After the great New Jersey Samosa lawsuit, the stage is now set for the Mother of All Biryani Battles. Big Indian legal fights in the U.S. are all about life-changing things like Samosas, Biryanis and, who knows, maybe in the future, even Gulab Jamuns and Jalebis. 😉 No kidding, guys. And the venue for the […]
Sri Lankan Tamil hedge fund billionaire will be a guest of the American prison system for the next 11 years for insider trading. The sentence is the longest ever for insider trading. Judge Richard J.Holwell, who sentenced Rajaratnam today, also fined him $10 million and ordered the forfeiture of $53.8 million. Judge Holwell said: Insider […]
‘Tis true we’re sloshed every night. But the truth is tonight we’re sloshed more than usual. Can barely get fingers to move across keyboard. Yet, we feel like we ought to, at least briefly, touch upon two fairly recent movies that we lately watched and enjoyed. The first is the 2010 British movie Cemetery Junction […]
U.S. coupons major Groupon has rebranded its Indian deal site SoSasta into the weird sounding Crazeal. Apparently, the name SoSasta is not resonating well in South India and also supposedly not hip enough to entice the highfalutin upmarket sellers into clambering up on the discounts train. What cockamamie crock! When you’re basically peddling discounts, SoSasta […]
In hopes of riding the current tablet wave sweeping consumers, E-commerce behemoth Amazon.com today launched a $199 tablet it’s calling the Kindle Fire. As expected, it’s a 7-inch touchscreen device running a custom version of Google’s Android software. Can Kindle Fire Catch Fire with Consumers? Key Features * The dual-processor tablet weighs 14.6-oz, is WiFi […]
For all those schmucks who think that corporate boards are stuffed with wise old men who do nothing but bring their decades of ‘wisdom’ to guide businesses and pass the torch to a new generation, we say ’tis time to stop taking those deep drags from the fine California weed you got betwixt your lips. […]