Billionaire investor Chris Sacca’s long and thoughtful post on “What Twitter Can Be,” created a small tsunami of sorts in the tech world like this exchange between Sacca and Fred Wilson, a New York-based venture capitalist. Both Sacca and Wilson own quite a lot of Twitter stoks. And Sacca spoke to CNBC about his post and… Continue Reading
Facebook’s Sheryl Sanberg writes a touching, reflective and poignant post about the loss of her husband David Goldberg and learning to survive. She quotes a line from a Rabbi friend of hers “Let me not die while I am still alive,” which instantly resonated with me. If you have experiened the loss of a close family… Continue Reading
Bill Pohlad’s “Love & Mercy,” is a compassionate film about Brian Wilson, the gifted and creative co-founder of the Beach Boys. This California band defined American music in the 1960s, and were a huge source of inspiration and influence to many musicians in the US and around the world, including the Beatles. We caught up with Pohlad at this year’s San Francisco… Continue Reading
Cisco’s Padmashree Warrior, Chief Technology Officer is reportedly moving on according to a report on Re/code.Her last day at Cisco is reportedly July 25, 2015. Warrior joined Cisco after a long stint at Motorola. It is unclear where she is headed next. Re/code reports that Warrior recently interviewed for at least for one job. And then… Continue Reading
Marryam H. Reshii is a New Delhi-based food writer, who has her pulse on all things related to food in her city. She is the author of Celebrated Chefs of India, Eating out in India and 101 Popular restaurants. She is a Consulting Editor with the Times of India for their Times Food Guide. In this interview, which we… Continue Reading
Muir Woods National Monument is located a few miles north of San Francisco past the Golden Gate bridge. Named after John Muir, the famous naturalist, this place is home to old Redwood trees that are hundreds of years old. Some trees are about 800 years old. There are 6 trails of varying lengths and levels of… Continue Reading
Ross Ulbricht (31) was sentenced to a life in prison for for his role in creating and operating Silk Road, an underground marketplace. The sentencing comes without a possibility of a parole for Ulbricht. US District Judge Katherine Forrest “gave Ulbricht the most severe sentence possible, beyond what even the prosecution had explicitly requested. The minimum Ulbricht could have served… Continue Reading
Filmmaker Prashant Bhargava passed away on May 16, 2015. He was 42 years old. Bhargav was a young, talented filmmaker, who is deeply mourned by his fans, friends and family. Bhragava had a brilliant eye and ear for stories, details and colors. His films like “Patang,” and “Radhe Radhe,”were visually stunning. I had an opporuntunity to interview Bhargav… Continue Reading
“San Andreas” is a new disaster film starring Dwayne Johnson. I won’t even want to go into the storyline since it is so predicatable. Johnson’s personal life is in shambles and he is the middle of a divorce, when California is hit by a swarm of massive earthquakes. So, while the Golden State is falling apart… Continue Reading
Filmmaker Alex Winter talks about his new film “Deep Web: The Untold Story of Bitcoin And The Silk Road,” that premieres on EPIX on Sunday, May 31, 2015. The film looks at Ross Ulbricht, the founder of Silk Road, his arrest and the charges filed against him. The film also looks at drug war, fourth… Continue Reading
Google made quite a few announcments this morning at its annual Google I/O conference currently underway in San Francisco. Sundar Pichai delivered the keynote address that was punctuated with demos of new features and products the Mountain View-based company is rolling out. Google has 1 billion Android users, and that user base keeps growing every month… Continue Reading
Photos and videos. We have gigabytes of images stored across various devices and they remain largely unorganized. Google now has a solution – Google Photo that allows for free, unlimited storage of photos and videos for Android, IOS and desktop devices. It is available on Google Play and Apple store starting today. Google made the… Continue Reading
Robots are coming. You have probably heard about the coming of robots with increasing frequencey in the past few month and how they may steal our jobs and hearts. You probably watched the new film “Ex Machina” an easily accessible film that takes you into the world of humans and sentient robots. Now, meet a robot… Continue Reading
Mary Meeker’s Internet Trends for 2015 is here. She unveiled the report at the Code Conference this morning. Naturally, there is a lot of buzz, instant analysis and debates about where we are headed in this market. Meeker is a well-known Wall Street analyst, who came out west and joined the storied venture capitalist firm Kleiner… Continue Reading
Filmmaker Alex Winter’s new film “Deep Web:The Untold Story of Bitcoin And The Silk Road,” highlights the story of Ross Ulbricht the founder of Silk Road, the underground marketplace, his arrest, the charges brought against him, his trail, bitcoin, and the intersection of technology, privacy and law. A final veridct on Ulbricht’s case is expected from… Continue Reading
