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  • Donald Trump, Mukesh & Nita Ambani, Kalpesh Mehta & Pankaj Bansal: What’s the connection?

    Donald Trump, Mukesh & Nita Ambani, Kalpesh Mehta & Pankaj Bansal: What’s the connection?

    MUMBAI: When the incoming president of the US invites you, you definitely have to go. The pre-swearing in inaugural festivities thrown by the to-be -President  Trump at an intimate gathering of  friends and family at Trump National Sterling in Virginia saw a handful  of Indians mark their presence. But those who really want to make a splash of it are two Indian real estate developers who are the Republican leader’s Indian partners in Trump Towers. 
     

    Mr & Mrs Trump The fireworks celebration

    We are referring to Tribeca Developers founder Kalpesh Mehta and M3M Developers managing director Pankaj Bansal who were seen hobnobbing with Trump and sharing a glass of bubbly with him.  Both Mehta and Bansal are key partners in the development of Trump Towers in India, reflecting the strong ties between Indian business leaders and the Trump Organisation. Kalpesh Mehta, the licensed Indian partner for Trump Towers, has been instrumental in bringing the Trump brand to India. They were also seen cracking a few jokes with India’s richest couple – Mukesh and Nita Ambani.  Mukeshbhai and Nitabhabi, apparently, took an overnighter on their private jet for a spin to Washington DC.

    Global leaders, including Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos and other prominent business figures, were also in attendance.

    A nearly 20 minute firework display was watched by Trump and his wife Melania and his extended family from the balcony of his club.

    Trump’s alleged excesses have already got critics carping  about his proximity to several American billionaire friends of his who are getting crucial posts and others (one of them read crypto currency industry)  who are handing out $250 million to  the inauguration committee for spending on what is being called the most expensive inauguration  (read party) of a president in history. Other presidents have reportedly spent less than $50  million (Obama) on their inauguration spending prior to Trump who spent a massive $107 million following  his 2017 election victory.

     

    With the Trump-baiters getting their knives out even before he has got into the White House, we wonder what they will come up with after he does. We can only wait and watch.  

  • Q1-2016: Verizon reports growth in video subscribers, Fios revenue up 5 per cent

    Q1-2016: Verizon reports growth in video subscribers, Fios revenue up 5 per cent

    BENGALURU: Verizon Communications Inc., (Verizon) added 98,000 net new Fios internet connections and 36,000 net new Fios video connections in the first-quarter of 2016 (quarter ended 31 March 2016, Q1-2016, current quarter) as compared the 133,000 net new and 90,000 net new respective adds duringQ1-2015. Year-on-year (YoY), video subscribers grew 2.2 per cent to 5.863 million in Q1-2016 as compared to 5.739 million in Q4-2015.

    Fios digital voice connections in the current quarter increased to 4.800 million as compared to 4.661 million in Q1-2015. Total Fios digital connections increased in Q1-2016 to 17.795 million as compared to 17.194 million in the corresponding year ago quarter.

    Verizon’s operations are divided into four business units: wireless services, residential and small business services, enterprise services, and partner programs. Consumer retail, small businesses, mass markets, global enterprise, global wholesale and other are a part of wireline services. Under consumer retail, residential services are a part of wireline services under the brand Fios.

    Total Fios revenues grew 5.0 percent YoY to $3,521 million, compared to $3,352 million in Q1-2015., including consumer Fios revenue growth of 4.7 percent. In Q1-2016, consumer revenues were $4,022 million, an increase of 0.8 percent compared with $3,992 million in Q1-2015.

    Wireline segment operating income was $589 million (6.3 percent margin) for Q1-2016 as compared to $405 million (4.3 per cent margin). In Q1-2016, wireline generated $2,177 million (23.4 per cent margin) in EBITDA, a YoY increase of 1.2 percent over $2,151 million (22.7 per cent margin) in Q1-2015.

    The company says that by the end of first-quarter 2016, about 78 per cent of consumer Fios internet customers subscribed to data speeds of 50 megabits per second or higher. Customer demand remained strong for Custom TV, which represented about 38 per cent of Fios video sales in the quarter.                

    Verizon informs that during the first quarter, Verizon Enterprise Solutions entered into new agreements with or began servicing a number of clients, including 1-800-Flowers, the Commonwealth of Virginia, Dana Holding Corporation, the Florida Sheriffs Association, Promeditec, PSE&G, South Australia Health & Medical Research Institute, and Wyndham Worldwide.

