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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 [...]

6 Comments » - Posted in Google by Tony

Thursday, December 11th, 2008

Real Estate in India to fall by 40% more

In an interview with Ghulam Zia, National Director Research & Advisory Services, Knight Frank (India) Pvt Ltd by moneycontrol, he mentioned that real estate prices in india might correct by 35-40% on properties that have peaked. Good news for everyone who have waited for 1 year (two years?) now? I have been saying this for [...]

1 Comment » - Posted in Business,Good News,Real Estate 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 [...]

No Comments » - Posted in Stock market by Tony

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 [...]

No Comments » - Posted in Uncategorized by Tony

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, [...]

No Comments » - Posted in Stock market by Tony

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

Monday, July 28th, 2008

Nuke Deal will spawn a million jobs

The nuclear deal will spin off a 100000 new jobs. Good for the country. Good for Rahul Gandhi. And the game goes on. So this was all it was about.. And the opposition never looked so stupid..

No Comments » - Posted in Politics by Tony

Wednesday, March 12th, 2008

A weeks worth of blogging!

Its been a crazy week. I guess its been three weeks. Even went home… for just a day, missed my best friends wedding, bahhh but I managed to meet my DEAD line. Got invite for the first tweet-up. It is like a blog meet, but for twitter users. It is going to be a blog [...]

4 Comments » - Posted in Personal,Stock market,Tech News by Tony

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

Touching Real Life Story?

I usually play the FM sometimes on my drive to Office everyday, but I am not a big fan of any of the Channels or RJs. I just browse the channels at random. And there was this soft spoken RJ today who narrated an Incident. I think, she said something like, it was an incident [...]

3 Comments » - Posted in Personal by Tony

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

Forget Global Warming, beware of Global Cooling!

Dailytech writes that a twelve month long drop in world temperature wipes out a century of global warming. Sounds good. But then, we don’t want an Ice Age situation like The day after. Moreover, what we should remember is that the cooling could as well be a result of the Global Warming disrupting the natural [...]

No Comments » - Posted in Environment by Tony