The Hindu Business Line : Monday, March 23, 2009

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HUMAN RESOURCES: Tech professionals turn to teaching
WHEN CHIPS ARE DOWN. Bangalore, March 22 The shrinking moolah has prompted technology professionals to switch to ...

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS: Why iGATE opted out of Satyam rink
Hyderabad, March 22 iGATE, the US-based IT company that has backed off from the bidding process to acquire majority stake in Satyam Computer Services, has said that it took the decision keeping in mind “totality ...

PEOPLE: New COO for Tata Teleservices
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From eWorld

INTERVIEW: ‘Use downturn as an opportunity to learn’
Customer centricity will be growth driver during slowdown, says Infosys.. The financial and economic turmoil in the US offers both a challenge and opportunity to the tech sector, say IT ...

INTERVIEW: Find toxic assets with analytics
Analytics helps companies to find the pattern underlying data and correct problems, says expert.. It was an early morning meeting, only a few days post 26/11, and when Rita Chakravarti arrived at the Business Line office, after surviving an ...

TECHNOLOGY: All IT takes is a touch
Touch-enabled gadgets are sprouting up everywhere – Here’s a feel of the action.. Picture a surface that can recognise physical objects — from a paintbrush to a cell-phone — and allows finger control to content such as ...

INTERNET: Hit their trail
It’s election time! And it’s summer. If you have planned a vacation, you are pretty much going to be bombarded with news of what politicians are saying and doing, down to every small detail on newspapers, magazines, television, ...

INTERNET: ‘I get what you are saying’
This service helps Americans understand the English spoken by Indian partners.. Ah, the vagaries of the English language! Sometimes it seems you have to eat a dictionary before you can even think of improving vocabulary. For all those who grew ...

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS: Acquisition — and after
Fidelity on the integration challenges after its eFunds buy.. In June 2007, the US-based Fidelity National Information Services (FIS) acquired eFunds Corporation, also an American company, which then had around 4,000 employees working in India, ...

INTERNET: For the HR manager
First Advantage says it offers a candidate background screening service.. It’s easy to hate the HR department in your company. But recruitment is an onerous process. Checking out and getting together a pool of work-ready employees ...

BOOKS: A taste of online journalism
But don’t forget traditional media if you are eyeing progress.. Online news is a young medium, so there are plenty of opportunities to progress fast, writes Andy Bull in The NCTJ Essential Guide to Careers in Journalism (
CYBER QUEST: Quiz
V.V. Ramanan.

1. Which computer-maker is touted as having the ‘greenest family ...

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