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MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS:
Satyam is cash surplus again
Company clears salaries, most of its pending bills. Chennai, April 2 With prospective buyers set to make their bids, Satyam Computer, which was struggling to even meet its January salary bill, now reports a small cash surplus. This is after ...
MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS:
Satyam board for open auction
Hyderabad, April 2 The board of Satyam Computer Services has modified the bidding process for the sale of 51 per cent in the company by allowing for open auction method instead of the sealed ...
OUTSOURCING:
Vendors see growing interest from first-time outsourcers
Trend more pronounced among SME clients. Bangalore, April 2 Even as uncertainty persists over clients’ budgets, Indian IT vendors have begun to see growing interest from first-time outsourcers looking to rein-in ...
E-COMMERCE & E-BUSINESS:
eMudhra digital signatures extended
3i Infotech Consumer Services has partnered with financial services company Karvy Group to extend the reach of eMudhra Digital Signature Certificates in the country. According to the pact, Karvy Data Management Services Ltd, a ...
OVERSEAS INVESTMENTS:
Kaashyap Tech to buy stake in US co
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SOFTWARE:
Spice Group board meet to review strategy for Satyam
Second round of bidding through open auction. New Delhi, April 2 Spice Group, which last week withdrew from the race for Satyam, on Thursday said it would hold a board meeting on Saturday to review its strategy, post the modifications in the ...
OUTLOOK:
Alcatel Lucent to diversify into new verticals
New Delhi, April 2 Communications technology major Alcatel Lucent is diversifying its product portfolio to cater to new verticals including the defence sector, utility companies and the metro rail projects in various cities. Speaking to ...
HUMAN RESOURCES:
Cognizant to pay $5,09,000 as back wages to 67 employees
Mumbai, April 2 The US Department of Labour has asked IT services major Cognizant Technology Solutions to pay $5,09,000 as back-wages to 67 employees who went to the US on ...
SOFTWARE:
Hays Plc opens India unit
Mumbai, April 2Specialist staffing firm Hays Plc launched its India unit with the aim of providing its contingency-based recruitment services here. As per the recruitment model, Hays will charge a recruitment fee from its client only if ...
PEOPLE:
Pramod Bhasin is new Chairman of Nasscom
New Delhi, April 2 Software association Nasscom on Thursday announced the appointment of Mr Pramod Bhasin as its Chairman for the year 2009-2010. Mr Bhasin (President and CEO of Genpact) succeeds Mr Ganesh Natarajan, who served as the Chairman ...
TELECOMMUNICATIONS:
Vodafone’s new prepaid plan
Vodafone Essar has announced the launch of a new ‘Lifelong Prepaid @ Rs 46 plan’ for its prepaid customers in Kerala. The offer comes with lifetime validity and a talk time of Rs 5. Vodafone customers can make local calls to all ...
TELECOMMUNICATIONS:
Which turn for telecom?
Should the licensing and regulatory structure be changed for migration to new technologies? Or is status quo better? The telecom sector is split on the route to take.. Telecom networks in India are set to undergo a major change over the next few ...
TELECOMMUNICATIONS:
What NGN is all about
NGN is essentially a managed IP-based (i.e., packet-switched) network that supports a variety of high-speed data-intensive services including, IPTV, HDTV, videoconferencing, VoIP, Instant Messaging, e-mail, and other packet-switched ...
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY:
Happy birthday!
Some years ago, I was very depressed the evening of my birthday because no one other than my parents remembered it, in spite of some not-so-subtle hints. Okay, it was unfortunate that the people I hinted to went out of town and the rest ...
SOFTWARE:
More scope for efficiency
Scope International on steps it has taken to counter the slowdown.. The worst time to plan for a crisis is when you are in it: David Awcock, Group head of Technology at Standard Chartered Bank (SCB), said it all with that one sentence, to ...
TECHNOLOGY:
‘Honey, I shrunk the test time’
At Ashok Leyland’s Technical Centre, vehicles experience every bump and pothole that could be on the road, thanks to the simulator.. Nothing is constant in life — least of all customer expectations. Hence organisations across the ...
SECURITY:
Connect with care
Online campaigns are on, but ? watch out for the cyber criminals?. With Lok Sabha elections just over a month away, a lot of institutional bodies have launched online campaigns to connect with the young, literate and Internet-savvy ...
INTERNET:
Health-wise
TCS's portal is offering users more services.. Health is one of the most widely searched for topics, online. Now here is more news for health buffs. The TCS (Tata Consultancy Services) Health portal, WebHealthCentre (www.webhealthcentre.com) ...
INTERVIEW:
‘Outsourcing will be more widely accepted’
CEO of HCL Tech’s BPO division shares his reasons for optimism.. With the organic and linear expansion of the IT (information technology) sector, in general, coming under threat as a result of the global economic crisis, what would be ...
INTERVIEW:
'800 million waiting to be connected'
Precisely why Sistema sees scope to scale up for better margins.. Vsevold Rozanov, the 37-year-old President and CEO of Sistema Shyam TeleServices Ltd, believes that he has a “joyful” task on his hands — in contrast with other ...
BOOKS:
Politics and the public
New forms of participation are emerging.. New forms of public participation are viewed as a means of engaging a public that is disenchanted with formal political styles and institutions, write Janet Newman and John Clarke in Publics, Politics ...
CYBER QUEST:
Quiz
V.V. Ramanan. 2. Quietube has been one of the more popular downloads recently. What ...
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