Nokia released its first quarter results today. And the key metrics are all down. Here are some interesting down, down, down statistics from Nokia’s First Quarter results: * Nokia Operating Profits Down 96% year-over-year * Nokia Sales Down 27% * Nokia Earnings Per Share Down 91% * Nokia Mobile Device Volumes Down 19% * Nokia […]
Folks, here comes the 22nd instalment of Incredible India, with those only-in-India stories. * This one is straight out of the Ripley’s Believe it or Not book and we were tongue-tied when we first heard this. Mahesh, a follower of Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, cut his tongue at a Hindu temple as a […]
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 […]