The Wall Street Journal is tooting its horn that it’s hit the one million paid subscriber mark for its online edition WSJ.com. WSJ.com subscribers stood at 989,000 at the end of the third quarter, up 25.5% year over year. WSJ.com is that rare success in a sea of failures of newspapers that have struggled to get […]
Disgusting; U.S. Pisses Away $306b on Citigroup Update: Vikram Pandit named CEO of Citigroup on December 11. Click here for details. Vikram Pandit is that rare Indian who has made it big within the stratospheric heights of the financial sector in New York. A Mumbai native, Vikram Pandit is CEO of Citigroup’s Institutional Clients Group comprising of Citi […]
Citigroup CEO Charles Prince is toast and is expected to quit at an emergency board meeting scheduled for Sunday, according to the Wall Street Journal (subscription required). And the word on the street is that Citi will report another big write-off and more losses. In more bad news for Citi, the Securities and Exchange Commission, which […]
Penthouse Pet of the Year (2003) and desi sex bomb Sunny Leone is set to wed her boyfriend Matt Erickson in March next year. Sunny’s Mr.Right is said be an executive with the adult movie business. Born in Sarnia, Ontario (Canada) to immigrant parents from India, the 26-year-old sizzler moved to sunny California in 1996. […]
Oh boy, oh boy. As Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh cozies up to the Bush Administration, his youngest daughter Amrit Singh blasts the same administration for borrowing methods from tyrannical regimes (and she is right). In her new book Administration of Torture, Manmohan Singh’s U.S-based daughter Amrit Singh plunges the dagger deep into the rotting […]
Internet darling Google’s shares surged past $700 for the first time on Wednesday barely a few weeks after the stock breached the $600 barrier. Defying commonsense, Google shares closed at $707 Wednesday giving the Internet search company a market capitalization of $220.7 billion. Consider this – Google’s market capitalization is now higher than that of […]