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Global Crossing Chairman Resigns ::Gary Winnick, who made hundreds of millions of dollars selling Global Crossing stock before its collapse earlier this year, said yesterday that he was resigning as the company’s chairman. Winnick’s announcement came after two companies, Hutchison Whampoa of Hong Kong and Singapore Technologies Telemedia, recently completed their acquisition of Global Crossing’s [...]

New York Times is not mincing many words in its review of Kaante:the movie. Apparently the reviewer didn’t like the movie quite very much. “There are a couple of extended, snazzily edited music videos, set in what is apparently Los Angeles’ most fabulous Hindi strip joint, as well as an amazing sequence in which [...]

Finally Time magazine has discovered Bolloywood. In the year end issue of the magazine, Time placed Devdas at fourth in its list of top ten films in the world cinema. Mira Nair’s ‘Monsoon Wedding‘ is also among the top ten films from the West in 2002, according to the magazine which described the film as [...]

A few days ago I received a shining new Samsung SmartPhone - it is beautiful, colorful and elegant. Think of it as the Salma Hayek of wireless phones. I will have a full review later; but meanwhile check out this article I managed to dig-out from the Red Herring archives. I checked, a year later [...]

Last Sunday I was interviewed by Business Week Television about the life in the tech-land after the dot-com bust. While we talked at length about many companies, the focus was centered around FreshDirect.com, a post-bust WebVan clone which is just amazing. I am so in love with Fresh Direct grocery delivery service - the company [...]

Well apparently my former colleague at Forbes, Caroline Waxler, now a freelance journalist thinks so. She has recently been writing for the New York Post and according to Keith Kelly of the NY daily she has sold a book to John Wiley & Sons based on her November story in Worth about investing in sex-related [...]