    In the wireline segment, Fios fiber-optic-based services remain the driver of revenue growth and now represent about 81 percent of consumer revenues.

    Verizon consolidated numbers

    Verizon’s total operating revenues in Q1-2016 were $32,171 million, a 0.6 percent YoY increase compared with $31,884 million in Q1-2015. Excluding AOL, which was not part of Verizon a year ago, total operating revenues declined 1.5 percent. AOL had its highest first-quarter revenues at $669 million in the last five years says Verizon      

    The company says that new revenue streams from IoT (Internet of Things) are growing, with revenues of approximately $195 million in Q1-2016, a year-over-year increase of about 25 percent.     

    Verizon’s operating income in Q1-2016 at $7,942 million (24.7 per cent margin) was 0.2 per cent lower YoY as compared to $7,960million (24.9 percent margin). Net Income attributable to Verizon in Q1-2016 totalled $4,310 million (13.4 per cent margin), which was 2.1 per cent more than $4,219 million (13.2 per cent margin) in the corresponding quarter of the previous year.

    Company speak

    “Verizon’s strong first-quarter results demonstrate our capacity to compete effectively, while executing on our plan of continued network leadership and seeding new growth markets in mobile video and the Internet of Things,” said Verizon chairman and CEO Lowell McAdam.

  • Q1-2016: Verizon reports growth in video subscribers, Fios revenue up 5 per cent

    Q1-2016: Verizon reports growth in video subscribers, Fios revenue up 5 per cent

    BENGALURU: Verizon Communications Inc., (Verizon) added 98,000 net new Fios internet connections and 36,000 net new Fios video connections in the first-quarter of 2016 (quarter ended 31 March 2016, Q1-2016, current quarter) as compared the 133,000 net new and 90,000 net new respective adds duringQ1-2015. Year-on-year (YoY), video subscribers grew 2.2 per cent to 5.863 million in Q1-2016 as compared to 5.739 million in Q4-2015.

    Fios digital voice connections in the current quarter increased to 4.800 million as compared to 4.661 million in Q1-2015. Total Fios digital connections increased in Q1-2016 to 17.795 million as compared to 17.194 million in the corresponding year ago quarter.

    Verizon’s operations are divided into four business units: wireless services, residential and small business services, enterprise services, and partner programs. Consumer retail, small businesses, mass markets, global enterprise, global wholesale and other are a part of wireline services. Under consumer retail, residential services are a part of wireline services under the brand Fios.

    Total Fios revenues grew 5.0 percent YoY to $3,521 million, compared to $3,352 million in Q1-2015., including consumer Fios revenue growth of 4.7 percent. In Q1-2016, consumer revenues were $4,022 million, an increase of 0.8 percent compared with $3,992 million in Q1-2015.

    Wireline segment operating income was $589 million (6.3 percent margin) for Q1-2016 as compared to $405 million (4.3 per cent margin). In Q1-2016, wireline generated $2,177 million (23.4 per cent margin) in EBITDA, a YoY increase of 1.2 percent over $2,151 million (22.7 per cent margin) in Q1-2015.

    The company says that by the end of first-quarter 2016, about 78 per cent of consumer Fios internet customers subscribed to data speeds of 50 megabits per second or higher. Customer demand remained strong for Custom TV, which represented about 38 per cent of Fios video sales in the quarter.                

    Verizon informs that during the first quarter, Verizon Enterprise Solutions entered into new agreements with or began servicing a number of clients, including 1-800-Flowers, the Commonwealth of Virginia, Dana Holding Corporation, the Florida Sheriffs Association, Promeditec, PSE&G, South Australia Health & Medical Research Institute, and Wyndham Worldwide.

    In the wireline segment, Fios fiber-optic-based services remain the driver of revenue growth and now represent about 81 percent of consumer revenues.

    Verizon consolidated numbers

    Verizon’s total operating revenues in Q1-2016 were $32,171 million, a 0.6 percent YoY increase compared with $31,884 million in Q1-2015. Excluding AOL, which was not part of Verizon a year ago, total operating revenues declined 1.5 percent. AOL had its highest first-quarter revenues at $669 million in the last five years says Verizon      

    The company says that new revenue streams from IoT (Internet of Things) are growing, with revenues of approximately $195 million in Q1-2016, a year-over-year increase of about 25 percent.     

    Verizon’s operating income in Q1-2016 at $7,942 million (24.7 per cent margin) was 0.2 per cent lower YoY as compared to $7,960million (24.9 percent margin). Net Income attributable to Verizon in Q1-2016 totalled $4,310 million (13.4 per cent margin), which was 2.1 per cent more than $4,219 million (13.2 per cent margin) in the corresponding quarter of the previous year.

