Interesting activity.
Here’s the pic
Read the story on the link above.
sorry for all the lacklustre posts.
Don’t feel like posting about the exciting incidents in my life right now 😉
Well that is what FT reported. Some snippets:
The US Department of Transportation ruled that the latest airline venture backed by Sir Richard Branson, the UK entrepreneur, was effectively controlled by overseas investors, failing its crucial test for granting an operating certificate.
and
“Virgin America would have to revise its ownership, corporate structure and associated agreements to be 75 per cent owned and actually controlled by US citizens before it can receive an operating certificate,” said the DoT ruling.
For a country that prides itself in its free market economy, this stinks of protectionism. Well 9/11 did happen didn’t it?
Obviously there was Congressional interference.
What’s the point I got to make?
I am a smart alec who reads international news.
😛
Well one fine morning this is what I found in my googletalk window
Well answered.
And toothpaste counts too. And I’d let you steal mine for a just cause
😉
I’ve taken so many pictures that i dont feel like sorting them anymore.
My computer is a mess.
HELP!!!
See the link for more details …
According to U.S. Mint Director Edmund Moy, the U.S. vending machine industry stands to save $1 billion if consumers ditch their flimsy paper bills for $1 coins. The switch would eliminate maintenance on bill acceptance slots.
Talk about interconnectedness.
The comments board is open.
Apple is getting ahead … the most interesting announcement among all the new iPods, iTunes 7 etc. is the launch of the iTV.
Convergence is the name of the game and Apple has thrown its hat in the ring.
Due to be out in early 2007, its a box the size of a small DVD player that ‘you can just hook directly to your big flat-screen TV, or more likely, hook it to your set-top box.’ It can wirelessly send the movies and music you download from the Internet to your television. Of course the content comes from the iTunes website which you buy. Apple is already offering DVD quality highights of NFL games on iTunes.
Lets see what MS does next.
What do get when you cross absolutely jobless doctoral students with a top notch School and finding love?
Well … a PhD in dating.
So? Its the business of love.
This work carried out @ MIT Media Labs by a doctoral student and profs at MIT and HBS tries to optimise dating sites… and apparently its working
Read on
This one is from the Vietnam conflict.
Amnesty got it modified slightly and this is what we have…
The Prolific Dyslexic 
What we learnt in class today
Mergers and Acquisitions are the result of three theories
Theory X
Theory Y
Theory Z
Theory X
Theory Y
Theory Z
You can see a combination of these theories at work, when you research mergers and acquisitions.
People in HBR (Harvard Business Review) write nice stories which are good to read. You can read them and feel good. Sometimes they feel the need to use bombastic words, but generally they are easy to read and understand.
People of the level of IAS (Indian Administrative Service) also copy … word for word.
The West Bengal government is not a nice government
Lakshmi Mittal stayed in some building in Calcutta where a lot of other famous Marwaris also stayed.
“I” want numbers, I dont have any.
“I” love to spell words on the board.
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Learnings:
If you are hearing words for the first time, its high time you invested in a dictionary.
You came alone, you will go alone, so work alone.
In one word: Intreshting.
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