around. Lately, Hollywood is thriving while Bollywood is gasping for breath. Hard Times for Bollywood Bollywood is struggling with movie (Yuvraaj) after movie (Chandni Chowk to China) after movie (Billu Barber) after […]
Well, what do you expect from a crappy movie industry. Come on guys, are you really surprised that some of the crappiest Bollywood movies ever made or a bunch of zeros walked away with the top honors at the Filmfare awards ceremony. At the latest Crapfare oops Filmfare Awards ceremony, the top winners – it should actually […]
In the third bailout of Shitty Bank oops Citibank, the U.S. Treasury Department plans to convert $25 billion of its preferred securities into common stock provided other private holders agree to the same terms. If the latest round of bailout goes through, the U.S. government’s stake in Shitty Bank will rise to 36% from 8% […]
Folks, this edition of Incredible India focuses on the hundreds of millions in India who go to bed hungry every night in India’s countless villages. We present below an excerpt from the recent Report on the State of Food Insecurity in Rural India jointly prepared by the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and MS […]
Folks, time to celebrate. Maneesh Dhir, the head of AOL International and the bloke responsible for aggressively pushing AOL’s expansion into India, has quit. We say Good Riddance to Bad Rubbish. God knows, how many jobs Maneesh killed in the U.S. in his missionary zeal to outsource AOL operations to India. A recent memo from AOL […]