Facebook: Is it really worth $100 billion?
NEW YORK In The Social Network, the Oscar-winning film about the rise of Facebook, Sean Parker, the company’s founding president, tells another investor: “A million dollars isn’t cool – you know what’s cool?” The scene cuts to Parker in a different meeting. “A billion dollars,” he says. By 2006, two years after those scenes were [...]
Russia launches military satellite
MOSCOW (IANS/RIA Novosti) Russia launched a satellite Thursday in a step towards expanding the cluster of country’s military satellites in the orbit. Russia‘s Space Forces launched a Soyuz-U carrier rocket with a Cosmos-series military satellite, according to SF spokesman Col. Alexey Zolotukhin. The rocket was launched from the Plesetsk space centre in northern Russia. “The [...]
Iran attack decision nears, Israeli elite locks down
JERUSALEM A private door opens from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office in central Jerusalem directly into a long, modestly furnished, half-panelled room decorated with modern paintings by Israeli artists and a copy of Israel’s 1948 declaration of independence. It contains little more than a long wooden table, brown leather chairs and a single old-fashioned [...]
Al-Qaeda militants killed
SANAA Government troops battling al-Qaida fighters in southern Yemen have made inroads into the militants’ strongholds, but the offensive on a strategic city has slowed because of concerns the extremists could launch a surprise counterattack, military officials said Thursday. Backed by heavy artillery and warplanes, Yemeni troops have advanced into Zinjibar, the capital of Abyan [...]
North America’s first Telugu meet to be held in Houston
WASINGTON (IANS) India‘s Telugu culture will be at grand display in the US during the first North American Telugu Association (NATA) convention to be organised in the Houston city of Texas state June 29-July 1, 2012. The cultural meet will be held in downtown Houston at George R. Brown Convention Centre, which is spread over [...]
Pakistan is a ‘black hole’ for US aid
WASHINGTON US lawmakers of both Democratic and Republican parties have slammed the Obama administration’s request for $2.4 billion for Pakistan, calling it a “black hole” where the US has “sunk” $24 billion over the last decade. “Pakistan is like a black hole for American aid,” Gary Ackerman, top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs panel [...]
US prepared for Osama with model having minutest detail
LONDON (IANS) No effort was spared by the US military before its Navy Seals raided Al-Qaeda’s former chief Osama bin Laden in Pakistan last May, shows a detailed scale model of his Abbottabad city-located compound. Every tree and bush was mapped out identical to those surrounding his home and even the rubbish bins were included, [...]
Sikhs in turbans can now serve Washington police
Washington(IANS) Sikh police officers in the American capital will be allowed to wear turbans, beards and other religious items while on the job. The new uniform policy announced by Washington DC police Chief Cathy Lanier Wednesday makes it the first major metropolitan police department in the US to permit Sikhs to maintain their articles of [...]