Indian corporate gifting companies are set to laugh all the way to the bank this New Year.
Developed by IITians, it will be showcased at the Consumer Electronics Show.
Satyam Computer Services Ltd founder, B Ramalinga Raju, his brothers and their spouses have acquired 1,065 properties with a registered value of Rs 350 crore (Rs 3.50 billion). These include 109 properties in coastal Andhra, 11 in Karnataka, 40 in Nagpur, 29 in Chennai and 876 in Hyderabad and the surrounding Rangareddy district, according to sources tracking developments in the Central Bureau of Investigation probe of the Satyam case.
Wipro Ltd, a provider of IT solutions and services including systems integration, information systems outsourcing and IT-enabled services, says it has not been affected by the crisis in West Asia and will continue to invest in the region. Wipro already has a company -- Wipro Arabia, formed in 2007 through a joint venture with the Dar Al Riyadh Group -- providing IT solutions and services in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
It's just three weeks to Christmas and Indian gaming companies have geared up with their offerings weaved around a plethora of topics relating to the December festival -- carols, cakes, decoration of the Xmas tree, Santa Claus and his magical elves and flying reindeers.
Satyam Computer Services founder B Ramalinga Raju had made trips to the Indian School of Business in Hyderabad, to Visakhapatnam and even the United States, to convince the independent directors on the his board for acquisition of Maytas Infra and Maytas Properties, the two companies promoted by his family members.
By contrast, the fraud enabled Raju's kin and aides to make hundreds of crores, charges CBI.
Indian animation and gaming training institutes are gearing to scale up their businesses and open up new avenues for professionals who are passionate about animation and gaming technologies.
Top officials of the Central Bureau of Investigation are in Mauritius as part of the investigation into the multi-crore Satyam scam, which its founder B Ramalinga Raju confessed to in January.
For the first time in almost six months after it was acquired by Tech Mahindra, Satyam Computer Services (now rebranded as Mahindra Satyam) will hire 130 people from outside the company.
The company will launch the autos in Hyderabad within three months.
In an interview with K Rajani Kanth, NCR Corporation's managing director (India, Nepal and Sri Lanka) Pradeep Sen outlines the company's road map for India, including its plans to scale up its research and development efforts, manufacturing capacity expansion and taking the partner-ecosystem route to penetrate the petroleum and general retail segment.
Three days after announcing the reinstatement of the variable portion of staff salaries, Mahindra Satyam (earlier, Satyam Computer Services) has begun re-introducing other benefits, including employee stock option plans (ESOPs), beside giving promotions and salary hikes across different bands (grades).Mahindra Satyam, now treading a recovery path after it was hit by a big scandal involving its top management, had withdrawn variable pay in April this year.
Now the film, the maiden venture of Ram Mohan, a management graduate-turned-movie producer, has become an entrepreneurship case study for the Indian School of Business.
A regular visitor to the the Small Industries Service Institute's library in Vijayawada, where he was brought up, Raju browsed through various books and business journals and zeroed in on an idea that required more thought-processing and innovation and less investments.
Intelligroup had, in 2007, acquired IGS Novasoft, a UK-based company, which had a good SAP implementation methodology, for $3 million (Rs 14.7 crore).
The company had approached banks with a CDR request for about Rs 1,700 crore. However, according to company sources, the banks felt that Maytas must shed the flab, which includes dilution of stake in the Bangalore elevated tollway to raise funds before the CDR is granted. It has also been reportedly told that it should disengage from various projects which it cannot take forward.
"The portal will be accessible to both existing employees as well as the 8,000-10,000 associates who received sabbatical letters as part of the VPP. The internal portal provides modules on competency enhancement, outplacement services, coaching and counselling support for financial planning and project and knowledge management," a Satyam spokesperson said.
These facilities will accommodate 3,500 employees, who will be moved to the two company-owned campuses.
There are jobs for MBA graduates, particularly in sales, FMCG, telecom and consulting areas. The jobs, according to industry experts, are unfolding in new areas and domains in Tier-II and-III cities and in rural areas. Treating the first job as an extension of the college would be the best approach with the job situation in today's market. Good academics, soft skills, computer skills and learning on the job would be the primary requirements for candidates to find a job.