Yahoo CEO: Shake-up needs more time, not Microsoft

SAN FRANCISCO — Yahoo Inc. Chief Executive Carol Bartz has a message for investors hoping for a quick fix at the slumping Internet company or for an online search partnership with Microsoft Corp. — don't expect either to happen any time soon. The no-nonsense executive hired by Yahoo five months ago got her latest points across Wednesday during an appearance at an investor conference hosted in New York by Bank of America Corp.'s Merrill Lynch.

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OCC Kolkata organized its first meet of entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs wannabes. Overall 7 people attended including the convener Mitesh (nice job by a fresh engg. grad!). The meet was fun, informative and to some extent reliving the difficulties as an entrepreneur in Kolkata and discussing some ways to overcome it.

Are you an entrepreneur in Kolkata or want to be one? If so then you should consider coming to the next meet. Join the google group and make yourself heard.

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Many like Darren Rowse suggest that you should create a stack of ideas to blog about and then use them in lean periods to tide you over.

Now Darren is an amazing blogger. He regularly talks informatively about a subject which I could probably summarize in 5 minutes flat - about blogging. He does a good job out of it and has many dedicated followers.

I do not have his predisposition. Firstly I am not a professional blogger like him. In other words I do not blog for living even though it makes me a decent income. I blog only when I have something to blog about. I blog when I have some new ideas or technologies or code tips to share. If I don't have something interesting to share, I don't. I don't spend time making an uninteresting topic interesting. Full article (538 words) »

Ok to be precise IIT Kharagpur was ranked as the No. 1 Government engineering college in India by Outlook India, a respected news magazine which sells over 11 million copies annually. In India leading government colleges like IIT's are the leading engineering colleges period. Pretty much anyone tries to get first into a government engineering college. If they fail and if their parents have good bank balance then they try for private engineering colleges, no offence intended. To get an understanding of the differences between government and private colleges in India let's take the case of IIIT (not to be confused with IIT) Hydrabad. It was mistakenly identified as government engineering college and ranked 17th. However when it was correctly identified as a private engineering college its rank went up to No. 2 in list of private colleges. So effectively IIT Kharagpur tops the list of engineering colleges in India.

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Waterlogged streets and flooded homes everywhere in Kolkata thanks to inept Kolkata Municipal Corporation and heavy rains last few days. Personally we haven't suffered.

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The EGS team announced the first candidate release of EGS 1.0. Enterprise Groupware System which provides businesses with an internal Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) accounting solution. It is under GPL license.

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