After match-making, matrimonial websites now want to grab a share of the Rs 70,000 crore (Rs 700 billion) wedding management market.
Paris-based IT major Capgemini is scouting for three more acquisitions amounting to over $1 billion (around Rs 4,300 crore or Rs 43 billion). It is looking at the business process outsourcing (BPO), product engineering and local consulting space.
The salaries of hardware engineers in the Indian information technology industry have nearly doubled over the last two years and yet the exodus to software continues, according to an Elixir Web Solutions survey.
Research and development has become a critical part of the operations of information technology service provider firms in India
Both Indian and MNC IT majors are hiring big time, expressing their confidence in the Indian economy and outsourcing/offshoring growth story.
It's not longer mere talk. Radio Frequency Identification is silently making its presence felt in India and everybody from the big business houses, government, defence to farmers are flaunting it.
Taking a lead from in-film advertising, multi-national companies are now eyeing associative marketing partnerships in Bollywood.
Motorola, the world's second largest mobile manufacturer in the world, plans to continue to offer cheaper phones in the emerging markets even as there are reports that it may register losses in its first-quarter results and cut its sales forecast.
Accenture is taking a leaf out of science fiction movies such as Minority Report and Star Trek. With this aim in mind, engineers in its Bangalore development centre are busy converting these concepts into cutting-edge technology.
Cellphone users are unaware that there are almost 200 viruses that can get into their phones, and wipe out the entire address book, data and music files while they perform an everyday tasks.
Given that some BPOs conduct nearly 150 interviews a day, the threat of fudged resumes and impersonation is compounded many times over.
The current level of automation available in the Indian call centre industry is very rudimentary with only the language assistance interface or the first level of the call being automated.
Ignoring advertising will get increasingly difficult with billboards now being able to beam video advertisements directly to passing cellphones
The placement of brands in mobile games - termed as branded gaming or advergaming - is expected to witness a jump in India with the number of gamers estimated to touch two million in 2007.
After tariffs war, GSM operators are now experimenting with the pricing of value-added services such as downloads of mobile games in 2007.
Companies that invest heavily in firewalls and other protection measures forget that over 15 per cent of their employees are talking to headhunters and prospective new employers at that very moment, say experts.
Interestingly, majority of the 26 highly user-friendly websites come from the world of e-commerce.
A professor feels the use of chips among patients can do wonders but he also believes the usage should not be restricted to therapeutic use only.
Private Equity investments in start-ups accounted for 20 per cent of the overall PE investments in the country, which stood at $7.46 billion in 2006 (over 299 deals).
It is too late to devote resources to chip manufacturing. India, instead, should explore opportunities in solar energy, where entry barriers are low and end-products are sold like commodity, states a JP Morgan report.
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