Talk of Many Things

There's so much news reported these days about investments being made in western companies, especially financial institutions, by sovereign funds from China, Singapore and the Middle East. Recent examples include…

To use a well-worn cliche, the Internet has changed everything. Especially shopping. Nowadays, whenever you set out to buy something, there're so many choices, there's so much information available and…

I recently received a circular to the following effect from my bank in the UK. While the main message of the circular was that the bank was now adding a…

Here's one on cultural differences, a topic I'd promised to cover while launching Talk of Many Things (read the introductory post here) but one to which I haven't done much…

In a previous blog post, I had described a few Web 2.0 financial applications that were already operational at the time. I recently attended the re-launch party of TechCrunchUK in…

Bloggers come across several interesting applications and widgets that can be embedded into their own posts. Examples include Google Adsense, JobCoin, Feedjit, and so on. You can learn more about…

For a long time, there was only one Indian company (Indian Oil Corporation) in the Fortune GLOBAL 500 list of the world's 500 largest corporations. In this year's list, published…

My sister (S Roopa, www.sroopa.com) was in town recently. Herself being a rock-buff, I took her to the London Rock Music Tour. The last time I'd taken on this tour…

During the last couple of years, I've had the experience of buying and setting up several gadgets like the HP PSC-2410 All-in-One Multifunction Device (Printer, Scanner, Copier and Fax), Nokia…

Are you one of those who'd upgraded to broadband so that you could enjoy "Formula One" Internet speeds? According to a recent Financial Times article "In the Doghouse", many such…