Manu Thapar has joined social networking web site MySpace as Senior VP of Engineering. At MySpace, Manu is responsible for overseeing the company’s infrastructure, security and high priority projects, as well as creating an offshore development team for MySpace. Before joining MySpace, Manu served as VP of Engineering for Yahoo, where he was responsible for software infrastructure […]
Philadelphia-based life science venture capital firm Quaker BioVentures has promoted Geeta Vemuri to Partner. Vemuri was earlier a Principal at the firm. Geeta Vemuri Before joining Quaker in 2003, Vemuri was an associate at Toucan Capital, responsible for investments in seed and start-up biotech companies. She’s also worked as an associate analyst at Salomon Smith […]
What a shame. Desi butcher and Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit, who’s been butchering Citi jobs even while feeding like a greedy pig at the trough, has to suffer the ignominy of seeing his hedge fund Old Lane shut down following a mediocre performance. Vikram Pandit Here’s what the Wall Street Journal (subscription required) reports on […]
Poor Night Shyamalan badly needs a hit. His last Hollywood movie Lady in the Water was a box-office disaster and the one before that – The Village – didn’t do that well either. On June 13, comes a critical test for Night Shyamalan with his new movie The Happening releasing in theaters in the U.S. Shyamalan, […]
Statistic of the Day – Desis in Spelling Bee 2009 15 Desis Make it to Spelling Bee Semifinals Desis Fare Well in Spelling Bee 2009 Early Rounds Indian-American Sameer Mishra has won the 2008 Spelling Bee competition. Sameer Mishra is a 13-year-old, 8th grade student at the West Lafayette Junior/Senior High School in West Lafayette, […]
Sameer Gandhi of Sequoia Capital has joined Accel Partners as partner in their Palo Alto office. At Accel, Sameer will help develop companies in the consumer Internet and software segments. At Sequoia Capital, Sameer had been a partner leading several investments including Barracuda Networks, eHarmony, Gracenote (acquired by Sony), Marketlive and Sourcefire (FIRE) among others […]