While AOL Chief Operating Officer Ron Grant is himself coming down to Bangalore to officially kick off the Indian face on Thursday, Yahoo!'s soft-spoken co-founder David Filo is set to announce a series of India-specific products tomorrow.
Though India churns out over 325,000 lakh engineering graduates every year, experts say just a third of these are actually "industry-ready".
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Garnett & Helfrich, a US-based specialist venture buyout firm, has reversed its decision to set up a dedicated office in India.
The company, owned by the UB Group, had been relying on internal group reserves and debt to manage its operations over the past two years and this infusion is expected to fuel its sustained growth.
GE Commercial Finance, which has an asset base of more than $230 billion globally, is planning to increase its exposure in the Indian market.
Taking a cue from the telecom and PC industry, Yahoo!India, is aggressively targeting the new Internet and mobile users in rural India.
The amount of digital information consumed globally in 2006 alone, if stacked as books, can go to and fro from the sun 18 times
Launched by of a few IITians, led by Mahendra Pratap, the portal seeks to reward the good referee and punish the not-so-truthful one. A referee can earn up to Rs 10,000 per month by validating candidates' abilities.
America Online (AOL), the largest Internet service provider in the US, is set to launch its India portal over the next couple of months.
Wachovia, one of the largest banks in the US, with an asset base of more than $700 billion, is set to diversify in India.
NIIT Limited, a provider of IT training, learning and knowledge solutions, is set to expand its overseas presence by expanding its chain of IT education training centres in a few emerging countries and by entering new geographies.
In a scenario where the stock markets are being ravaged across the world, the MindTree stock which debuted on BSE on Wednesday listed at a premium of more than 40 per cent while the other stocks which opened for listing traded below the listing price
Big and small domestic IT firms are busy positioning themselves to snap up the $8 billion market opportunity that the aerospace sector has created.
Almost 90 per cent of companies that started their captive operations (set up to provide internal services and in some cases sell them to clients) in India in the last 18 months are operating with less than 300 people each.
From a modest beginning as a defence exposition in 1996, Aero India 2007, the sixth edition of the biennial event, has matured beyond recognition, drawing attention from all the global aviation biggies.
Avesthagen's promoters also refute violation of non-compete clause.
Y Gopala Rao who retired as chairman and managing director, Bharat Electronics, a defence PSU based out of Bangalore, had identified cutting costs as a key objective for the future.
R Karthik Shekhar took the lead to float the Union for Information and Technology Enabled Services in September 2005.
Oak Hill Capital Partners, a US-based private equity firm, is understood to be working towards merging its two BPO portfolio companies, Genpact and Vertex Data Systems.
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