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Thursday, March 11, 2010
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Top news
Pyarelal Shankar, a grocery store owner in Haryana who does not know ABC about computer, but manages to update his inventory online on regular basis with the help of his cellphones. Today, people like Shankar are able to use technologies, which were earlier beyond their reach, as the Indian labs are on a continuous ingress to make technology available to all.
Even though students across IIMs this year got good international offers, unlike last year, from firms in Europe, Singapore, Hong Kong, U.S. and Australia, they have preferred to take domestic over international ones.
Business
The number of jobs posted by the companies that subscribe to the service of online IT jobs marketplace Corp-Corp.com shows a steady growth of IT consulting and contracting job market in the U.S. during the year 2009.
CA has said that it will acquire Nimsoft, which makes availability monitoring software, for $350 million. The deal gives CA an entry into what it calls 'emerging enterprises,' companies with revenue between $300 million to $2 billion.
Citibank NRI Account
Finance
The National Stock Exchange of India and CME Group, the world's most diverse derivatives marketplace has announced cross-listing arrangements, including license agreements covering benchmark indices for U.S. and Indian equities.
Stephen Dover, Chief Investment Officer of Franklin Templeton believes that India gives better opportunities for equity investors compared with China as the growth potential is stronger and there are more quality Indian companies to choose from.
Technology
There have been several questions asked around the globe on whether new sectors, such as clean-energy technologies, are in danger of over-investment.
Researchers at the University of South Australia with the collaboration of Nokia have come up with software, which will offer X-ray vision to see what's on the other side of the building.
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Startup city
Indian founded Tilera raises $25 Million
siliconindia news bureau
San Jose, California based multicore chip maker Tilera has raised $25 million in series C round of investment financing. This round of funding is led by Broadcom, Quanta Computer and NTT Financing.
Remindo: Enhancing Communication
siliconindia news bureau
Remindo.com which belongs to the Orios group was founded by Rehan yar Khan (CEO, Flora2000.com). Rehan who sits on the board for Druvaa another VC backed IT product firm, is also the founder of the Mumbai chapter of the Indian Angel Network.
Magazine
'Fewer Clients, more Attention' is the mantra that has taken UST Global on a constant growth trajectory. Now under the leadership of its CEO Sajan Pillai, it is all set to achieve its vision of becoming a $1 billion enterprise in the next two years.
Power management has become an important criteria and every semi conductor vendor is on the scout for new techniques to achieve better power efficiency.
Book of the day
Get to know the leaders who had the vision to build a great Nation! India, as we know it today....
This deluxe hard-bound volume describes the lineage of the Kuru princes. When Pandu, the father....
Real estate city
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CXO Insights
Investments Churning the Consumer-led Market
Anurakt Jain, Analyst, Draper Fisher Jurvetson India
DFJ focuses on two broad investment themes in India: the first focuses on the customer-led demand space, which includes sectors and large markets with robust growth such as...
A New Telecom Investment Cycle is on the Horizon
Naimish Patel, Entrepreneur in Residence, General Catalyst Partners
Despite recent trends in the global macro-economic environment, bandwidth demand continues to double every 18 months, driven by increasing democratization of content creation, unrelenting demand for multi-media content, and...
Featured communities
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Featured questions
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Featured mentors
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Humor of the day
A mouse was dancing & enjoying in a Lion's Wedding. An Elephant was surprised to see this and asked: Hey Buddy, Why are YOU dancing & enjoying so much?
A very shy young man goes into a bar and sees a beautiful woman sitting alone. After an hour he gathers enough courage to go and ask her, "Er...excuse me, but would you mind if I sat here beside you?"
Videos
Have you ever seen what these cats can do??? I know you don't!! Watch some extreme homevideos.
The wheels turn automatically towards the attraction, Guys be careful
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