Citigroup CEO Charles Prince is toast and is expected to quit at an emergency board meeting scheduled for Sunday, according to the Wall Street Journal (subscription required). And the word on the street is that Citi will report another big write-off and more losses. In more bad news for Citi, the Securities and Exchange Commission, which […]
Even in the land of Khushboo a.k.a the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu, thin is apparently in these days. Besides the voluptuous yesteryear actress Khushboo (for whom devoted fans once built a temple), several prominent Tamil heroines like Jyothika, Ramya, Nagma, Sripriya  and Nayantara have been rather plump by Hollywood – and even Bollywood […]
Indian beauty queen and Bollywood actress Aishwarya Rai is in the final stages of obtaining a U.S. trademark for her name from the United States Patent and Trademark Office, a federal agency under the U.S. Department of Commerce. Most likely, Aishwarya Rai will be the first Bollywood star to get the coveted USPTO trademark. Getting […]
Oh, what an irony! Recent disclosures by UK’s National Archives that author extraordinaire George Orwell, who wrote about Big Brother (the State) watching its citizens in his anti-totalitarian classic 1984, was himself monitored by the British domestic security service MI5 for over two decades is perhaps one of the greatest ironies ever. British security agents suspected […]
HP’s executive VP of Imaging and Printing group Vyomesh Joshi may have lost out in the race to head one of Silicon Valley’s storied computer companies. But the man has not been not standing still. On Tuesday, HP’s Imaging and Printing group, headed by Joshi, rolled out 17 new printers as well as a $300 […]
This is straight out of Ripley’s Believe it or Not. Remember those clowns in the U.S. intelligence services who failed to see the 9/11 attack coming but managed to see non-existent weapons of mass destruction. Yes, those dodos now want to launch an internal communication tool called A-Space modelled on the popular social networking sites MySpace and Facebook. […]