Imagine being connected to another human being in a different part of the world and you can hear, feel and see everything about them. You know their secrets and their history. Well, imagine no more. Michael Straczynski and the Wachowskis have created a new Netflix original series called “SENSE8” where 8 strangers around the world are connected to each other.… Continue Reading
Meet Madhur Jaffrey – an award-winning actress, cookbook author and the host of TV cooking shows that helped demystify Indian cooking. Born in British India, Jaffrey went to London to study acting and relocated to the USA in the late 1950s. She currently lives in New York with her family. When Jaffrey moved to England… Continue Reading
Post cards. Remember getting those colorful post cards from your family and friends when they visited a new place or city? As a kid I used to collect these post cards, and pester folks to send them to me. Sometimes, a Kindly neighbor would give me their old post cards that their “foreign” friends sent them. Somewhere… Continue Reading
Summer is here, which means a whole lot of new films are coming your way. And if you live in the San Francisco Bay area you are in for a treat with a clutch of film festivals ranging from San Francisco Green Film Festival (May 28-June 3, 2015), SF DocFest/SF IndieFest Festival (June 4-18, 2015) to the… Continue Reading
There is a fascinating exhibit at the San Jose Museum of Art that features 9 artists of Indian origin called “Postdate: Photography and Inherited Art in India,” This is the first time such an exhibit has been put together that looks at how modern Indian artists look back and interpret their inherited history in India.… Continue Reading
Indian actor Dhanush’s Tanglish song “Why This Kolaveri Di,” went viral in November 2011. It has over 90 million views on YouTube. This Tanglish (Tamil and English) song became quite the rage and spawned all sorts of remixed and new versions right from an R&B number to an Arabic version of the “Shorba Song.” There… Continue Reading
With a title like this “San Francisco is obsessed with food and that is an understatement,” how can you not read the article? This was not published in a local San Francisco bay area paper, but in the Washington Post (WaPo) and it brought back memories of a conversation I had with a chef in… Continue Reading
Here is our first look at Danny Boyle’s new film on “Steve Jobs.” Written by Aaron Sorkin, the film stars Micahel Fassbender, Seth Rogen, Kate Winslet, Jeff Daniels and others. Earlier this year Boyle and his crew spent a couple of months in various parts of San Francisco bay area shooting their film. The film is… Continue Reading
With a title like this “The 100 Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared,” your interest is piqued. Your interest is further kindled when you hear the opening lines of the film. Pardon me if the dialog is not verbatim, but it went something like this. “No one has meant to me… Continue Reading
Austrian Chocolate Burrito? Vietnames Apple Kebab? Like me, you probably have not heard of these dishes. You are probably thinking there is an error and it should really be Mexican burrito or Turkish kebabs. But, what happens when you introduce big data into the kitchen and let IBM’s Watson do all the data crunching, analysis,… Continue Reading
B.B. King, “The King of Blues,” passed away tonight in Las Vegas. He was 89 years old. He had been unwell for sometime and on May 1, 2015 King shared this on his Facebook page: “I am in home hospice care at my residence in Las Vegas. Thanks to all for your well wishes and… Continue Reading
There I was waiting for “Piku” to start. Instead, I was sitting through a series of Bollywood trailers. All of a sudden I heard a very exciting exchange between a group of women seated right behind me. “Every Friday there is a new movie.” “Such good movies too, nah?,” responded another. “Summer holiday right now… Continue Reading
Director Shira Piven’s new film “Welcome To Me,” made me laugh and also made me a bit sad. We caught up with her at the San Francisco International Film Festival, where her film was shown. In this interview we spoke to Piven about how she came to direct this film, Kristen Wiig and the… Continue Reading
The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE) is a non-profit organization founded in Silicon Valley over 22 years ago. The goal of the organization is to connect, mentor and educate entrepreneurs from the valley and around the world. The organization has local chapters located in various parts of the world. One of the central events of TiE is… Continue Reading
Unicorns. Until about 2 years ago if you mentioned ‘unicorn,” I suspect most people in Silicon Valley and elsewhere would have instantly thought of that mythical creature. But, that is not the case anymore. Ever since Aileen Lee wrote an article about “unicorns” and startups, we now instantly think of startups whose valuation is north of $1… Continue Reading
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