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Saturday, March 19th, 2011

Happy Holi

Happy Holi Everyone! Holi, for the uninitiated is the festival of colors. On these rowdy kids throw water missiles, and balloons filled with water, sometime dirty water, and throw these to un suspecting strangers. Friends and relatives also smear each other with colors that stains harder than tattoos. Drunk youths roam the streets of India [...]

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Tuesday, November 23rd, 2010

Job Recruitment Scam

I got an Email about a Job Interview. I got a very well written Email telling me that I will get a letter and an Airline Ticket for the interview, once I have deposited 10500 into their account. This amount is refundable. This was an Obvious Scam Artist, but the fact that they are sending [...]

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Sunday, October 17th, 2010

Google Places

If you own a Local business, sign up for Google Places. Most people search for local services and businesses via GOOGLE only.

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Monday, August 30th, 2010

Reddit Takes Over Digg, Rediggted?

The other day, it was spammers who took over the Digg front page. Today is the Reddit that took over Digg. Apparently today’s rediggtion was orchestrated by angry Digg users who aren’t too pleased with the new Changes. That reddit is all over the front page of Digg is on Reddit as well, obviously. And [...]

No Comments » - Posted in Tech News by Tony

Friday, August 27th, 2010

Digg Fail Taken over by Spammer

A New Digg was launched. And while they are ironing out the kinks, they decided to get some “more” linkbait, and introduced a nice Fail Ox. Move over fail whale. Techcrunch covered the Fail OX, but did they notice the Bigger Fail that is happening? The new Digg also just got taken over by Spammer. [...]

1 Comment » - Posted in Tech News by Tony

Thursday, April 1st, 2010

Google is now Topeka

With Elevendy millions of searches every day on Google, chances are that my couple of readers must also have noticed today that they are not on Google Anymore. They are in Kansas.. Topeka, KS to be precise. As a Reciprocating gesture to what Topeka a few months back when the mayor of Topeka annunced that [...]

7 Comments » - Posted in Google by Tony

Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008

Why you should be buying stocks now!

An excellent article on why we should buying stocks now, though we hesitate.. As the author says, When new clients come to me, I ask them a few questions about risk. One is “What would you do if the value of your stocks fell by 50%?” The vast majority answer that they would buy more [...]

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Friday, November 28th, 2008

Immigrants are more likely to be entrepreneurs

16.7% of all new business owners are Immigrants? I thought it might be more. Hasn’t that always been the case? First it was the Irish and polish Immigrants, then the chinese immigrants, and now Pakistanis and Indians. Now, a November 2008 study by Robert W. Fairlie, a professor at the University of California at Santa [...]

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Tuesday, October 21st, 2008

Indian Companies are Doing Great, But Stocks are not!

Jai Prakash Associates net profit up 96% in Quater II ZEE Q2 PAT up 84% Polaris Software PAT up 89% NIIT Q2 Net up 41% Opto Circuits PAT up 100% PTL ( Punjab Tractors Limited) Sales up 41% These are from the Economic Times, Today. Had it been 2007, I would have smiled. But today, [...]

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Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

Thrivent Financial for Lutherans chooses Salesforce for Wealth Management

One more good news for the SaaS enthusiast.. Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM), the market and technology leader in Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), today announced that Thrivent Financial for Lutherans, a Fortune 500 financial services membership organization, is standardizing on Salesforce for Wealth Management. The company is deploying Salesforce for Wealth Management and will leverage the [...]

1 Comment » - Posted in SaaS,Tech News by Tony