Stormannsgalskap is a Norwegian word which means great men’s madness. Our only encounter with the word so far has been in Adam Lashinsky’s recent book Inside Apple. Lashinsky borrows the term’s extension to the business world from former Harvard professor Richard Tedlow who used it to refer to extraordinary leaders who create great enterprises. In […]
Consumer electronics darling Apple is dipping into its $97.6 billion cash hoard to handsomely reward shareholders. The company today said it plans to spend $45 billion on dividends and share buyback over the next three years. Apple intends to initiate a quarterly dividend of $2.65 per share in its fiscal fourth quarter, which begins on […]
New York City is catholic (in the non-religious sense) in its embrace of different cultures, food and people. And sure enough of Halal too. These days it seems as if every direction we turn in New York City there’s a food establishment proclaiming its food to be Halal. The other day as we were walking […]
We bet you haven’t seen anything like this, not even in Incredible India. Bizarre, indeed. Curry Holes on Oak Tree Road On a short, four-mile stretch of Oak Tree Road that runs through the New Jersey towns of Iselin and Edison in Middlesex County, there are now 56 Indian restaurants. Yes, schmucks. We said 56. […]
Even the most successful of businesses sometimes make asses of themselves with incomprehensibly stupid decisions. Yesterday, it was the turn of India’s top newspaper group Times of India to display its jackass colors. Not content with putting out iPad apps for its two flagship newspapers, Times of India and Economic Times, Times Internet Limited, the […]
By Tiramisu Located in the Curry Hill restaurant district (Lexington Ave and 28th St) of Manhattan, Anjappar Chettinad opened its doors to diners in the Big Apple less than a week ago. Anjappar’s NYC outpost comes four years after the South Indian restaurant chain dropped anchor on the East Coast in North Brunswick, New Jersey. We […]