Menlo Park: In Silicon Valley, where sudden wealth is hardly something new and CEOs favour hoodies over bespoke blazers, Facebook's IPO on Friday didn't bring everyday life to a halt. Employees weren't popping champagne corks at company headquarters, at least not where anyone outside could see them. And locals had plenty to do - from finding a job to locating the next Facebook. The company's sprawling headquarters along the southern...
12:52 PM, May 19, 2012
Palo Alto: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and other executives addressed about 200 prospective investors at a hotel luncheon in Silicon Valley. Yesterday's event was the last of the bigger road show events that Facebook Inc. is holding ahead of its initial public offering of stock, which is expected late next week. The luncheon was held at the Crown Plaza Hotel in Palo Alto, California. Zuckerberg arrived in a caravan of...
06:09 PM, May 12, 2012
New Delhi: Literary icon Saadat Hasan Manto finds few takers among young readers because the stories are dark, disturbing and reflect a time they cannot relate to. But for the older generation of Indians, he still remains one of the most powerful writers of the 20th century. The writer, who died at the age of 43 in Lahore while struggling to keep the literature of truth alive, was born on...
05:56 PM, May 11, 2012
Imran Khan speaks on how he deals with the 'youth icon' tag and more. ...
07:13 PM, May 01, 2012
New Delhi: Acer has released the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update for its Iconia A500 and A501 tablet. If you are an Acer Iconia A500 or Iconia A501 user, you can check for the availability of the update by tapping Menu > Settings > About tablet and then tap 'Check for update' to get Android 4.0.3. Acer has also released an application to make the process of upgrade easier...
01:05 PM, Apr 30, 2012
San Francisco: Social-networking site Facebook is halting the sale of its shares on secondary markets effective next week as the company prepares to hold its initial public offering in May, according to a person familiar with the matter. Facebook recently asked firms that arrange trading of its privately held shares to stop doing so, a move intended to reduce churn in its valuation that could complicate matters as it sets...
10:54 AM, Mar 29, 2012
Mumbai: Hollywood Producer Jon Landau, who is all set to re-release 'Titanic' in 3D next month, feels his three-dimensional experience of 'Avatar' helped a lot in re-engineering the iconic love story for a new audience. "'Avatar' did help us in some way. Your next project always relies on the experience of the previous one. You try and take what you learnt in the past," Jon told reporters here after the...
02:05 PM, Mar 23, 2012
As a child, everyone has a favourite boast about their daddy. But few would have a story to match Prof Jayant Baliga's. "The first TV broadcast into a home in India occurred in my house." In true tradition of a man of science this isnt an empty boast. It really did happen. "My father, BV Baliga, was chief engineer of All India Radio after Independence. There was an exhibition in...
10:57 AM, Feb 27, 2012
San Francisco: Josh Buckley, chief executive of an online gaming start-up, is looking forward to next month's Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, particularly for the parties and the accompanying schmoozing with industry A-listers. There's one problem: Buckley, who will turn 20 this week on February 22, may be turned away from many of the parties because he is not old enough to drink. His fake ID was recently confiscated,...
02:05 PM, Feb 21, 2012
Tokyo: Japanese electronics maker Panasonic Corp will scale back domestic semiconductor output by the end of March 2012 and cut about 1,000 jobs, reflecting its recent move to reduce TV panel production, the Nikkei business daily said on Sunday. All of the firm's five domestic chip-manufacturing facilities, including the state-of-the-art Uozu plant in Toyama prefecture, will cut output, the report said. The company is likely to outsource more semiconductors from...
08:03 AM, Oct 23, 2011
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At a time when Mayawati's Dalit memorials have sparked off a raging debate, it might be instructive to consider what the original Dalit icon, Dr ...
12:20 AM, Oct 21, 2011
New Delhi: The sepia posters of Rockstar Ranbir Kapoor are trying hard to convince the movie buffs that Ranbir is the Indian version of western rock icons. Remember the songs and stage ambience of The final countdown or Sun of a gun which went on to establish the performers associated with these songs as someone more than the celebrities. The songs and aura surrounding the artists created icons out of...
07:30 PM, Oct 09, 2011
San Francisco: Silicon Valley legend Steve Jobs relinquished the reins at Apple Inc to right-hand man Tim Cook on Wednesday, after 14 years in command at a company he brought back from the brink and turned into the world's largest technology corporation. Jobs, who fought and survived a rare form of pancreatic cancer and revolutionized the technology arena with the iPhone in 2007, is deemed the heart and soul of...
07:10 AM, Aug 25, 2011
London: Action superstar Jean-claude Van Damme says he loves his tag as a gay icon and hails his homosexual fans for having a good "taste". The 50-year-old has no problem being admired by the gay community, but insists they like him because of his personality, not his looks, reported Contactmusic. "Most gay people are very tasty people. They like beautiful stuff in their lives. If they like me, it means...
05:42 PM, Aug 16, 2011
Lahore: Pakistan's young Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar might have caught New Delhi's imagination, but her depiction in the Indian media as a 'fashion icon' seemed to have irked her. Pakistan's youngest and first woman foreign minister, who returned to Pakistan on Thursday after a three-day visit to New Delhi, reacted angrily to questions pertaining to her coverage in leading Indian dailies. "You see paparazzi are every where. Besides, you...
08:10 AM, Jul 29, 2011
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