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Monthly Archives: February 2010
Kindle Doesn’t Quite Work for Non-Fiction
Felix Salmon writes I’ve come to the clear conclusion that it simply isn’t suited for reading the vast majority of non-fiction. You might not even notice it when you’re doing it, but when you read a non-fiction work like this … Continue reading
Posted in Technology
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Europe is Getting Less Secular
The latest flap over halal meat served in a restaurant in France A French fast food chain’s decision to serve only halal meat in eight restaurants with a strong Muslim clientele has sparked a wave of criticism from politicians decrying … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Government
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My Son and Asperger’s Syndrome
Autism is in the news. My Name is Khan was released last weekend. The movie takes on some important topics (Asperger’s, religion based profiling). The movie was very average, but any movie with SRK in it is automatically big news. … Continue reading
Posted in Personal Updates
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Is Offshore Services a Scale Business
Earlier this week I wondered why Indian Offshore Services companies weren’t “bulking up” – basically acquiring companies just like themselves – just smaller and with perhaps lower P/Es. A reader left a thoughtful comment : I guess one of the … Continue reading
Posted in Offshore Services
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An Unsmart Phone and an iPad
My relationship with my phone is at a nadir. As I explained in an earlier post I had to get an Android phone because I use Google Voice which Apple refuses to allow into the iPhone app store. I got … Continue reading
Posted in Technology
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Employees Vote Apotheker Out of SAP
There are several interesting things about the change of guard at SAP. That Leo Apotheker resigned, (or his contract was not renewed) is hardly unique. But for the Chairman Hasso Plattner, to actually apologize to customers, and take some of … Continue reading
Posted in Business
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Offshore Services: Whither Consolidation?
In the last 18 months the markets took a deep dive and then recovered. Valuations in the Offshore Services industry yo-yoed, business prospects sank and then recovered. Yet amidst all this, the pace of acquisitions didn’t go up much. Apart … Continue reading
Posted in Offshore Services
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Money Begets Power Begets Money
Larry Lessig calls campaign fund-raising another form of corruption. It is interesting that in India if it were possible to get special interests to lawfully contribute to the campaign funds of politicians and not their own private accounts, we would … Continue reading
Posted in Government
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Corrupt Congress
Larry Lessig has an important article in The Nation about how campaign fund-raising has corrupted Congress. This is corruption. Not the corruption of bribes, or of any other crime known to Title 18 of the US Code. Instead, it is … Continue reading
Posted in Government
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Sena Mobocracy
As the Shiv Sena stokes the fires of communalism, parochialism and other uglisms, Shahrukh Khan remains unfazed. Siddharth Varadarajan writes When confronted by the mob power of the Shiv Sena, MNS or other right-wing groups, the police in India invariably … Continue reading
Posted in India
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