Ten Ways to Use LinkedIn | Guy Kawasaki

Web Strategy is the way forward and here are some thoughts from management guru Guy Kawasaki.

http://blog.linkedin.com/blog/2007/07/ten-ways-to-use.html

I really like LinkedIn as a tool for professional networking.

Lehman Brothers put itself up for sale- Wall Street

The day has arrived. After so much talk about mounting losses in billions, Lehman Brothers could not help much in stopping eroding stock price which closed 45% down to $3.97. Analyst has recently downgraded the stock value seeing $7 bn losses.

I had previously mentioned in my blog about possible sale of Lehman Brothers , though people close to bank still denied the fact.

As per CNN, The No. 4 U.S. investment bank is scouring Wall Street for a financial lifeline as its losses soared to almost $7 billion in the last two quarters alone, primarily because of wrong-way bets on mortgage securities and other risky investments. Its shares nose-dived a staggering 42 percent Thursday to close at $4.22. That's down more than 94 percent from their 52-week high of $67.73.
Bank of America Corp., Japan's Nomura Securities, France's BNP Paribas, Deutsche Bank AG and Britain's Barclay's PLC have been mentioned this week as potential buyers.

I think HSBC too will take a chance to bid for it.

However as per The Wall Street Journal, citing sources familiar with the matter, reported Thursday that Lehman is actively shopping itself and said that suitors included Bank of America (BAC, Fortune 500) and British bank Barclays (BCS).

Company officials are trying to get a deal wrapped up and announced by Sunday night, people close to the deal tell CNBC.- CNBC

Bank of America is name which is looking positive as front runner.

Rock On- Rocks!!!!

After along time, saw this well directed movie- Rock On!!
Really liked the direction which has been well coupled with lovely music.
Farhan Akhtar- Good job man!!

Review- Dont want to spoil your fun- Go and watch yourself.... Worth a watch

Citibank-- Bank which always sleeps

Citi- Never sleeps!! That is what they claim....
But if you happen to go their branch, things are found to be opposite.
It took Citibank,Pune- 2 hours to make my DD. I went early to avoid rush and was there at 10.30am sharp, submitted my form.
Upfront I was told, it wil take 1 hour to make it. Man I was surprised, even our sarkari banks like SBI or BOB issue DD within 15 minutes. Anyways, thought maybe that the cost i have to pay as a customer of large'global' bank.
Only to realise that even after 1.5hrs of waiting, they were not aware of status when asked. Front desk lady told me that it is getting done( as if someone is getting ready for marriage).
Finally when I told them in clear sharp words, they called up someone to get the DD, after waiting for another 30mins, DD came down.
What a pathetic bank man... had it not been my corporate account, I would have closed my account then and there.

Inflation at 12.42% in Sep 2008

I see inflation softening... and I think it should be back to around 5-6% by march 2009 .... this is based on macro economic factors...

Bengal revolution for Tata and Nano

And it has started officially. Politics in communist state could have their say in past decade but today we Indians know how to work in democracy. We are not supporters of communist which speaks Chinese thoughts on soil of India. We want growth and we want progress, jobs, money..

Post announcement by tatas about their decision to move from Singur, there are Educated people who have taken to street for real protest againt policy of some selfish political parties of stopping growth in the state. IT proff working in Kolkatta organised rally against the unfortunate happenings in the state against Tata. If Tata moves opt it will hit bengal in bigway of every company thinking about their investment plans in the state.

http://www.telegraphindia.com/1080904/jsp/calcutta/story_9784546.jsp

Question comes- What happens to poor farmers. First they have already been made scapegoat by political parties and what if their land is also taken away for industries. I think its time that every state sets up a panel to review land possesion for such projects. This will ensure a smooth transition and growth of both farmers and industries.

http://www.telegraphindia.com/1080904/jsp/calcutta/story_9784546.jsp

Tata pulls out of Bengal - Whats next for Nano project ???

Tata Nano which was helping in painting enhanced brand image of India, has been sabotaged by some crooked bunch of political ideas, egos and bad role of govt in settling Singur row.

Does anyone know whether farmers really want land back, I don't feel so. Infact farmers will benefit through industrial growth.

Surprisingly this is happening against Tatas. Tatas is one industrial house which is respected for their fair policies and good corporate governance.

This is really going to put big black spot on booming Indian picture as automobile manufacturing hub. What which could have been solved by across the table conversation has nothing but put more trouble to farmers which are mere spectators being sandwitched in yet another Indian politic saga.

By the way, it was observed that very politicians which oppose tata plants came filled in Tata sumo, tata indica cars ..... What an irony ::)

Curtains up on Google Chrome

Finally, Google chrome is here. I have already installed Chrome and this post is first one through Chrome on my blog. I think UI is little different , but then I dont think much can be done on layout. Yes, there are other special features like tab switch, website search, etc.
Chrome is yet another competition to giant Microsoft. I think IE8.0 will keep doing well, but enterprise opting for open source components might look forward to deploy Chrome.
So, eventually it will be Chrom v/s Firefox to start off with