First it was the H1B software coolies that began screwing American workers (thanks to greedy U.S. corporations). Now, the down-on-their-luck American workers are being bitch slapped by other things Indian. The New York Times has an interesting article today on how Indian steel pipes are being used in an oil pipeline project in Granite City, […]
Worldwide PC shipments (desktops and notebooks) in the first quarter of 2009 were down 7.1% year over year to 63.46 million units, according to the number crunchers at IDC. IDC said there was a sizable decline in PC shipments in India but did not disclose details. The U.S. market was down 3.1% to 14.96 million units. […]
What a frigging nightmare. We mean the fiendishly complicated U.S. tax forms. Finally, we managed to complete the darn tax forms. Today, i.e. April 15Â is the deadline for all Americans to file their tax returns for 2008. Notwithstanding its horribly complicated sections, we’re proud to tell you that we’ve always done the tax returns on […]
One country’s misery fuels another country’s prosperity. As the U.S. reels under a cataclysmic recession, Indian tech firms like Infosys Technologies that provide software and BPO services for large American corporations are riding the wave of success. India’s software giant Infosys turned in yet another quarter of impressive results and added nearly 5,000 jobs (gross) even […]
India has been a dismal failure at attracting foreign tourists compared to even tiny nations like Croatia. Frequent terrorist bombings in major Indian tourist hubs like Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore et al, the global recession and rape and murder of tourists must surely be causing nightmares to the somnolent pen-pushers in India’s moribund Ministry of Tourism. As […]