Kammas World

When  Upper Saddle River  eighth-grader Sri Sai Suhita Kodali walked into Cavallini Middle School on March 8, she didn’t imagine school officials and her parents would surprise her a few hours later with a trophy and certificate naming her the New Jersey first place winner and sixth place national winner in an essay writing contest that encourages financial literacy. The annual writing contest, InvestWrite, is through the SIFMA Foundation, a non-profit working with students nationwide to learn about finances, business and the economy. Kodali and other students in teacher Linda Vandenbree’s class have been involved with the foundation’s Stock Market Game, which is an online simulation of the global capital markets, and encourages students to look at personal finance and investing. "InvestWrite and the Stock Market Game program require students like SriSaiSuhita to monitor daily global market activity, business trends, and economic factors that drive investments to dete...

Position: Heads Google's research for emerging markets, which includes India Lalitesh Katragadda is the man behind Google Map Maker and Google Transliteration. He builds tools that help groups of people compile information to build something greater than the sum of its parts and Google Maps is the best example for it. He says that he ensures barriers such as language do not prevent the millions of new users from getting online and making the most of what companies like Google have to offer, and Google Transliteration fit the bill perfectly. Katragadda said that the challenge before Google is to make the next 3 billion people go online in the next decade. "In India, we have a target of getting the next 200 million users go online from the current 100-120 million. India will be able to easily achieve 150 million users but to reach about 300-500 million users is a big task," he said. He has BTech Aero, from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay; MS, Aerospace fr...

US and UK-based company Kony Solutions, which sells annual subscriptions to enterprise customers for an app development platform service, has entered into discussions with banks, including JPMorgan Chase and Goldman Sachs, about launching an IPO this year or in 2014, CEO Raj Koneru told. The company has yet to decide how much stock to sell or how much money to raise.   Koneru said that Kony has still not made a profit but expects its revenue to around double to USD 80-USD 100 million this year. The company has raised around USD 35 million from Insight Venture Partners and Georgian Partners and could use IPO proceeds for R&D and software improvements. Founded in 2007, Kony claims to have over 70 Fortune 500 companies as clients which have developed apps for consumer and business functions, including mobile banking remote deposit, mobile travel reservations and mobile insurance claims processing. Its platform supports all mobile devices, kiosks and desktops, all major oper...

Kamma candidates contesting for Karnataka Assembly Elections: 1) Muniratna Naidu from Rajarajeswari - Bangalore (Cong) 2) G.H.Thippareddy (Sitting MLC) from Chitradurga (BJP) 3) Kolla SeshagiriRao from Sindhanur (BJP) 4) Nekkanti Nagaraju from Koppal (BSR Congress) 5) Konanki Ramappa from Bellary (IND) Muniratna Naidu and G.H.Thippareddy are hope to win elections. The remaining candidates are facing tough competition.

Former Karnataka and Himachal Pradesh Governor V S Ramadevi, the only woman to head the Election Commission, died here on Wednesday following cardiac arrest, family sources said. 79 year-old Ramadevi was not suffering from any ailment and was leading an active life despite her old age, the sources said. "In fact, she had lunch and spoke to some relatives over the phone before she suffered a massive cardiac arrest", they said. Born on March 15, 1934, Ms Ramadevi was the Chief Election Commissioner of India from November 26, 1990 to December 11, 1990. She was the only woman to hold the post. She was succeeded by TN Sheshan. She had served as the Governor of Himachal Pradesh from July 26, 1997 to December 1, 1999 and as the Governor of Karnataka from December 2, 1999 to May 20, 2002. State mourning The State has declared a three day mourning from April 17 to April 19. The National flag will fly at half mast atop all government buildings. She is survived by her son ...

Satya Nadella, president of Microsoft Corporation’s Server and Tools Business (STB) and an alumnus of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM), will be presented the UWM Chancellor’s Innovator Awarded at a luncheon ceremony at the University Club on Tuesday, April 9. Nadella (’90 MS computer science) is the second recipient of the award, which recognizes UWM alumni whose careers have redefined the word “innovation” in ways that acknowledge the wide possibilities that exist when knowledge, creativity and imagination converge. Later, at 2 p.m., Nadella gave the Distinguished Lecture at the UWM College of Engineering & Applied Science. The talk, “Era of the Cloud OS,” will be on campus in room East 250 of the Engineering and Mathematical Sciences (EMS) building, 3200 N. Cramer St. The talk will focus on the world of cloud services and new application patterns that are driving the need for a “Cloud OS.” Nadella will discuss the trends and new ideas that are changing the ...

Last weekend in New York City, Ram Kolli defeated the reigning USA Memory Championship Nelson Dellis to win the 16th annual USA Memory Championship. Readers of my book Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything will remember Kolli as the "mental athlete" I went toe-to-toe with when I won that same contest in 2006. Here's the thing: Despite being U.S. memory champions, Kolli, Dellis, and I occasionally misplace our car keys, just like everyone else. We don't actually have great memories. Rather, we know how to use the memories we've got more effectively in certain contexts, thanks to a set of mnemonic techniques invented in antiquity. One of those techniques, known as the memory palace, was supposedly invented by a Greek poet 2,500 years ago. It involves converting information into wild, wacky and strange (and therefore memorable) images, and then visualizing those images in your mind's eye, inside of a building you know...

The President has appointed five new judges to the AP High Court. The High Court has received the warrant of appointments from the Government of India, appointing Challa Kodandaram and 4 others. Acting Chief Justice Nuthalapati Venkata Ramana will administer the oath to the new judges on Friday noon at the High Court. Challa Kodandaram, son of former minister Challa Subbarayudu and nephew of former Chief Justice of AP High Court Challa Kondaiah obtained his law degree from Andhra University in 1983 and enrolled as an advocate with the AP Bar Council in 1988. Kodandaram is a specialist in Corporate and Electricity Laws, and an expert in Constitutional Remedies, Direct and Indirect Taxation, Arbitration and Conciliation. He was born Anantapur district.