Which is India's most admired company ? The results of Fortune's 2014 survey released recently, reveals a surprising name at the top. It is ITC.
For those unfamiliar with Indian business, ITC is primarily a cigarette company. In the good old days, it stood for Imperial Tobacco Company. Today it runs its cigarette business quietly. It has diversified into a conglomerate - Hotels and Consumer...
Sunday, 24 August 2014
Friday, 22 August 2014
Windows 9 ?? Yaawwwn !
It's a sign of the times that a rumour that Microsoft is planning a preview of Windows 9 in end September is being met with a huge yawn. Remember when Windows itself came after DOS. And the launch of Windows 95 ? Each of them was a landmark event in the history of computing. Now, of course, technology has moved on and Microsoft has been left standing still. Who cares about Windows now anyway ?
Actually...
Sunday, 3 August 2014
The $1000 pill
How do you price a drug ? Its a question almost impossible to answer without vehement and justifiable criticism, whatever your answer may be. Nothing typifies this better than the absolute storm raging over Sovaldi.
Sovaldi is a new drug introduced as a cure for Hepatitis C, which was hitherto very difficult to cure. Almost a miracle drug with something like 90% success rate. In six...
Friday, 1 August 2014
My sympathies are entirely with Argentina this time
Thomas Greisa is an ass. Thomas who , you might ask. This specimen is a Judge of the Southern District Court of New York. Why should you bother about the "Southern District Court of New York", you might want to know. Unfortunately, the state of the world is that, we have to. For the USA is back to its old game - imposing its laws on the rest of the world.
The problem is Argentina. Remember...
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