Remote technical support services provider for consumers and small businesses iYogi has raised $9.5 million in a Series B round led by SAP Ventures. Canaan Partners and SVB India Capital Partners also participated in the latest round. For an annual subscription fee of $199.99 per desktop, iYogi provides support for different technologies including PC hardware, […]
Kismat Konnection – Dud at Box Office Making crappy movies like Kismat Konnection is a sin. Reviewing such crappy movies – and giving them undeserved publicity – is a greater sin. Watching Kismat Konnection less than 24 hours after watching The Dark Knight featuring the peerless Heath Ledger as the Joker is nothing but Karmic […]
If a $2.5 billion loss is progress (even if it’s half the $5.1b loss of Q1), then our greedy desi butcher and Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit uses a different dictionary from the rest of us. This morning struggling financial services giant Citigroup announced a loss of $2.5 billion for its second quarter ended June 30, […]
Today’s New York Times has an interesting piece on Amma a.k.a. MÄtÄ AmritanandamayÄ« Devi and originally as Sudhamani. Amma, who hails from the South Indian state of Kerala, is also known as the Hugging Saint, a reference to this oddball’s penchant for hugging people. According to the NYT story, the 54-year-old Amma hugged over 8,000 people […]
What an ugly trifecta – the most incompetent actress (Priyanka Chopra) in Bollywood meets the new dumbest actor (Harman Baweja) meets Mumbai’s biggest jackass writer-director (Harry Baweja) in Love Story 2050. Love Story 2050 is an unforgivable, unwatchable, unendurable, unfathomable piece of shit. There’s simply no better way to describe this dung heap of a movie. […]
You take all our Bollywood stars (the Amitabhs, the Shahrukhs, the Hrithiks and even the Kamal Haasans) and all our starlets (the Aishwaryas, the Priyankas and the Kareenas) – Tis’ sad but true that the combined skills of all these Bollywood pygmies wouldn’t match the extraordinary talent Will Smith and Charlize Theron bring to Hancock. […]