Social networking web sites seem to be the big rage in Internet-land with News Corp, Microsoft and Google all owing a piece of the action in this hot segment. Now media laggard HT Media, parent company of the Hindustan Times newspaper, has belatedly developed the social networking itch. The slow-moving HT Media says its subsidiary Firefly e-Ventures […]
On Monday, the Indian stock market sent a strong message of the economic vibrancy in the country to visiting U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson by driving the BSE Sensex to a record high of 20,000 points. The BSE Sensex is an index of 30 large and actively traded stocks on the Bombay Stock Exchange. After […]
Senior U.S. officials are quietly pressuring India to sign the nuclear deal that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has put on the backburner because of domestic political compulsions. After all, at stake for the American companies like GE and Westinghouse are multi-billion dollar contracts. U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, the Chief Spokesman for big American businesses, […]
Remember FEMA, the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency clowns who botched up the Katrina relief operations? Well, the FEMA buffoons are at it again, doing what they do best – Making an ass of themselves. In the latest incident, the FEMA bozos organized a fake press conference the other day to discuss the California wildfires where their […]
Update: Neera Tanden is now Domestic Policy Director for the Obama Campaign now that Hillary Clinton’s White House dreams have turned to dust. ————————- Neera who, you might say. But if Hillary Clinton were to win the Presidency, you can bet on hearing a lot more about Neera Tanden in the coming years. An Indian-American, […]
Struggling with its Internet misadventures in the face of the relentless Google onslaught, a desperate Microsoft is investing $240 million in social networking web site Facebook Inc. Google, which was also keen on a deal with Facebook, has a social networking web site Orkut that’s popular in India and Brazil but has yet to catch on in the […]