The Hindu Business Line : Looking back

Wipro Q2 net up 79 pc; managers get 5.5 m restricted stock units at face value; wage hike may see Q3 margins shrink; headcount rises 5,500; Spectramind tops BPO headcount.

FourSoft completes CargoMate acquisition.

Empower to raise $3-4 m to market Adrenalin.

Hiring costs to rise 80 pc: e-Serve.

Tata Elxsi Q2 income at Rs 44 cr.

Google offers desktop search.

Sify trims Q2 net loss.

Network to help entrepreneurs mooted.

General Atlantic emerging front-runner for GECIS buy; management to stay.

Intel to team up with JumpStartup and WestBridge Capital.

October 15

SSI loses 70 pc in single day of trading.

DoT may slap Rs 50-cr penalty per licence on Reliance Info; co found flouting ILD norms.

Broadband policy: No access to BSNL last mile lines for private operators.

IT.com to focus on games software, animation; firms drop boycott threat.

Mastek Q1 revenue up 30 pc.

iGate posts 4-fold rise in Q2 net.

Aztec Q2 net jumps 492 pc.

Symphony to scale up infrastructure.

Software exports surge 26 pc.

MS exploring new Indian strategies.

October 14

TCS Q2 net rises 52 pc; GE share in TCS revenue falls; half-year revenues cross $1-b mark.

Reliance Himachal customers most satisfied: TRAI.

Search engine space turning competitive: Google founders.

HSS Q2 net up 52 pc; scouts for BPO, telecom buys.

Nasscom, ITAA sign pact on cyber security.

Reliance Infocomm raises $300 m.

BSNL-MTNL staff oppose last mile to private cos.

Samsung likely to set up handset production base.

TCS rules out CMC merger.

Infosys says US polls factored in guidance.

October 13

Infosys Q2 net jumps 49 pc to Rs 447 cr; recruits 5,000 in one quarter, 4,000 more in the next two; new clients entering at higher prices.

Patni set to acquire US firm Cymbal that addresses telecom space for $68 m.

Paging industry in death throes.

Shipara to become 100 pc HCL Tech subsidiary.

Google officially opens centres in Hyderabad, Bangalore.

ITAA wants H1B visa cap revisited.

Intel opens software college.

Sasken starts Pune centre.

TAIB Bank sells 1.9-cr Maars shares in one month.

Tata, Reliance in last three for last lap of Tyco unit.

MTNL hands out Rs 100-cr bill to Reliance for illegal ILD call routing.

October 12

Bahwan Cybertek bags logistics deal from Omani firm.

Mphasis BFL net rises 49 pc in H1.

Teledensity up 7.85 pc in Aug.

IBM launches its smallest desktop.

BPL Mobile weighs options on fund raising.

Helios & Matheson wins Hughes, Sasken orders.

CMC net up 92.5 pc; Teledata net grows 287 pc.

BPL may launch IPO after BPL Mobile and Cellular merger.

Mphasis buys out minority shareholders in MSourcE; to merge arm with itself.

TRAI may go for investigative body to help in settling disputes.

Outsourcing benefits set to shrink: Forrester.

October 11

Spectrum row now spreads to equipment vendors.

Dell to recall 9,90,000 laptop power adaptors.

TRAI to propose 4 types of licences.

BSNL-Reliance Info spat has security angle too.

Nasscom mulls pact with UGC; new curriculum with industry-ready skills.

ILD call routing: Govt sets deadline for Reliance Info.

8 firms queue up for OSP licence.

VC funding slows down in 2 years.

Wipro plans 6-m restricted stock units for mid-level managers.

Nortel to hire more in India.

BSNL-MTNL merger route by November-end.