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Facebook not a waste of time- prove Egyptians
Betty White on Saturday Night Live made the famous comment that Facebook sounded like a "huge waste of time". Well,the Egyptians proved today that it is not! President Mubarak stepped down after a non-violent street protest unprecedented in recent memory. By all accounts Facebook (and Twitter) made the Egyptian revolution possible. Online communication helped rallyContinue reading “Facebook not a waste of time- prove Egyptians”
Jobs report: need to look at “Two-speed” economy of chicken tikka vs. chicken wings
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India: A Raja is arrested in 2G telecom scam: learning to deal with the messiness of democracy
With all the excitement in Egypt even the BBC covered the arrest of A. Raja only briefly. A. Raja is the former Indian telecom minister who is alleged to have sold the very lucrative 2G wireless phone licenses in 2008 at 2001 rates to private companies costing the Indian government billions of dollars in lostContinue reading “India: A Raja is arrested in 2G telecom scam: learning to deal with the messiness of democracy”
Wikileaks is the third cusp in the information age- nothing is confidential and execution is the critical skill!
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Jobless rate in US climbs by 0.2 % and the DOW climbs by almost same rate!
Today (December 2010) as the US jobless rate climbed by 0.2% to a dismal 9.8% the stock market actually went up by 0.17% which when rounded is a 0.2% rise! Experts on the stock market say that the market believes that the Government actions will increase as will be the bipartisan moves in the USContinue reading “Jobless rate in US climbs by 0.2 % and the DOW climbs by almost same rate!”
WikiLeaks on Cyber Monday – adding value when all information is available
The latest round of WikiLeaks on Cyber Monday (November 2010) is ironic. Cyber Monday got its name from early days of the Internet when folks would go to work on the weekend after Thanksgiving and use the high speed office broadband for Internet shopping for Christmas and the holidays.Now the Cyber Monday deals start onContinue reading “WikiLeaks on Cyber Monday – adding value when all information is available”
As US auto starts booming again time to bailout weaker Tier 1 Tier 2 suppliers who could not globalize
When US auto sales declined from 17 million in 2005 to a low of 10.5 milliom in 2009 the suppliers whether Tier 1 or Tier 2 got squeezed. The demand for lower costs and market contraction meant that weaker auto suppliers barely stayed alive and certainly could not globalize into low-cost locations. There was neither hope nor cash to expand globally.
Warm weather helps US shoppers go out to malls and auto sales are up
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Ahead of President Obama India visit- India signs IAEA treaty to limit nuclear accident liability to operators
The Indian nuclear power equipment market is estimated (October 2010) at 175 Billion $ and both GE and Westinghouse are very interested in supplying nuclear power equipment. Worrying potential US suppliers, Indian lawmakers in August had passed a law that might have made equipment suppliers liable for 80 years in case there was an accident and faulty equipment was to blame. Obviously the memories of Bhopal don’t fade and a nuclear leak like Chernobyl would be catastrophic in densely populated India.
[Note: This post is from October 27, 2010 and was edited for formatting on May 22, 2021]