TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Bharti to invest Rs 200 cr in enterprise biz unit — Plans tie-ups with IT majors to provide solutions to corporates
BHARTI Tele-Ventures will be investing Rs 200 crore over the next 12 months in its Airtel Enterprise business division that is intended to cater to around 800 - 1,000 large corporate customers. The company is also aggressively pursuing tie-ups ... More

BPL Mobile plans expansion in Kerala
BPL Mobile will add 100 cell sites across Kerala within 100 days as part of the company's network and capacity enhancement plan. The company is anticipating an investment to the tune of Rs 75 crore to set up the 100 additional cell sites. ... More

Asia-Pacific mobile alliance
BHARTI Tele-Ventures along with six other mobile operators in the South-East Asian region have formed a joint venture company called Bridge Mobile Pte Ltd with an aim to create a common regional cellular infrastructure. The mobile alliance, ... More

Sunil Mittal to `step back' at Bharti
THE Chairman and Group Managing Director of Bharti Enterprises, Mr Sunil Mittal, has said that Bharti will increasingly be managed by professionals, with the current senior management moving on to look at new businesses. Speaking at the Oracle ... More

Tata Indicom Cable links Chennai with Singapore
THE Tata Group today enlarged its strategic footprint in the business domain of tech-savvy Singapore by launching a new submarine cable link between this city-state and Chennai. The fiber-optic connection, the first to be fully under Indian ... More

Spice Telecom's new package for Karnataka
BANGALORE: Spice Telecom has launched a new tariff package for Karnataka. The Uth 99 package includes talk time worth Rs 9, with outgoing calls at 99 paise per minute from mobile to mobile, 99 paise from mobile to others between 11 p.m. ... More

SOFTWARE
ACS plans Rs 100-cr facility at InfoPark
AFFILIATED Computer Services (ACS), a Fortune 500 company specialising in diversified business process and IT outsourcing solutions, will invest Rs 100 crore in setting up a facility at the Kochi InfoPark in January next. Announcing this, an ... More

Hong Kong can be gateway to China, says trade body
HONG Kong can serve as a springboard to the Chinese mainland for Indian ICT firms aiming to foray into the Chinese market, representatives from the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC) told newspersons on Wednesday. In India to attend ... More

INTERNET
BharatMatrimony's new facility
BHARATMATRIMONY.COM, a portal that aims to facilitate marriages, has expanded its scope by providing its users with a paid service to verify the credentials of people who register with it. At a press conference here on Wednesday, the portal's ... More

BharatMatrimony plays the `panditji' with VeriProfile
IT was a job reserved for the `panditji' of yore, but now if you want to get the credentials of your prospective life partner verified, BharatMatrimony.com will do the needful for a fee. "We are merely responding to a customer need. Lots of our ... More

INDUSTRY ASSOCIATIONS

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS
Belfast centre buyout: HCL in pricing talks with BT
HCL BPO, the business process outsourcing arm of HCL Technologies, plans to make its contact centre at Belfast, Northern Ireland a hub for European operations. HCL recently added 250 employees at the Belfast centre and plans to add another 400 ... More

US firm to buy CashTech Solutions
THE Pune-based CashTech Solutions is to be acquired by the US-based Fundtech Ltd. Under the terms of the agreement, Fundtech would pay $2.9 million in cash at the closing and an additional $0.4 million in cash within 180 days of closing. ... More

ALLIANCES & JOINT VENTURES

OFF-SHORE DEVELOPMENT
Satyam eyes Europe biz from Budapest centre
SATYAM Computer has announced the opening of its global development centre and office in Budapest, Hungary targeting near shore services and plans to recruit locally to meet requirements. The Satyam Hungary Development Centre (SHDC) is located ... More

SECURITY
Fapcci to hold information security meet
HYDERABAD: The Federation of Andhra Pradesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (Fapcci), in association with Software Technology Parks of India (STPI) and Microsoft plans to hold a national seminar on `Information security risk management' ... More

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