    Company speak

    “Verizon’s strong first-quarter results demonstrate our capacity to compete effectively, while executing on our plan of continued network leadership and seeding new growth markets in mobile video and the Internet of Things,” said Verizon chairman and CEO Lowell McAdam.

  • Zee Cafe launches America’s suspense thriller show Criminal Minds

    Zee Cafe launches America’s suspense thriller show Criminal Minds

    MUMBAI:  America’s suspense-thriller show Criminal Minds is all set to get you to #ThinkLikeACriminalstarting on 14 October at 10pm on Zee Cafe.

     

    Led by special agent Aaron “Hotch” Hotchner, each member of the BAU (Behavioral Analysis Unit) brings in their– unique art of profiling to track – the predators’ motivations and identify their emotional triggers in –an attempt to stop them.

     

    Based in Quantico, Virginia, the BAU is a subsection of the FBI and are called in by the local police departments to assist with crimes that are of an extremely violent nature where the perpetrator is unknown. 

     

    The highlight of the show is the fact that, viewers not only get to watch the profilers solve the crime, but also get to understand the criminal’s psychological intention while he commits it. The BAU uses evidence from the case and matches that information to historic precedents and psychological analyses as a means to solve the case.

     

    Get hooked to the series as you watch Derek Morgan, Dr. Spencer Reid, Jennifer Jareau and the team solve some unusual thrilling cases

  • Gogo signs capacity deal with SES

    Gogo signs capacity deal with SES

    MUMBAI: Gogo, a leader in in-flight connectivity, has signed major capacity deal with global satellite operator SES to deliver Gogo broadband services aboard commercial airliners.

    Coverage includes commercial aircraft flying over the North Atlantic Ocean Region, Europe and the United States.

    As part of the long-term deal covering more than six transponders of Ku-band capacity, three SES satellites will enable Gogo to expand its broadband offering in the sky to aircraft flying busy transatlantic routes.

    The SES-1 spacecraft will cover the continental US, while NSS-703 and its three powerful spot beams will reach across the North Atlantic and SES-4 will serve Europe.

    Gogo services aboard the NSS-703 satellite and will be transitioned seamlessly by mid 2014 to the new SES-6 satellite, slated for launch next year.

    Gogo has also contracted for teleport services delivered through three SES facilities in the U.S. and Europe. Two-way internet access will be delivered to Gogo customers via SES ground facilities in Woodbine, Maryland; Manassas, Virginia and Betzdorf, Luxembourg.

    “Gogo is entering the all-important international air travel market and expanding our North American offering with SES,” said Gogo President and CEO Michael Small. “A trio of SES satellites will enable Gogo to provide reliable and seamless satellite coverage for our current airline partners on their international fleets,” he added.

    Gogo is set to initiate its international internet services on Delta Air Lines in the first quarter of 2013.

  • Sissy Spacek lights up the screen with ‘Inside the Actors Studio’ only on Pix!!

    As a kid, Sissy Spacek climbed trees, rode horses, swam and played in the woods and gave no indication of one day growing up to be an Oscar-winning actress. Catch this tomboy turned Hollywood star this Sunday on Inside the Actors Studio on 10 September on Pix.

     

    Sissy decided on an acting career, having gotten interested in the profession through her cousin, Rip Torn. She relocated to New York, and through him, enrolled in the New York branch of the Actors Studio.

     

    She also tried modeling and singing. The petite Sissy finally broke into films, one of her first being Badlands. Her breakout role was in another film, Carrie, in which she played the humiliated Prom Queen who goes postal with her telekinesis.

     

    Read more to get a quick peek into another exciting episode of Inside the Actors Studio …

    – “Sissy” was a nickname that her brothers used to call her, short for “sister” and it stayed with her ever since

    – During her audition for Carrie (1976), she wore a dress that her mother forced her to wear to a party when she was in the seventh grade

     

    – She released a country LP titled Hangin’ Up My Heart on Atlantic Records in 1983

     

    – Decided to skip college after her older brother, Robbie, died at 18 years of age in 1967 from leukemia during her senior year in high school. She decided life was way too short to waste it in four years of college

    – Lives on 300 acre farmland named “Beau Val” near Charlottesville, Virginia

     

    Watch out for Sissy Spacek and her Tap dance demonstration only for James Lipton on Inside the Actors Studio this Sunday 10 September at 7 pm on Pix!!!