Market Capitalization and Share Price of the three major IT/Digital Media companies at 11:38AM Eastern Time today: * Google – $154.98 billion; $486.63 (Business: Search, Android software for phones) * Apple – $227.96 billion; $250.49 (Business: PCs i.e. Macs, digital media devices like iPod, iPhone, iPad et al) * Microsoft – $229.61 billion; $26.20 (Business: […]
IBM today announced six employees as IBM Fellows for their contributions to the company and the IT industry. And guess what? Two of the six are desis: Subramanian Iyer and Anant Jhingran. IBM Fellows is the IT giant’s highest technical award. Only 217 individuals have earned this honor in the company’s history. Including the newly named […]
Kites Box Office 2 – Hrithik Roshan Peotomized Bollywood star Hrithik Roshan may want to emulate his character J‘s action of jumping off the cliff at the end of Kites given the lackluster performance of his new movie at the box office. Folks, the Friday box office numbers (estimates) in the U.S. for Kites are […]
For the first time ever in the U.S., we witnessed and heard the audience loudly jeering a Bollywood film. This unprecedented incident happened on Thursday evening at the end of the 8PM show of Kites at Anil Ambani’s Big Cinemas theater in North Bergen, New Jersey (just outside Lincoln Tunnel) in Screen 2. To the […]
Hey, whoever complained that Americans don’t work hard. They do. By God, they do. But just not the way you imagine. The Wall Street Journal has an interesting piece in today’s edition on how small businesses are struggling with cyberslacking employees: * In April, 57 million Americans visited a social networking web site from an […]
The man who said “I’d rather be lucky than good” saw deeply into life. People are afraid to face how great a part of life is dependent on luck. It’s scary to think so much is out of one’s control. There are moments in a match when the ball hits the top of the net, […]