Category archives for: In The News

Jim Rogers: CNBC is a Market PR Agency

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Jim is a straight shooter. He is one the best minds there is who has uncanny knack with commodities and macro trends. I pay attention whenever he talks. You too should pay attention to this veteran and ignore other pigs who always promote the Street on CNBS.
He echoes my sentiment, “European Stress Test is a [...]

Loss = Gain; Is it a Balanced Equation? Give it a Thought !

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The equation I mentioned above relates to the psychology of people staying away from India.  We are excited to come here (Away from our country) and study and then initially miss our family and later we decide to stay? Money, comfort versus family, friends, relatives and  hometown and our own nationality.  Does one [...]

The largest Multi-Touch trackpad ever

Along with hardware upgrades to their Mac Pro, iMac, and Cinema Display lines, Apple unveiled something entirely different for owners of their desktop computers: a fully functional, stand-alone “Magic Trackpad” that offers the same multi-finger control of the MacBook trackpad.
It’s likely the first move by a major manufacturer to push finger controls [...]

Obama Administration is “Incompetent”

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It really hurts me to say that I agree with Newt Gingrich, but I agree with him in calling Obama administration being “incompetent,” with respect to firing Shirley Sherrod.
It hurts me even more to agree with Fix News: “The fact is, Obama Administration forced Sherrod to quit.” True. Based on what? Based on some fringe [...]

Desi Browser – Epic

Impressive stuff… feels great to see browsers to be developed in India.
In the CEO’s words:

The Epic Browser is the first-ever web browser for India and the first product from the software company Hidden Reflex.
Hidden Reflex is a software product startup founded by Alok Bhardwaj in 2007 and based in Bangalore. Alok, who was [...]

Bad News to IT Systems Vendors and Consulting companies

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Analyst firm Gartner has formed a new advocacy council around the issue of IT maintenance contracts and issued a “code of conduct” it wants vendors to follow, actions that could further intensify an already hot topic.
Maintenance fees, which are charged annually in exchange for product updates, bug fixes and technical support, have come under increased [...]

iPhone Antenna Problem Funny Chinese Animation

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Watch it in its entirety. Don’t know if you remember Tiger Woods crashing the car while wife chasing him animation, it has become normal for thes chinese media channels to animate few popular news

Goldman Buys the Law on the Cheap

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Yes, that should be the proper headline for the settlement of Goldman Sachs, the Emperor of Fraudsters, with SEC.

Via AP News:
WASHINGTON (AP) — Goldman Sachs & Co. has agreed to pay $550 million to settle civil fraud charges that the Wall Street giant misled buyers of mortgage-related investments.
The settlement was announced by [...]

Dylan Ratigan Shows Some Guts

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Guts, or kahunas as some would call it, look like this:
In this video, Dylan raises temperature on the congressman who does nothing but divert the topic to criticize the Govt and spew Republican talking points.
Talking point #1: Indict the Federal Government
Talking point #2: Divert the topic to all Republican talking points
And the ending [...]

Another Student gets killed

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This time in Connecticut. I feel sad, someone needs to tell the kids to be careful. Sometimes it happens no matter how protective you can be, like that Indian scientist who was killed in his “Safe Neighborhood”. I really feel bad in my stomach.
Read the news via eenadu.net

Financial “Engineers,” Rethink Your Relevance to the Society

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So, you are a financial “professional” on Wall Street. You think the world owes you bazillion dollars because you are: a) very smart, and b) you have an MBA in finance, may be from Wharton, or Harvard or Columbia and therefore what you do must be good. You claim that your financial “innovations” help the [...]

Meeting with the Srikrishna Committee & the Governor of Andhra Pradesh

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A number of you have asked for the details of APNRI’s meeting with the Srikrishna Committee and the Governor of Andhra Pradesh; so, here you go.
We’ve arrived in Hyderabad early in the morning on 15th June. Srinivas garu went to Hyderabad a couple of weeks earlier. He booked a room at a local club to [...]

Is “Plunge Protection Team” a Myth?

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When Congressman Alan Grayson asked this question, Bernanke said in a written statement, “No!”
But a lot of market participants believe that the government does in fact intervene in markets in many overt and covert ways, one of which is to buy S&P futures. CNBS guys debunk this. [This via Zero Hedge]
A highly amusing exchange occurred [...]

Joel Stein Dosen’t Like Desis

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Here we go (via Huffington Post) …
Joel Stein says he was going for humor in his opinion piece, “My Own Private India,” which ran in Monday’s TIME Magazine. But the Indian-American community — members of which serve as the butt of many of Stein’s jokes — aren’t laughing.
Stein’s piece focuses on the cultural [...]

It’s time for Chidambaram to go

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Sri Chidamabaram is the Home Minister of a country that took on Khalistani extremist violence in Punjab head-on. A country that fought three wars with Pakistan and is battling hardcore terrorists in Kashmir every day. A country that battled LTTE militants in Sri Lanka. A country that rescued Maldives that was under mercenaries’ siege. Indian [...]

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