Tuesday, January 19, 2010

News this week: SmackD style

SHOWIN' THEM HOW ITS DONE

Stand-in skipper Viru Sehwag fired the first salvo and called Bangladesh an 'ordinary' Test team. The Bangladesh captain however denied this. Sehwag went one step ahead and to prove his point, the Indian batsmen demonstrated how ordinary batting is done. After this Bangladesh captain proved Sehwag right by exactly matching India's first innings score. The Bangladesh team has now decided to sledge him and call him VIRUS (Viru Sehwag).

CHINA LOOKS TO GOOGLE FOR LOW-COST JAILS

Google has threatened to log out of China. Apparently China has been trying to hack Google Servers and try and access Gmail accounts. But its only a rumor that they wanted to snoop on people's inboxes. The real motive being that they had heard that Google has the highest inbox storage space. Since the Chinese want to get into low-cost jails they wanted use this 'free' inbox space.



OBAMA'S BIGGEST ACCOMPLISHMENT

Obama is in the news again. He is being flooded with people congratulating him for sending his first tweet. He plans to have a gala dinner at the White House to celebrate this great historic moment. That's the only accomplishment he has had since being elected President. Catching the gatecrashers at the last party came a close second.



McKINLEY TO FORAY INTO POLITICAL CONSULTING

Little known consulting firm McKinley has decided to foray into the lucrative Political consulting domain. Till now this space was dominated by small players. They would advise political parties on which states to enter, what constituencies to fight for, whom to align with given the synergies in the systems and processes, optimizing the ratio of different castes in the election ticket list, whom to kidnap using game theory, using demand curve how to horse-trade etc. To build their expertise they have been teaching poaching and arm-twisting to their employees. Some of these employees have been asked to go to B-Schools to practice and fine-tune this art.



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