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Struggling internet giant of yore, Yahoo! has named Carol Bartz, chairman and former CEO of Autodesk as successor to Jerry Yang, who stepped down a couple of months ago.

Dipchand ‘Deep’ Nishar is all set to leave Google and join LinkedIn. A six year veteran who built and managed Google’s mobile business worldwide besides being Sr. Director of Product Management with responsibility for product development in the APAC region, Nishar is joining LinkedIn as Vice President-Products, and expected to begin in his new role from [...]

On November 22, 1963, US President John F.Kennedy was shot dead in Dallas, Texas. This is probably one of the greatest whodunits ever, with no conclusive evidence about the events of that day. So many theories, that it’s simply mind boggling…

After almost 18 tumultous months at the helm, Jerry Yang, co-founder of Yahoo! has decided to step down from his present role of CEO. The internet giant has been beset with problems all year long, right from the time Microsoft attempted a hostile takeover bid which Yang’ rebuffed, becoming a bone of contention between the management and top [...]

And………… another weekend comes to an end… well, the above title pretty much sums up the events of the past couple of days !! I finally went for my long delayed test drive of the Hyundai i10 Kappa. As may be obvious from my other posts, I’m quite firm in my belief that automatic transmissions will replace stick shifts [...]

Chanced upon an interesting article on Rediff (which in itself was quite ‘interesting’, considering the mostly lousy stuff they put up these days). :p The article pertains to the 1936 Olympics, held at Berlin. Hitler had become a force to reckon with, and this event was meant to showcase Nazi supremacy, when along came a black man and [...]

John Templeton, the renowned investor and philanthropist has passed away due to pneumonia. He was 95. In a celebrated career, he became one of the world’s richest men, gave up his American citizenship in the ’60s, moved to the Bahamas, and was knighted by the Queen of England.