The Title of the post today must have stupefied my readers. What has Amazon to do with Aligarh, and who is Hamida and how does she figure in the scheme of things featuring Amazon and Aligarh?; a few such questions would have arisen in their mind for sure. My reaction was no different either whenContinue reading “Hamida: The Amazon of Aligarh”
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Google : The World’s Search Engine : Turns 25
25 Years Or Eternity It is difficult to believe that Google has turned 25. It seems it has been around for an eternity, such has been the influence of Google on our daily lives. Much beyond its ‘ search ‘ functionality, Google has not only revolutionised ‘information seeking’, but has touched so many aspects ofContinue reading “Google : The World’s Search Engine : Turns 25”
Sundar’s Pitch & The Layoff Twitch
Shockwaves ‘ I am sorry…’ were the words of Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and Alphabet, in an e-mail to the employees on announcing a mammoth 12000 job cuts. The action, which Sundar Pichai defended as an act of decisiveness borne out of emergent necessities, sent shockwaves across Google and outside. However this is notContinue reading “Sundar’s Pitch & The Layoff Twitch”
A Season of Layoffs
The past few months have witnessed several reports of employee layoffs in India and beyond. During the pandemic people suffered not only with the disease but its devastating aftermath on the economy leading to a severe stress on employment. There were major layoffs and job losses and an unprecedented situation prevailed, never seen by the existingContinue reading “A Season of Layoffs“
‘Not Alone ‘ : The Google Doodle Winner
“ I care for myself by ….”, was the theme of the Doodle for Google contest conducted by Google this year for Grade 12 students in the USA. Sophie Araque-Liu from the Martin County High School, Florida won the contest and alongwith it a $30k scholarship for her education and a $50k technical package for her School to beContinue reading “‘Not Alone ‘ : The Google Doodle Winner”