In one of the ironies of life, Saawariya – the better movie of this Diwali -has collapsed in its second week at the U.S. Box office while that crass, crude Shahrukh Khan film Om Shanti Om continues to rule in the U.S. For the November 16-18 weekend, Saawariya’s gross collection came in at $150,208, down 72.3% from last week. […]
Vel featuring Surya, Asin and Vadivelu is a little better than Azhagiya Tamil Magan but that’s small consolation for Tamil movie fans. Vel’s biggest weakness is its pedestrian, beaten to death simplistic story of two brothers separated when young and growing up separately. Repeated in Hindi, Tamil and other Indian language films ad nauseum ad infinitum […]
Even those leaders like Lenin, Stalin, Mao and Che Guevara who were at the vanguard of a real revolution did not have a fancy title like Tamil movie star Vishal Reddy. After his appearance in just half-a-dozen Tamil films, Vishal Reddy has now taken on the title of Puratchi Thalapathi or Revolutionary Commander. Wow, in […]
Gulf nation Abu Dhabi has reportedly acquired a 8.1% stake in American microprocessor firm AMD for about $700 million. The purchase is being routed through Mubadala Development, a wholly owned investment vehicle of the Government of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, in the United Arab Emirates. Mubadala’s mandate is to set up new companies and acquire strategic […]
Amazon.com is set to roll out its much anticipated Kindle e-book reader on Monday kindling hopes that at least this time e-books will take off. Early reports suggest that Kindle will include a Wi-Fi connection to let consumers connect to Amazon’s e-book store and buy electronic books. Priced at $399, the Kindle device is also supposed to […]
Google hit a road bump in its proposed acquisition of online banner ad services provider DoubleClick with the European Union’s antitrust regulators deciding to open an in-depth investigation into the deal. In their initial market investigation, EU officials found the proposed merger would raise competition concerns in the markets for intermediation and ad serving in […]