Bollywood Goes to Wal-Mart in Canada

No kidding.  Bollywood DVDs from Eros Entertainment will soon be available at Wal-Mart stores in Canada. Bollywood movie distributor and producer Eros Entertainment has entered into a tie up with Wal-Mart Canada to peddle its collection of Indian movies. Initially, Eros’ Bollywood DVDs will be available in 27 Wal-Mart stores and subsequently the entire Canadian […]

Race Has So-So Box Office Debut in USA

Compared to Jodhaa Akbar (Hrithik Roshan-Aishwarya Rai) and Om Shanti Om (Shahrukh Khan-Deepika Padukone), Race has not done that well in the opening March 21-23, 2008 weekend at the U.S. box office. According to the March 21-23 weekend box office numbers, Race grossed $802,254 and came in at No-18 at the U.S. box office. In […]

VMware Screws USA, to Invest $100m in India

What an irony! When Indian IT companies like Tata Consultancy Services and Wipro are stepping up their investments in the U.S., VMware is going the other way. Virtualization software house VMware joined the hordes of U.S. corporations that are screwing American workers with its just-announced plans to boost research and development operations in India through […]

Hollywood on a High

Hollywood is going great guns at both the U.S. domestic and worldwide box office. According to the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) 2007 report, eleven movies grossed $200 million or more in the U.S.  The eleven movies are Spider Man 3, Shrek The Third, Transformers, Pirates of the Carribean At World’s End, Harry Potter […]

Desi Butcher Vikram Pandit May Hack More Citi Jobs

Greedy desi butcher and Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit may fire more employees than previously reported. Soon after taking over as CEO of struggling Citigroup, Vikram Pandit started sacrificing Citi jobs even as he grabbed 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. New […]

Intel Science Talent Awards on March 11, 2008

(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 […]

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