http://www.tongbram.com Blog on Life, Myself, Technology, Business and the Internet! Fri, 12 Dec 2008 06:21:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.tongbram.com/real-estate-in-india-to-fall-by-40-more/ 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 ... http://www.tongbram.com/buying-stocks-now/ 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 ... http://www.tongbram.com/immigrants-are-more-likely-to-be-entrepreneurs/ 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, the overall ... http://www.tongbram.com/indian-companies-h2-profit-goodstocks-down/ 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 ... http://www.tongbram.com/thrivent-financial-for-lutherans-choses-salesforce-for-wealth-management/ 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.. http://www.tongbram.com/nuke-deal-will-spawn-a-million-jobs/ 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 ... http://www.tongbram.com/a-weeks-worth-of-blogging/ 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 ... http://www.tongbram.com/touching-real-life-story/ 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 ... http://www.tongbram.com/forget-global-warming-beware-of-global-cooling/ Less than one month into 2008, in the technology community the money and investments all appears to be flowing to open source. Just recently open source database software company MySQL was acquired for $1Billion by Sun Microsystems and open source adserver OpenAds received $15.5Million in Series B VC funding. While ... http://www.tongbram.com/open-source-fetches-12-billion-in-january/