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Walt Disney enters Bollywood domain

Walt Disney has reportedly signed a deal with India’s Yashraj Film Studios. The deal binds the two to make atleast one animated movie per year in which Bollywood actors would lend their voices to the feature. The deal signifies the impact Bollywood has on the entertainment industry worldwide and open great prospects for expansion and growth for both.

In another move, Indian film maker Sanjay-Leela Bhansali is producing India’s first Hollywood backed production this year in collaboration with Sony Pictures. UTV Motion Pictures also entered into strategic relationships with several international studios including 20th Century Fox, Walt Disney and Will Smith’s Overbrook.

Bollywood has become serious business!

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Lewis Hamilton rocks F1 world!!

22 year old Brit rocks F1 world in his debut year — six podium positions in all of six races of 2007 so far, wins the Grand Prix in the sixth one, and leads the 2007 F1 Drivers’ Championship — achieving something never achieved before!

Hamilton has set four Formula One records in quick succession. With his first start at the 2007 Australian Grand Prix, he became the first black driver to compete in Formula One. At the 2007 Bahrain Grand Prix, he became the first F1 driver to finish in the top three in his first three races. After he finished second at the 2007 Spanish Grand Prix, he became the youngest driver ever to lead the drivers’ championship. Hamilton gained his first victory at the 2007 Canadian Grand Prix and became the first black person to win a Formula One race.

“Increasingly those in the know in F1 are talking about Hamilton as potentially one of the greatest drivers in history.”

Sky’s the limit for Hamilton

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Google: Foreign workers are key to our success

Google VP joins Bill Gates and urges Washington to fix appalling US immigration system.

Google: Foreign workers are key to our success

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Innovation Science

Wireless energy promise powers up

MIT Researchers have powered a light bulb remotely. The successful experiment was to lit a 60-watt light bulb from a power source two meters away, with no physical connection between the power source and the light bulb. Named: WiTricity, or wireless electricity. The MIT work improves upon previous knowledge and does not require an uninterrupted line of sight.

Awesome and fascinating 🙂

Wireless energy promise powers up

Related post: Wireless electricity in near future?

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YCombinator Startup Notes

Some serious, useful and witty advise, pointers, questions and do’s and dont’s about start-ups from the experienced elite of the Web 2.0 startups’ world. At Scribd.

On a side note, Scribd received a $3.5 million funding from investors, adding to the ever growing list of successful Web2.0 startups.

YCombinator Startup School Notes 2007

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Search Better than Google?

According to the story in BrisbaneTimes a suburban Melbourne start-up that claims to be developing a search engine that improves on Google’s search engine, has captured the attention of the search behemoth.

“MyLiveSearch, which plans to go live as a public beta in a few weeks, is the brainchild of self-taught software developer Rob Gabriel.”

“A Google business development representative has met with the MyLiveSearch team at least twice – once when the technology was at a very early stage, and again last week after Next made inquiries about Google’s interest in the project.”

Better than Google? Creator thinks so

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“Tabletop” computers born or Milan re-born

Unlike conventional computers, there is no keyboard or mouse. More than one person may use the system, simultaneously, with the same input/output device! Microsoft’s new tabletop computers feel like a success! 🙂 See the photos. From a different perspective, it also marks the divergence of a software giant into newer cool things, akin to Apple and iPod/iPhone.

Microsoft hopes ‘Milan’ table PC has magic touch

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Robot for India’s moon mission

“When India sends its proposed moon mission in 2011, it will have a unique robot developed indigenously by student-engineers and their professors at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) at Kanpur.” Source: /.

Robot for India’s moon mission

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Gandhi on Jews & Middle-East

“It is of utmost importance to remember the time of this writing. It is 1938, Hitler is ruling Germany, and the clouds of a terrible conflict have begun to form. Gandhi’s article shows his incredible sense of right and wrong, his blind faith in his methodology, and his profound vision of things to come.” Via reddit.

Gandhi on Jews & Middle-East

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Microsoft Vs Apple

Here’s an interesting coincidence between the share price trend of Microsoft in the 4 years preceding the dot com bust in 2000 and the past 4 years’ share price of Apple. Both increased a little above 900% in the respective periods (see figures below). In the four years following the bust, Microsoft’s share price fell more than 50% (see second figure). What’s going to happen to Apple (and the entire economy)? It is by no means a conclusive comparison as there are a multitude of factors that have resulted in the present state of market and that will define the course of Apple in future. For now, Apple is going strong with its sales and looking hopeful with its upcoming products. An interesting comparison though.

Microsoft vs Apple pre-2000 bust:

MSFT vs AAPL pre 2000

Microsoft post-2000 bust:

MSFT post 2000