Om Malik’s GigaOm blog network has raised $4.5 million in a new round of financing. GigaOm is a decent source of information on digital media and a blog that we read fairly often. Early-stage VC firm Alloy Ventures was the lead investor in the latest round, which included participation from existing primary investor True Ventures […]
Yes, the recidivist dickheads in Bollywood have done it again. You ask, done what again? We say, what else – Theft. Kidnap director Sanjay Gadhvi and his dirty accomplices in crime have stolen a fairly decent Hollywood movie (released in 2007 as Shattered in the U.S. and Butterfly on a Wheel elsewhere) and mangled it […]
Just days after Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit was gloating about picking up the banking business of Wachovia Corporation with the blessings and support of the U.S. government, Wells Fargo seems to have snatched the prize away. The Wachovia board has approved Wells Fargo’s offer of $15.1 billion ($7 per Wachovia share), which does not require […]
The latest issue of New Yorker magazine (Oct 6, 2008) has an HSBC commercial banking ad on P.30 which claims that in Punjab washing machines are not used just for laundry. Apparently, washing machines are also used in the North Indian state of Punjab as a yoghurt blender to make that delicious drink all Indians […]
Flash of Genius, which released in U.S. theatres today, is a lovely David vs Goliath movie based on the real life story of college professor and inventor Robert Kearns’s battle against auto giant Ford Motor Company. Gregory Kinnear stars as the doughty fighter Bob Kearns who battles the then mighty but now feeble car maker […]
Thieving Bollywood Scumbags Strike Again with Kidnap Hey, if we were desperate to drool over some nice boobs we’d have gone to a titty-bar not to the Kidnap movie to ogle at Minissha Lambha’s not-so-great tatas on a screen that’s over 30-feet away. Minissha Lamba’s so-so hooters notwithstanding, Kidnap director Sanjay Gadhvi milks them knockers […]