Whitehurst talks about India expansion plans, its latest offering in cloud computing and India's most ambitious project Aadhaar.
A few weeks ago, the admission director of a Pune-based B-school received a strange unsolicited phone call from an 'admissions' consultant.
With the economy giving positive signals, hiring is back. However, so is attrition, with disgruntled employees demanding more or moving to greener pastures to make up for lost time and money.
Low delinquency rates, huge demand attract investors to the unique gold financing sector.
Reliance Industries' annual general meeting on Friday will be unique in many ways. It's the first AGM after the Supreme Court judgment on K-G gas, the first after the truce between Mukesh and Anil Ambani and the first after the company's big-bang return to telecom.
The Supreme Court decision upholding the government right to decide on sale of natural gas has prompted the latter to exercise control over gas sales from Oil and Natural Gas Corporation's C-series field, off the Daman coast.
A large number of management schools in the country have begun outsourcing the process of student placements to human resource consultants. Traditionally, B-schools have an in-house placement team, headed by a faculty member. Several B-schools, on condition of anonymity, confirmed they had hired HR consultancies to find jobs for their students. Many of them also plan to have the agencies help out with placing their students as interns with companies.
Domestic information technology services majors Tata Consultancy Services, Wipro Technologies and Tech Mahindra and global players like IBM and Japan-based NEC are among the 10 shortlisted companies for the Nandan Nilekani-headed Unique Identification Authority of India biometrics job.
Within 24 hours of the brothers Ambani deciding on a ceasefire, the stock market and Reliance pundits are out with their calculators to figure out the financial implication of ending the non-compete terms five years in advance and the loss that Anil Ambani's Reliance Natural Resources Limited would incur post the Supreme Court verdict.
Sites like Facebook and Orkut may be great for connecting with others, but they also provide a sure-fire way for broadcasting intimate details about you.
Uncertainty may shroud their deemed status with the apex court yet to deliver its final verdict. However, admissions to nearly 50 per cent of deemed universities blacklisted by the Ministry of Human Resources and Development (MHRD) are on in full swing.
Peter Gartenberg, SAP India Managing Director tells about the changes taking place at SAP globally
People tend to think that online means access to information on the fly. But that does not mean that any individual can access the data, says Sunil Chandiramani.
Max India founder and chairman Analjit Singh is in talks with four foreign universities to set up a medical college in the country.
To be set up under the PPP model, the 20 institutes will offer undergraduate, masters and PhD programmes.
Japan's leading information technology services and solutions provider, NTT Data Corporation, has emerged as the most aggressive suitor for Indian software services firm Patni Computer Systems. NTT is in advanced talks with the promoters of Patni Computer to buy their combined 46.5 per cent stake, investment banking sources said.
MindTree, the Bangalore-based information technology services provider, has bagged the application development services segment of the Nandan Nilekani-headed Unique Identification (UID) project, renamed as 'Aadhaar'. This is the first of the many IT projects that has come up for bidding till date.
India's second-largest software services company, Infosys Technologies, for instance, plans to hire close to 30,000 this financial year.
Infosys, India's second-largest information technology services provider, believes winning two to five 'transformational' deals in the range of $30-80 million for the company every quarter could become a norm.
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