June-2011 issue
Cover Story
Author: Hari Anil
The nightmares of the great recession are all in the past and now the world seems to be a very fair place for technology professionals. The job market is blooming, many companies offering very attractive salary packages for prospective...
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Feature
Jaya Smitha Menon
Multicultural marketing has always been a debated and doubted proposition. But if you are a Corporate addressing consumers...
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In My Opinion
Satbir Khanuja
Jeffrey Katzenberg, co-founder of DreamWorks, sums up the value of good company culture in a nice quote: “Our philosophy is...
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Company Spotlight
Vimali Swamy
Lead generation is one of the biggest challenges for businesses today. Research shows that, as industry becomes more...
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VC talk
Parag Dhol
Where we invest
In India, the depth in each of the different segments in the industry is too narrow while the breadth is...
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CEO Spotlight
Surya Potharaju
There in now a realization that the inverter topologies significantly impact the remaining BOS components like wires,...
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Bikash Barai
The threat landscape has changed in a big way in the past decade. From mild website hacking to open security breaches, today...
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Technology
Ashish Bhagwat
The Cloud Revolution
I do not have to emphasize that cloud computing is turning out to be one of the big revolutions in...
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Anuradha Biswas
Software testing has evolved over the last several decades. The ever increasing sophistication of applications and the...
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Rohit Arora
Access to credit is crucial to small companies, and President Obama is banking that increased lending to entrepreneurs will...
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Pravin Kothari
Use of cloud computing continues to grow at a healthy pace. Independent research firm Forrester Research expects the global...
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Management
Dr. Satyam Priyadarshy
The world has definitely changed in the last two decades. Businesses are truly global and are increasingly driven by...
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Business
Aparna Challu
Gains from IT sourcing strategy should be expected to be naturally aligned with a degree of corporate risk and the management...
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Murali S Kakolu
Last week, my children wanted me to take them for the Indian Premier League (IPL) match at Bangalore between Royal Challengers...
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Nimesh Shah
The challenges faced by businesses today are not all that different than the challenges of 50 years ago — pressures to...
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VC Chakra
SI Team
MobileIron, an enterprise management and security provider for mobile devices and apps, closed a Series D growth financing...
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si Team
Claritics, a social intelligence company, raised $1.5 million in Series A funding from Cervin Ventures and TiE Angles. The fund...
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Sourcebits, a third party developer of mobile applications, raised a venture capital investment of $5 million each from Sequoia...
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Hara Technologies, a provider of environmental and energy management solutions, raises $25 million in Series C round of...
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In Focus
si Team
The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE) Silicon Valley chapter announced the winners of the TiE50 2011 Awards, of which 18 companies are...
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si Team
The number of patents approved for Indian nationals is less in number than it is to foreigners, prompting the government to say...
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Anamika Sahu
At the beginning of 20th century Mahatma Gandhi said, "The soul of India lives in its villages," we are in the next century now...
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si Team
Owning nearly a fifth of 1.5 million non-farm U.S. businesses owned by Asians operating the U.S. in 2007, Indians raked in over...
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Editor's Desk
Christo Jacob
It is raining sequels in Hollywood this year! Having experienced a successful run of the first installment of the movies,...
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