The project involves building a network around a dozen secured centres, each priced at pound 250 mn.
The youthful former owner of Fame has unwittingly set off a takeover battle over his successful multiplex business.
India's second largest IT company, Infosys Technologies, for instance, has narrowed on the new areas to drive its growth.
National Association of Software and Service Companies had a humble beginning.
The sector may not touch the 30-40 per cent growth rates it witnessed before the slowdown, but an register above 20 per cent growth as it nears calendar year 2011, says Partha Iyengar, regional research head and Vice President, Gartner India.
Once confined to secret chambers, hackers now operate even at the behest of nations - all with the stealth shown by the Greeks to destroy Troy with the Trojan horse.
Firstsource was perhaps the first BPO that set shop in the US city of Buffalo in 2004 with 287 employees.
The show has got a rating of 5.1, much more than the first episode of Bigg Boss (also on Colors a couple of months earlier) that the senior Bachchan hosted. In the process, Abhishek has outperformed the other celebrities as well -- Shah Rukh Khan, Akshay Kumar, Salman Khan, et al (see table below). The ratings have been given by TV rating agency TAM Media Research.
Bhargava along with Harsha Raghavan, the former India head of Candover Investments, have formed Steer Capital.
"The general benchmark that we are getting to hear is in the range of 5-15 per cent. Clearly, the 30-40 per cent hike days are behind us. Along with the slowdown in the US markets, there is a general mismatch in demand and supply. I think firms are being cautious before announcing huge hikes," says Shiv Aggarwal, CEO of ABC Consultants.
The 'First Status Report on Technology Business Incubation' in India also stated that 20 to 30 per cent of incubated companies make it big.
The Aamir Khan-starrer raked in Rs 12.5 crore on Friday and experts estimate the movie to net Rs 40 crore over the first weekend from the box office, with gross collections of Rs 65 crore.
Day Zero was created when demand for IIM graduates had peaked and the institutes had to resort to creative mathematics to accommodate big recruiters without offending the existing ones. Falling job market has forced the B-schools to review the strategy, including placement fee revision.
Mahindra Satyam still has to face 13 Class Action Law suits filed in the US. Analysts peg the cash outflow for these cases to be around $100 million. Satyam also has to get large marquee outsourcing deals, and is yet to restate its accounts which will give investors a good picture of where the company stands.
For start-ups, the model can save 30-40 per cent of the total costs.
Capgemini, the information technology services and consulting major, plans to add 6,000 people in India over the next 12 months, which will make this the company's largest global centre, with over 26,000 employees. The company has a little over 20,000 employees at its headquarters in Paris.
The fight is between Vidhu Vinod Chopra, the producer of 3 Idiots, and multiplexes.
Bing clocks 18 million visits every month, while Google India has unique monthly visits of 753 million.. Analysts say while Bing is in its infancy, it can grow up rapidly once it powers Yahoo! searches across the world.
The company plans to strengthen the offerings of its digital platform, Adtech, which it launched a few months back.
To launch in BIG Cinemas in India, abroad. Brother Mukesh Ambani might be the king of retail, but Anil Ambani's ADAG is getting ready to make its presence felt in branded food products
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