WOCKHARDT’S WOES - ‘MTM, derivative los...
Habil Khorakiwala, chair- man of Wockhardt Ltd, has written to senior employees say-ing that the drug maker plans to divest stakes in units that are not central to its main business to ove...read more...
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W hen I first joined Twitter,I felt like I was in a noisybar where everyone was shouting and nobody was listening. Soon, I began to decode itsmany mysteries: how to find a flockof fo...read more...
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ROCK GODS - BEATLES, AC/DC MAY HAVE TO ...
What do the Beatles and AC/DC have in common? Neither band sells songs on Apple’s iTunes, yet both are getting into video games. No, rock gods haven’t given up getting high and scoring in fav...
Rock Band has sold 4 million copies, earning $600 million in revenues. And people can’t solely listen to music through the games, so it’s hard to see how it will cannibalize CD sales. Piracy is also less of an issue with video games. It’s a lot harder to download an entire illegal game than it is to rip and burn a couple of songs.....read more...
Mustang memories
T ······················ he incident could have been in the movie American Graf- fiti. It was 1969, and Jim Coash went cruising in Kalamazoo,Michigan, with his friend Phil Fletcher, prou...
The car wasn’t named after a horse, but the army’s P-51 fighter plane of World War II. Ironically, there was little about the Mustang that was special mechanically. It was basically a stylish body—with a long hood and short rear deck—fitted on to the mechanical underpinnings of the boring Ford Falcon. In late 1964, the head of Ford’s market research department, Seymour Marshak, thus described the process to the Detroit Free Press: “You can take a girl, put her hair in a bun, add horn-rimmed glasses and lowheeled shoes, flatten out her chest and her behind, and you’ve got a school librarian. Take the same girl in upswept hair, contact lenses, spike heels, fill out her figure top and bottom—and you’ve got a sexpot! We did much the same thing with a car.” Marshak, it seems safe to say, would have chosen a different analogy today. ......read more...
