They say that even the rats desert a sinking ship. While Padmasree Warrior is certainly no rat, this shrewd corporate warrior has abandoned the sinking Motorola and sought refuge in the safe harbor of networking leader Cisco. Padmasree is joining Cisco as CTO, the same position she held at struggling Motorola where she was responsible for […]
Your free lunch days are over, Microsoft is telling software pirates and their cheapo customers. Make no mistake, Microsoft is aggressively going after pirates of its software these days. And to prove that it means business now where piracy of its software is concerned, the software company’s been throwing around some impressive numbers. Just the other day, […]
Over its 25-year history, Sun Microsystems has seen many talented executives come and go. Among them founder Vinod Khosla and long time CEO Scott McNealy (now Chairman). But one executive seems to have been at Sun forever even as the company’s prospects soared during the dot com days, faded subsequently and then painfully stabilized. And […]
If you love movies as much as we do, you’ll love the book Eyewitness Companions – Film. For movie buffs, the 501-page book provides a nice introduction to the films business and whets the appetite for more indepth reading. Besides giving us an overview of the Story of Cinema from 1895 to the present, this book also […]
Madhuri Dixit’s comeback vehicle Aaja Nachle turned out to be quite a bit of disappointment. A lightweight film with few rewarding surprises, there’s not much going for Aaja Nachle besides fine performances by Konkona Sen and Kunal Kapoor and an average performance by yesteryear Bollywood queen Madhuri Dixit (now living in the U.S.) Most of all, […]
Reeling from massive losses due to its disastrous missteps in the subprime mortgage segment, embattled financial services giant Citigroup is getting a $7.5 billion cash infusion from Gulf nation Abu Dhabi through a sale of Equity Units convertible into shares. The Abu Dhabi investment is expected to close within the next several days. The badly-needed cash […]