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April-2012 issue
Cover Story
Author: Vimali Swamy and Anamika Sahu
2009 founded Yebhi.com, may come across as one among these e-commerce portals, but it is not. more>>

In My Opinion

Guru Ganesan - Managing Director, ARM - India Operations
"Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments towards... more>>

VC talk

Ankur Jain - Vice President, Blumberg Capital
The social media juggernaut has increasingly gained momentum over the past few years and the pace of adoption has been... more>>
Ravindran Govindan - Managing Partner, Mercatus Capital
Mercatus Capital is very different from traditional fund management companies. more>>

CEO Spot Light

Christo Jacob
Establishing trust is a key factor for an ecommerce company. more>>

Technology

Nagaraja Prakasam - Managing Director, CDC Software
The rapid development of social media tools has shrunk the world and paved the way for organizations to employ human resource... more>>

Management

Vishwas Nair
The feature crew model was conceived in the 2003 time frame. more>>
Tiger Ramesh - CEO, CSS Corp
Many people ask me why I prefer to work with firms that are perhaps not performing at the peak of their potential. more>>
DeLisa Alexander - Executive Vice President & Chief People Officer, Red Hat
According to a recent survey by global recruitment firm Robert Walters, workers can expect salary increases this year, with... more>>

Business

Vimali Swamy
The main challenges and priorities faced by CEOs around the globe is hiring the topnotch talent and retaining them. more>>
Kumar Goswamy - VP of Products for the VDI-in-a-Box product line, Citrix
Your kids, your mother and your grandparents are doing more to impact the IT industry than you can imagine. more>>

CIO Insights

Christo Jacob
CIGNEX Datamatics has been a big proponent of Open Source and open standards and helped many Enterprise customers "Making Open... more>>

In Conversation

Vimali Swamy
Virtualization of the server has now become a challenge for us. more>>
Vimali Swamy
User data is really critical to us for we need to constantly analyze it, show the ROI to the advertisers on the website. more>>
Vishwas Nair
Over the last decade the healthcare system in the U.S. has become more and more complicated. more>>

Leadership

Vishwas Nair
Open innovation is a concept that spells, "not all the smart people work for you but you can work with them". more>>

Marketing 2.0

Vinay Mantha - Director, Marketing Strategy & Analytics, SapientNitro (India)
The truth has long dawned upon us. more>>

HR Views

Vishwas Nair
In the last four to five years, from an IT industry stand point a couple of changes have happened in the HR space. more>>

Venture Beat

SI Team
Zansaar, a Bangalore based e-shop for home décor products, raises around Rs. 30 crore in funds from Accel Partners and Tiger... more>>
SI Team
The Hyderabad based startup Edutor Technologies raises Rs. 2 crore in angel round of funding from Hyderabad Angels, a network... more>>
SI Team
All kids create content but options to customize and share them with friends and family online are extremely limited. more>>
SI Team
Bangalore based online grocery store BigBasket.com has secures Rs. 50 crore in funding from Ascent Capital. more>>

Rear View

Ganesh Pai - Head of Insurance Market Unit, MphasiS
There is a lot of progress that has been happening in our enterprise business units and insurance is one of the few chosen... more>>

Editor's Desk

Pradeep Shankar
Last month, Army Chief General VK Singh alleged that he was offered a bribe of Rs 14 crore for clearing a contract for trucks. more>>
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