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December-2010 issue
Venture Beat
Author: ST Team
Intel Capital, Intel Corporation’s global investment arm has announced a bulk investment of $77 million in 18 new companies of which three are based in India — Shufflr.tv, BuzzInTown and Verismo Networks. more>>

Buyers Perspective

Hari Anil
The consumer business for dell in India has been growing consistently for the last several quarters. A lot of effort has gone... more>>
Hari Anil
With the industry reeling from the financial crisis and businesses still facing uncertainty about their futures, the need to... more>>

Technology

Juby Thomas
It’s the scene of proliferation of applications, as its importance is gradually on an upside in devices ranging from... more>>

Leadership

Binu T Paul
Taking risks is not necessarily about dealing with uncertainty, which most of us tend to believe. Risk is an opportunity, an... more>>

Tech Buzz

Hari Anil
By launching 3G service in nine circles across India last month Tata Docomo became the first private telecom company to do so.... more>>
Hari Anil
Prakat Solutions, a Bangalore-based Independent Services Company, has partnered with Mitra Jyothi, a charitable trust for... more>>
Hari Anil
Yahoo! launches yahoo messenger app for android users and updated their yahoo mail app for the same. Yahoo! has added video... more>>
Hari Anil
Benchmarking is an established practice in several countries around the world. The U.S., UK and Japan, have their well... more>>
Hari Anil
Silvan Innovations Lab, an electronic product development company that specializes in video surveillance analytics and home... more>>
Hari Anil
ANSYS India recently announced two new channel partnerships with Entuple Technologies, and ATeN Systems and Technology. more>>

Tech Product

Hari Anil
Cisco launched their latest Linksys E-Series wireless routers in India. more>>
Hari Anil
Samsung India’s new SCX 3201, with dimensions of 38.8 cm x 29.9 cm x 23.4 cm will qualify to be the world’s smallest laser... more>>
Hari Anil
Micromax in partnership with Israeli company Modu brings the world’s lightest 3G smart phone, Modu T, to India. more>>
Hari Anil
Logitech unveiled a full line up of HD webcams and their Logitech Vid HD, the free software that supports HD video calling in... more>>
Hari Anil
Samsung introduced its 7-inch touch screen tablet Galaxy Tab in India. Powered by Android Operating System 2.2, Galaxy Tab is... more>>
Hari Anil
Dell launched its XPS 15 Laptop series in India. The series is powered by inter i3, i5 and i7 processors and runs on 64bit... more>>

Business

Anonya Roy
When Watts Humprey defined innovation as “The process of turning ideas into manufacturable and marketable form,” he subtly... more>>
Pradeep Kar
After my MBA I?started my career with Wipro Infotech selling computers for a princely salary of Rs 2350 per month. I was always... more>>
Jaya Smitha Menon
Leadership is about creating a vision, a vision that you want to implement. Leadership is also about articulating these vision... more>>
Juby Thomas
The entrepreneurial scenario continues to grow rapidly. In 1996, the global software market was worth $95 billion. According to... more>>

People Manager

C Mahalingam (Mali)
Jim Collins, co-author of “Good to Great” and a few more best-selling books said:”at this moment, leadership has replaced... more>>

Event

ST Team
At the recent JavaOne conference held in the U.S, Oracle shared its vision for strengthened investment and innovation in Java.... more>>
ST Team
The testing community today, and test managers in particular, are facing a number of new problems such as increasing... more>>

Management

Dr. Anand Deshpande
As our customers were pushing us for rate discounts, we used the opportunity to get our contact points to get us meetings with... more>>
Walden C.Rhines
Leadership means being the best at what you do, but it’s much more than that. In my view, leadership involves looking ahead... more>>
Sandeep Dhar
As a leader, a dilemma one constantly struggles with is between Control and Empowerment. These clearly are two schools of... more>>
Ram Narayan
As I look out of my car and see a sleek and compact Tata Nano driving through buzzing roads of Bangalore, it is one of the... more>>
Ramesh Loganathan
The Indian IT industry is over 2 million strong now! Comprised of some of the best minds in the country (unfortunately, in that... more>>
Satya Prabhakar
Strategy is focus and allocation of resources to a defined set of products/services and systems/processes to market and deliver... more>>
Renjith VP
Lot of people talk about their success stories and highlight upbeat instances from their career which substantiate their... more>>
Pragyan Acharya
A light in the dark, a hope in a shredded scene; one who practices what is preached and remains away from deception is someone... more>>
Kukil Bora
Speaking at the Siliconindia Leadership Summit, Balaji. E, Director & President, Ma Foi Randstad threw great light on... more>>
Pragyan Acharya
What comes to your mind when you hear the term ‘Leader’? Probably, you would reply at the spur of the moment that, he or... more>>
Binu T Paul
Taking risks is not necessarily about dealing with uncertainty, which most of us tend to believe. more>>

In Focus

ST Team
At a time when the country is being rocked by a number of scams, some students of Indian Institute of Management-Ahmadabad have... more>>
ST Team
India is developing its own radar-based Electronic Warfare System (EWS) with two test ranges in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh to... more>>
ST Team
An electronic platform for government payments to and from individual households could save an estimated Rs 100,000 crores for... more>>
ST Team
Indian medical industry may touch $14 billion by 2020 on account of higher private investments in the sector and strong... more>>
ST Team
“India will have its own Silicon Valley in five years,” said Vivek Wadhwa an Adjunct-Professor at Duke University. more>>
ST Team
Vijay ‘Jay’ C. Gandhi became the first Indian American federal judge in the Central District of California, the largest... more>>
ST Team
42 percent of the Indian companies of Gartner surveyed said that they have no immediate plans of investing in cloud... more>>

Cover Story

Hari Anil
A few decades earlier an intrepid breed of Indian entrepreneurs made quite a killing in the Silicon Valley. These entrepreneurs... more>>

VC talk

Venetia Kontogouris
As a venture capital investor, one of the first things that I look for in a potential investment is the entrepreneurial... more>>
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