Lakshmi Mittal is Financial Times - Person of the year 2006
The Financial Times declared Lakshmi Mittal was their person of the year. Go to http://www.ft.com/indepth/person for an in depth look at the accomplishments ...
Toyota poised to become the world’s largest carmaker
Toyota plans to make 9.42 million cars in 2007 that will make it the world’s largest carmaker. General Motors, the current leader plans to make 9.11 million ...
Outlook 2007: Abby Joseph Cohen
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Texas Pacific Group
This private equity group is set to buy (in partnership) Qantasairlines, an A$11bn deal as well as Sabre Holdings for US$4.45bn. Theyhave turned around sever...
A tornado hits London
I woke up the day before yesterday morning, and got ready to go to work. As usual, I checked my Blackberry for new messages, and there it was, a message from...
Web 2.0
The Web 2.0 technology seems to have a lot of promise. O'Reilly Mediacoined the phrase. But essentially for business people what it meansis richer interactio...
Challenges Facing Baby-Boomers (Podcast)
I was listening to this interesting podcast on retiring baby-boomers. If you are one, you should listen. There are certain misconceptions which the guests ad...
Wikipedia - Editorial Policy
I have always been a big fan of the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia. Wikipedia allows people to create entries in the encyclopedia. If you know more about...
Outsourcing, of another kind!
A few months ago I was speaking to some of my friends at a lunch party. We were talking about outsourcing and this friend of mine said he was involved in the...
Internet Radio
I have been looking for reliable Internet Radio stations for some time now. So when I found SHOUTcast.com I was a little skeptical of its performance. I must...
Friends and Foes in the Tech World
The Wall Street Journal ran a story about eBay. They said that eBay is now trying to collaborate and team up with Microsoft and Yahoo! to develop solutions t...
Monarchy under fire
What is currently happening in Nepal is no surprise. The last couple of decades have been marked by political instability. In 2001 King Birendra and his fami...
Personal Productivity
A friend of mine recommended I should read David Allen’s book “Getting Things DONE”. So I went to the Barnes and Noble bookstore and picked up a copy. I alre...
Clipmarks.com
This seems like an interesting concept to me. The Clipmarks.com web site got a good review from PC Magazine. I checked out their demo, I think I am going to ...
Google Calendar
Just got notified by the good folks at About.com that Google launched it’s Calendar beta product. I haven’t played around with it yet, but go ahead and check...
Google’s Finance page
The other day, my brother-in-law mentioned that Google has created it’s own Finance page. I was very excited. I am a big fan of Google. They are one of the w...