Even recessions have silver linings – as in less number of H1B applications (mostly from the Indian coolies for U.S. IT jobs). As of April 9, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services had received only 42,000 fresh H1B Visa applications for fiscal 2010 starting on October 1. CIS, which started accepting applications on April 1, said it’d […]
Folks, IT employment in the U.S. is down for the fourth consecutive month. According to the National Association of Computer Consultant Businesses, IT employment continues to fall in the U.S., with 31,300 jobs disappearing in March 2009. The loss of 31,000 IT jobs in March, amidst tough economic times for American families, comes on the […]
Google’s Asia-Pacific and Latin America head Sukhinder Singh Cassidy has left the company and dropped anchor at VC firm Accel Partners, where she will be CEO-In-Residence. <
Since binge drinking is verboten to us, we’re gonna engage in another (less harmful) form of excess, a movie binge. It’s Wednesday. So we trooped over to RedBox for our free fix of Hollywood movies. We picked up Meryl Streep’s Oscar nominated Doubt. Besides Meryl Streep, the movie got four other Oscars nominations (but failed […]
Never in the battle against the deadly scourge of terrorism have so many owed so much to so few (thank you, Churchill). Today, thanks to the brave and valiant soldiers of the Sri Lankan Army, LTTE, one of the most cruel terrorist organization the world has ever seen, is facing annihilation. Although the LTTE’s certain […]
These are hard times for Sori Padam Surya. Close on the heels of a ho hum reception for Surya’s Vaaranam Aayiram comes a poor response to his latest crap show Ayan. Ayan, a most crappy movie, grossed a pathetic £37,771 in its opening weekend at the UK box office. On an average gross basis, Ayan did […]