Tomorrow night, I'll be hanging out with the cool students at Stanford, giving a talk on Asian images in the media, this website, and all sorts of other fun stuff. Thursday, May 15, 5:30-7:30pm at A3C Ballroom. I'm told there
Hmong Hip-Hop Heritage: The New York Times has a really interesting video segment on Hmong American history/culture and Tou Saiko Lee, a Hmong American rapper out of Minnesota who shares and keeps his heritage alive through a mix of hip
In Gardena, California, a $10,000 reward is being offered for information leading to the conviction of two men who fatally shot 51-year-old Hae Sook Roh while robbing her t-shirt shop: Reward offered in slaying of Gardena shop owner. Store surveillance
Check this out... you could be in the next Transformers movie. Yes, Michael Bay and Co. are currently working on the sequel. It looks like they'll be filming in the Bethlehem, Pennsylvania area next month, and they're looking for Asian
Check out the music video for Scott Tang's "Sublingual." It's directed by Karen Lin, who did the videos for Kelly Tsai's Bystanding and Seriously's Irony. This one's completely different, but still a beautifully shot piece, with some attractive people, telling
A federal judge in Los Angeles has ruled that Countrywide Financial Corp. must face a shareholder lawsuit. According to The Associated Press, the suit alleges the company engaged in risky lending practices that led to a steep decline of its
CBS Corp. will become a top 10 U.S. Internet company with a $1.8 billion deal to buy San Francisco-based CNET Networks and its popular online tech info and other sites.
Former corporate raider Carl Icahn has nominated an alternative slate of directors for Yahoo's board, including such big industry names as former Universal Studios and Viacom Inc.
Mistakes are NOT inevitable, but the logical consequences of remediable design. As such, it's so much easier to avoid them than to correct them, especially if each one becomes a link in a chain of events that go off the
Henry Samueli, Broadcom Corp.'s chairman of the board and chief technical officer, and David A. Dull, senior vice president and general counsel, will take leaves of absence from the company due to a civil complaint filed against them Wednesday by
Satellite broadcaster Dish Network Corp. largely failed to convince a California jury that a News Corp. company that makes encryption technology for DirecTV paid hackers to crack Dish Network encryption and helped pirate its programming, Reuters news service reported Thursday.
Students attending the University of California's 10 campuses in 2008-2009 are facing an almost-certain 7.4 percent fee increase approved Wednesday on a 7 to 2 vote of the finance committee of the UC Board of Regents.
Los Angeles-based Sometrics, a firm developing applications for gathering analytics about social networking applications, has raised a round of funding from The Mail Room Fund and Greycroft Partners. The firm's CEO, Ian Swanson, said the firm is looking to use
Lexico Publishing Group, a Long Beach-based firm that operates the Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com, and Reference.com web sites, has been acquired by search provider Ask.com, in an all-cash deal. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Ask.com said that Lexico helps
Irvine-based semiconductor firm Broadcom Corporation said late Wednesday, that Dr. Henry Samueli, one of the firm's founders and current Chief Technology Officer and Chairman; and David A. Dull, the firm's Senior Vice President and General Counsel, have both taken a
The short answer to this question is, as a general rule - NO!! If you have been pulled over or contacted by police officers that suspect that you have been driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs, you are,
Triple digit temperatures and high winds in the weather forecast havefire crews on high alert, and they're preparing some high tech tools toprotect people from any fires that pop up.
