Nazia who, might well be the question posed by youngsters in India today. Pakistani Crooner Well, Nazia was a young London-based Pakistani pop singer who became an overnight sensation with Feroze Khan’s Qurbani (Zeenat Aman, Feroze Khan, Vinod Khanna) in 1980. Nazia followed up the Qurbani success with her first LP Disco Deewane (Nazia’s brother […]
We’ve never been great fans of Fox, America’s fair and balanced network. But the video of Fox 5’s recent sting operation at the Hindu Temple of Georgia in Atlanta makes for interesting watching. You see, it’s all about money. And the commercialization of Hindu temples in America. Here’s the brief story of the Hindu Temple […]
Struggling communications company Motorola has named Sanjay Jha its co-CEO and CEO of the Mobile Devices business. The Mobile Devices business has been a complete disaster for Motorola without any big hits after the Razr phone. Motorola’s Mobile Devices business reported an operating loss of $346 million on sales of $3.33 billion in Q2. Sales […]
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 […]
If a $2.5 billion loss is progress (even if it’s half the $5.1b loss of Q1), then our greedy desi butcher and Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit uses a different dictionary from the rest of us. This morning struggling financial services giant Citigroup announced a loss of $2.5 billion for its second quarter ended June 30, […]