Over its 25-year history, Sun Microsystems has seen many talented executives come and go. Among them founder Vinod Khosla and long time CEO Scott McNealy (now Chairman). But one executive seems to have been at Sun forever even as the company’s prospects soared during the dot com days, faded subsequently and then painfully stabilized. And […]
If you love movies as much as we do, you’ll love the book Eyewitness Companions – Film. For movie buffs, the 501-page book provides a nice introduction to the films business and whets the appetite for more indepth reading. Besides giving us an overview of the Story of Cinema from 1895 to the present, this book also […]
Madhuri Dixit’s comeback vehicle Aaja Nachle turned out to be quite a bit of disappointment. A lightweight film with few rewarding surprises, there’s not much going for Aaja Nachle besides fine performances by Konkona Sen and Kunal Kapoor and an average performance by yesteryear Bollywood queen Madhuri Dixit (now living in the U.S.) Most of all, […]
Reeling from massive losses due to its disastrous missteps in the subprime mortgage segment, embattled financial services giant Citigroup is getting a $7.5 billion cash infusion from Gulf nation Abu Dhabi through a sale of Equity Units convertible into shares. The Abu Dhabi investment is expected to close within the next several days. The badly-needed cash […]
Search giant Google is looking to offer an online data storage service that will let consumers store their files on the company’s hard drives, access them on the Internet and share them online with friends, according to a story in Tuesday’s Wall Street Journal (subscription required). Apparently, the plan is to offer some free storage with additional […]
Update: Broadway Strike ended on November 28, 2007 As the strike by the stagehands continues this busy holiday season, the lights remain off on much of Broadway, New York’s busy theater district near Times Square. Stagehands, the folks who work behind the scenes to create all those magnificent Broadway shows, are at war with the […]