Last year I spent some money on advertisement on online platforms. 80% of spent went to Facebook, 15% to Google properties, and whatever remaining to Twitter.

The ad platform of Facebook is *the* most sophisticated - the sort of filtering and targeting you can do is detailed, you can build an audience. Twitter is the worst, even the interface is from 1999.

Facebook is not making significant missteps. And Twitter is not taking any steps...forget about missteps. Whoever who's running Twitter should rework their ad platform, then it may or may not make profits.

But the core issue of Twitter...why push for profits? If the inventors were not greedy they could have used the model of Craigslist, remain as a useful public service. There will be enough money for your needs, not your wants.

This thingy is the new Segway.

This is beyond ridiculous - especially the part "they send all money to home countries". When they buy houses, automobiles, send their children to school, pay taxes etc. they are a net contributor to the society. And what they do with their money is none of anyone's business...they may send it to their home countries, donate to a Trump charity, or they may go to Las Vegas.

You can make a valid argument H1B program needs tweaking, but you don't have to add gross generalizations, untruth and FUD to the mix.

Start here...https://aeon.co/essays/your-brain-does-not-process-information-and-it-is-not-a-computer

I have no admiration for M$ and I have used Linux in some form or other for more than fifteen years. I admit Windows 7 is a decent OS, may be the best after Win 2000.

Linux is still not a viable substitute to Windows when it comes to Desktop. I don't know how good/bad the IDEs used for enterprise SW development are on Linux. Coding is not the *only* activity a developer does and as an Agile coach you would know the *endless stream of meetings*...do we have a substitute for MS Outlook? IMHO Agile ideas may make a stronger case for M$ SW.

India - the worlds second largest market for more or less everything - is Android territory when it comes to mobile devices. Indians generally ask one question while purchasing a cell phone...does it run WhatsApp? Most will not use an email program in their lives, business is conducted on WhatsApp.

So, Facebook (WhatsApp) and Google (Android) has the country divided equally among themselves.

There is no Apple ecosystem in India. All the "iDevices" are niche products used by the minority upper class/upper middle class. Step into a crowded first class compartment of a Mumbai suburban train and you will spot countless Samsung Galaxy phones, a smattering of Huawei, Micromaxx, Xiaomi, ZTE, MotoG etc and may be one or two iPhone's. Its not going to change unless Apple competes on price.

What utter nonsense!!! I am from India, and I follow what's happening in the country.

You are talking about PDS - Public Distribution System, a version of the food stamp program in US. Yes, there are inadequacies and some level of pilferage, but not like what you describe. PDS is not only rice, its wheat, sugar, pulses, and kerosene.

Less than 60% of the populace of the country has a bank account, that too most of the accounts are dormant. Forget about credit/debit cards.

The current demonetization is the stupidest idea any Indian government has done in the last fifty years. First they claimed it was to uncover black money, then it was "terrorists", and now "digital India".

You are either trolling or talking out of your backside.

A few days back I was driving from Baltimore to the border of New Jersey and New York...a lot of Pennsylvania with Trump and Gary Johnson signs to cross.

On way back I stopped for gas. It was a rural Pennsylvania gas station on US-30. The only purchase I did the whole day was a pint of chocolate milk from the gas station. A brand I had not heard before, local to Pennsylvania. I paid cash $1.13.

Today I am seeing a "suggested post" on Facebook - organic milk of the same brand!

I don't use Facebook on phone. My phone has no data plan.

But Facebook found out I bought chocolate milk!

They know a purchase of chocolate milk from the gas station as the cashier had to scan the item. From the cellphone tower records (a T-Mobile prepaid connection) they narrowed down the choice. I was in the area when the purchase was made.

T-Mobile would have saved the pre-paid account activation IP, which Facebook knows too which I use to browse. They know the SIM was at the gas station.

The moral of the story...they are going to track and infiltrate whether you use cash or coins!

Its difficult to make a profit from Twitter which will keep bean counters contend.

Twitter should have positioned themselves as Craigslist. Then they would have been a valuable service and might have lasted. For that to happen the people behind Twitter should be less greedy.

A majority of Hindus in US will the upper caste (start from Brahmins) upper class who had the advantages of traveling to US for study (or work) and settled down. They are generically called "caste Hindus", they would be materially wealthy whether in US or India.

The right wing Hindu movement (not all of them are bat-shit evil, though quite ignorant) has a lot of support from US, so when the Indian PM Modi shows up at Madison Square Garden, he gets a full house. http://time.com/3442490/india-narendra-modi-madison-square-garden/

In India, they assert their power forcing down vegetarianism (this is a complex issue, which can be argued on moral, ethical and functional terms, here is a primer http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/on-diet-in-india-and-western-arguments-against/article7440854.ece, the usual fear of minorities, which includes Christians, lower caste Hindu's themselves, and other standard issue conservative and regressive ideals.

In USA, they will be seen as archaic with the next generation and the current Millenials, who had the fortune to study in secular American schools which promote some version of tolerance and humanism, which is closer to the core tenets of Hinduism in its truest essence...Tat Tvam Asi.

Wow...classic FUD.

I am an Indian. I have no idea what you are talking about.

Do you think the above is a common occurrence in India (or anywhere else in the world) or some one off event?

The rest of your assertions is also utter nonsense. Are you Donald Trump by any chance?

What the university did is stupid! But your hypothesis is worse than stupid, its bordering on xenophobic fear mongering.

Alrighty then...angry birds dude reviving Nokia is like Donald Trump making America great again.

An open OS / image will be used by people/organizations to their liking or preferences. This will include everything you mentioned, including the fact that the low entry barriers make the ecosystem affordable to all and sundry.

When I am in Mumbai, the guy who owns vegetable shop uses a slightly advanced Samsung Note, and the youngsters manning the counters use a cheap entry level Android. Both play videos, and allows most common apps. In other words, they are using the same software, and that's what matters. This is a revolution of unimaginable magnitude. The entry levels Androids - the $30 to $50 versions - are the first communication device for most of its customers.

The attitude Google showed towards Android is the reason smartphones became a commodity, as ubiquitous as the older feature-phone Nokia's. This is by large a positive development for society.

Half of the success is showing up, and she seems to be very good in that. She's talented to put up a show, may be like The Donald. There is no evidence of any particular skill other than the aura she projected which apparently fooled even people like you.

There is not a single good decision I can think of she took when she was at Yahoo. What Yahoo needed was surgery and re-invention, a surgery which might have even killed the company. Instead what she gave was band-aid and placebo.

30% of $1 billion is $300 million! Tumblr is worth $300 million!! Indeed a revelation!!!

Ms Mayer made a miscalculation. If she was patient and not going into Yahoo, she had a chance to become the first woman CEO of Microsoft. Her competition Nadella is the poster child of mediocrity and she would have wiped the floor during CEO search.

Imagine the damage and the headlines she would have created if she played with M$. Yahoo is too small for someone of her talent.