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 […]
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 🙂
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 […]
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 […]
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
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
ఏడాది క్రితం జరిగిన ఆసిడ్ దాడి విని కళ్ళలో నీళ్ళు వచ్హాయి. ఇప్పుడు ఈ వార్త వింటుంటే కూడా కళ్ళలో నీళ్ళే. ఎంత మానసిక స్థైర్యం వుండాలి అలాంటి సంఘటన నుంచి కోలుకొని, కల సాకారం చేసుకోవడానికి. Watch this video on YouTube
She is baaaaaack! You may recall one of my earlier posts in which I featured a Frontline documentary on Brooksley Born. Well, this visionary and caring woman got to take on the chief criminal himself. From Huffington Post: The panel created to investigate the roots of the financial crisis escalated the government’s assault on Goldman […]
శ్రీ కృష్ణ దేవరాయలు కట్టించిన గోపురం నిన్న, సమర్పించిన నగలు ఈ రోజు. ఏమిటో మనకు పట్టిన ఈ దౌర్భాగ్యం.
This guy doesn’t mince any words. With exception of a reference to ‘teleprompter’ (what does got to do with anything he said?), and a vicious attack on Obama, – he is right on. ———-
William Fleckenstein is a great resource of sanity in the midst of bubble. He is my erstwhile blogging buddy on Silicon Investor before he catapulted into mainstream punditry. In fact, I got schooled a lot from him about Greenspan’s follies. Bill weighed in today about markets. Watch and think. “after having completely ignored the bursting […]
