Business

Vijay Narayanan on January 7th, 2009

While I was shocked at the goings-on at Satyam Computers as reported in the media over the past few weeks, today’s news that the founder and Chairman B. Ramalinga Raju has admitted to grossly inflating the books comes a thunderbolt. As a shareholder in Satyam Computers, I am appalled at the moral bankruptcy of this [...]

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Vijay Narayanan on November 25th, 2008

Cheap might mean inexpensive. It also means mean. I’m convinced it also means Airtel. Here is an ad that appeared in my Gmail Inbox a while ago. (Click on the image to enlarge it.) The ad is (presumably) run by Airtel, but the anchor text reads “Reliance User Call India”. Isn’t it outrageous to advertise one’s [...]

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Vijay Narayanan on November 21st, 2008

I have been dabbling with Facebook Ads for some time for a class project, and I thought about jotting down some of my experiences. Facebook Ads v/s Google AdWords The first question that arises whenever you thrown in a new product into a crowded field with established products is “How does it compare?” In this [...]

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Vijay Narayanan on November 20th, 2008

While I’m personally opposed to the US Government bailing out the Big Three automakers, I find one line of reasoning ridiculous. It runs something like this Should taxpayers in Alabama be required to bail out automakers whose plants are concentrated in Northern states like Michigan and Ohio? So when Louisiana, a Southern state, is hit [...]

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Vijay Narayanan on October 10th, 2008

Yesterday, a friend commented that the economic troubles that the United States is faced with is largely because of the deregulated market in which the Government has very little control. He then went on to claim that China’s economic model, an object of criticism over the past so many years, has proved to be superior [...]

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