Category: Blog
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Hostile Takeover: Oracle, the second
Hostile Takeover: Oracle, the second largest software maker , has launched a hostile takeover attack on <a href="http://www.peoplesoft.com" target=new391PeopleSoft. The bid would roughly cost $5.1 billion for Oracle. Oracle is offering $16 cash per share for each share of PeopleSoft, a roughly 6 percent premium over PeopleSoft’s closing price last Thursday of $15.11. Larry Ellison,…
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Here is an survey article
Here is an survey article that says the best invetion ever is ……toothbrush. Phew!!, you might think but MIT professor Merton Flemings is pretty exited to say this. Taking about inventions, he also says about Farnswoth who devoted his life to develop the basis of today’s television. When asked him what if few people would…
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Couple of movies this weekend
Couple of movies this weekend kept me busy. One was Lesa Lesa, Priyadarshan‘s re-make of malyalam movie Summer in Bethlehem. The original Malayalam version had Mohanlal (played by Madhavan in Tamil) and Suresh Gopi (Shaam in Tamil). It is a perfect example of a movie with a good storyline but damaged by bad characterisation and…
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This morning was as fresh
This morning was as fresh as Alai Payuthey Madhavan‘s leap to the sky. Watched Pachai Niramey for the nth time in Sun TV. nth time = number of days from the release of Alai Payuthey * 2. Arguably the best picturised song of AR Rahman and one of the best song of ARR and Mani…
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Truely obnoxious but true. This
Truely obnoxious but true. This survey was ordered by Paramount Home Entertainment to coincide with the video release of Changing Lanes, which stars Ben Affleck as a worker who marries his boss’s daughter to get on, says that many employees are prepared to cheat, lie and stab work-mates in the back to get on in…