Reports: Disney close to Pixar deal | CNET News.com

Walt Disney Co.’s board of directors has given its approval to make an offer to buy Pixar Animation Studios, the independent studio responsible for hits such as “Toy Story” and “The Incredibles,” according to published reports.

After day-long meetings on Monday, the entertainment giant’s board gave Chief Executive Robert Iger the right to offer Pixar close to $7 billion in stock for an acquisition deal, the New York Times reported, citing “people briefed on the negotiations.” The Wall Street Journal offered a similar account, saying the purchase price would offer a “small premium” for Pixar’s shares. The company’s stock closed Monday at $58.27, giving the company a market value of $6.93 billion.

The deal must still be approved by the Pixar board, and several critical details that could prevent its completion remained outstanding, several reports warned. more…

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n Bangalore, you can get “spotless” hotel rooms, complete with “free wireless internet and 17-inch flat-panel TVs” for just $22 a night, reports Pete Engardio in BusinessWeek (1/23/06). That’s if you stay at the indiOne Hotel. Elsewhere in “booming Bangalore” hotel rooms “are so scarce that you’ll be lucky to pay less than $200 at a second-rate hotel.” But at indiOne, “an ambitious experiment by the Indian Hotels Co., a unit of Tata Group known mainly for its Taj luxury hotels … the goal is to re-invent the budget business hotel and prove it’s possible to make money selling quality rooms at reasonable rates.”more… Tags:Bangalore

Math Will Rock Your World

Math Will Rock Your World

Math Will Rock Your World A generation ago, quants turned finance upside down. Now they’re mapping out ad campaigns and building new businesses from mountains of personal data

Neal Goldman is a math entrepreneur. He works on Wall Street, where numbers rule. But he’s focusing his analytic tools on a different realm altogether: the world of words.

Goldman’s startup, Inform Technologies LLC, is a robotic librarian. Every day it combs through thousands of press articles and blog posts in English. It reads them and groups them with related pieces. Inform doesn’t do this work alphabetically or by keywords. It uses algorithms to analyze each article by its language and context. It then sends customized news feeds to its users, who also exist in Inform’s system as — you guessed it — math.more.. Tags :Math

Sydney Morning Herald:Stamp of approval for disposable camera – Breaking – Technology – smh.com.au

The posties of Australia could be in for a bit of a shock.

Rather than delivering conventional postcards, they could soon be dropping off high-tech digital postcards – ones with built-in flat screens that can play a slide show of photos taken by the sender.more…:

Business Week: How Apple Could Mess Up, Again

Apple is doing phenomenally well these days. It seems it’s doing a textbook job of maintaining huge market share in digital music players, long after most experts thought that share would erode. And it’s doing so with the same proprietary strategy that many thought would never stand up to an onslaught from the likes of Microsoft, Wal-Mart, and Yahoo!. Can Apple keep it up?more..

Is 37signals The New Google? by Mitch Wagner

Is 37signals the new Google?

What am I, a psychic? How the heck should I know?

I don’t know whether 37signals will grow from the plucky little startup it is today to become a multi-billion-dollar world-shaking powerhouse. But 37signals does have the zesty, refreshing, flavor of a little company called Google, ca. 1998. 37signals demonstrates its spunkiness in its application suite available on the company home page, and further described in this podcast interview with co-founder Jason Friedmore..

Steve Jobs Keynote by Guy Kawasaki

Lessons from Steve’s Keynote
I attended Steve’s keynote address at Macworld Expo San Francisco this morning, and I took a picture of most of the slides that he used. I couldn’t capture them all because of the special effects he was using.more…

Line56.com: ERP Underused and Difficult

ERP Underused and Difficult
European ERP experiences as reported by PMP Research highlight both challenges and opportunities for vendors; despite everything, ERP still foundationalERP

The Indian Economy India & America: Natural Allies?

India & America: Natural Allies?
January 6th, 2006 by Prashant Kothari

“What’s good for General Motors is good for America” said the the auto-makers’ executives during its heyday, in the 1960s. Not necessarily true — then, and now.

However, is it possible that what’s good for India is good for the US?

Charles Wheelan, in his Naked Economist column on Yahoo, thinks so and cites four reasons to back his claim, starting with the most obvious india,america

Next Big thing

What do you think the next big thing is? Is it Artificial Intelligence? Is it smarter Technology, Smaller Mobiles? Well I think it is McDonalds, KFC… opening up Fuel Stations all over the world next to their outlets. Why read here…

Soon you might just be eating your favourite chicken / burger and generating fuel for your car too. fuel,vegetable oil,biodiesel