What an irony! When Indian IT companies like Tata Consultancy Services and Wipro are stepping up their investments in the U.S., VMware is going the other way. Virtualization software house VMware joined the hordes of U.S. corporations that are screwing American workers with its just-announced plans to boost research and development operations in India through […]
Karan Bhatia has been named a GE Officer, a prestigious position in the diversified multinational corporation. Worldwide, GE has just 197 GE Officers, who lead large revenue generating businesses or occupy critical functional roles. The 39-year-old Bhatia was named GE’s new VP and senior counsel, international government relations and policy recently. Before joining GE, Bhatia was […]
Sanjay Mehrotra is a co-founder of Silicon Valley-based SanDisk, manufacturer of removable storage cards, flash drives and MP3 players. SanDisk’s products are used in digital cameras, multi-function mobile phones, USB flash drives, digital audio/video players and other digital consumer devices Before becoming President and COO of SanDisk in April 2006, Sanjay worked as Director of memory […]
Who’d have thought that the Indian education system would become the envy of a highly developed country! Today’s New York Times has an interesting front page piece on how the Japanese are now increasingly fascinated with the Indian education system. As the NYT piece puts it: Bookstores are filled with titles like “Extreme Indian Arithmetic Drills†and […]
Outsourcing to software centers in Bangalore or call centers in Chennai are passe. So 20th centuryish. The latest frontier in outsourcing to India is womb rentals for foreigners who require a surrogate, according to an Associated Press story by Sam Dolnick in USA Today. A team of maids, cooks and doctors looks after the women, whose […]
Come on, if you really can’t answer the above question about our hot Bollywood and Kollywood babes, you are just not looking in the right place. Well, if you are too shortsighted to notice, the short answer is: Namitha, Mallika and Urmila are all booby-traps. Now, don’t ask us what a booby-trap is. Ignore the […]