Valley Chai

Posted by mobile phone:
msft withdraws the bid. i guess (a) msft will come back again (b) yhoo probably has one more quarter to blow open the growth in sales (c) and for employees, a bit longer view of what they’ll be working on.
yahoo ego has been wounded by this whole saga, and there are still […]

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it’s a familiar question. ‘how is it working in india?’ is probably the question i get asked most. and admittedly, what i used to ask myself before i moved. and here is the low-down.
from time-spent point of view, i do spend a lot more time working in india than when i was in the US. […]

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babajob.com seems to have a decent number of listings of people available for domestic help, mainly in bangalore. click below to see what they offer.
the site shows quite a bit of promise, but clearly are getting ahead of themselves. the registration process has a big bug, and yet they have opened a half-baked social network […]

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today’s Times of India (very much like San Jose Mercury News in content and coverage) front page carried a very interesting article about how the reserve bank of india will issue guidelines for payments through a mobile phones. since their e-paper is so pathetic, i have copied and pasted the article below (sorry TOI).
New Delhi: […]

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gotta love these vid’s.
checkout a bit of glengarry glen ross, and get a glimpse the the sales culture.

from boiler room “A sale is Made on Every Call”

and this, the classic. “Greed is Good”

and a bit of pool hall philosophy on winning and losing between fast eddie and bert gordon after getting beat by minnesota fats […]

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