DESI SPOTTING: Two NYT Tech Stories, Two Desis

Opening today's business section of the New York Times reminded me of 1999/2000. Back then, it seemed there were South Asians featured in the press several times a week, talking about some tech startup that they, well, started up. Here's the photo that was above the fold in the biz section of the print edition.

That's Arnie Gullov-Singh, vice president in the advertising technology group  at Fox Interactive (which owns MySpace), quoted in a story about how MySpace is aiming to customize its ads better.

MySpace also plans to give its advertisers information about what kind of people its ads have attracted. “We want them to leave knowing more about their audience then when they came into the door,” Arnie Gullov-Singh, vice president in the advertising technology group at Fox Interactive. [Yes, there's a "said" missing.]

See his LinkedIn profile.

A couple of pages over, here was another desi in a photo:

That's Satish Dharmaraj, CEO and co-founder of Zimbra, a company Yahoo bought for $350 million.  From the NYT piece:

By becoming part of Yahoo, Zimbra will be able to offer its products, which will continue to be sold separately, to a greater number of potential customers around the world, said Satish Dharmaraj, Zimbra’s co-founder and chief executive.

See his Zimbra profile.

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