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There is a high demand for IT professionals who can envision, design and develop applications for the future.
'Francisco D'Souza, 39, heads what is now the largest public company run by a 40-or-under CEO, though his $ 5.7-billion Cognizant Technology Solutions is dwarfed by the $ 16.9-billion Yahoo!.' Forbes said. 'D'Souza has been an officer at Cognizant for 11 years now, chief executive since 2007, and chief operating officer since 2003, when he was a mere 33.'
It is more of bad news that dominates the top ten tech stories for the year 2008, which includes Microsoft's failed takeover bid for Yahoo, failure of Vista operating system and rumours about death of Apple chief Steve Jobs, as per a list compiled by the Forbes magazine.
India origin Kartar Singh Thakral, who chairs the Indian garment maker Givo, is ranked at the 30th position, while Mustaq Ahmad of the 24-hour Mustafa Centre is at 38th spot. Sunny George Verghese of cashew and cocoa trader Olam International at 39th rank is also among the three Indian origin people. Mustaq Ahmad, who inherited the famous 24-hour Mustafa Centre, is ranked at the 38th position.
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Six Indian women have made it to Asia's most powerful women list released by Forbes.
Business publication Forbes has ranked Ellison as the top paid chief executive in America followed by Occidental Petroleum's Ray R Irani at the second spot with a compensation of $222.64 million. Among the India-origin chief executives, the list features soft drinks maker Pepsico's Indra Nooyi, banking entity Citigroup's Vikram Pandit, financial services firm Hartford Financial Services' Ramani Aiyer and software company Adobe System's Shantanu Narayen, among others.
Left without as much work for all its employees, Infosys is offering some of them an option to work with a non-profit organisation for a year and get paid half their salary by the IT major, its co-founder Nandan Nilekani has said.
'Modi's recent decisions to improve India-China relations, adjust India's neighbourhood policies and to rebalance India's ties with the major powers are linked to his political agenda.' 'Of course, the good part is that this agenda is also in the national interest,' says Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
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International companies usually store data on global servers and the requirement to store data locally would require them to make an additional investment. But policymakers in India believe storing data locally would help monitor and conduct investigations if the need arises.
Senior Vice President Pat Gelsinger discusses the chip maker's future.
It's not very often that you attach the title 'Dr' to the name of a 21-year-old youngster. Meet Dr Tathaghar Avtar Tulsi, who is on top of the world today after joining an exclusive club of scientists with a doctorate at the age of 21.
Chennai-born Nooyi has moved up to the third rank in this year's list, from the fifth last year, to become the top-ranked among all the corporate chiefs on the list.
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Media conglomerate NewsCorp may look at divesting stake in some of its businesses in India, said Chairman Rupert Murdoch. The world's 109th richest man, worth $8.3 billion according to the Forbes 400 ranking, had announced a $100-million investment plan during his recent visit to India.
HCL's founder and chairman Shiv Nadar is making a second foray into university education having sought 300 acres of land in Noida, near New Delhi, to set up a Rs 300-crore (Rs 3 billion) multi-disciplinary university.
'Outside investors don't want to get tangled up in a religious war.'
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India's Anil Ambani has emerged as the biggest wealth creator while Warren Buffet is labelled as the richest man. With wealth soaring by $23.8 billion since the last list, Anil has come out as the biggest gainer.
J K Rowling, author of the best-selling Harry Potter book series, delivered a commencement address at the Annual Meeting of the Harvard Alumni Association
Following the herd right now is exactly the wrong thing to do, say market historians and economists.
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The rich haven't gotten richer--or poorer--this year.
Nancy Barry, president of NBA Enterprise Solutions to Poverty and former president of Women's World Banking, is set to have an Ahmedabad connection.
Ranked 737 in the Forbes global billionaire list with personal wealth of $2.4 billion, Yusuffali's diversification does not stop here.
In what is in effect a deposit to be paid into court pending a full trial in the case, Judge David Waksman has set a six-week timeline for Anil to pay $100 million to three Chinese banks as he concluded that he did not accept Ambani's defence that his net worth was nearly zero or that his family would not step in to assist him when "push came to shove".
While the charismatic Bill Clinton has often turned out in support for his wife, this is the first time that talk show host Oprah Winfrey will campaign for a presidential hopeful.
The 'Everyone Wins' luxury hamper includes expensive beauty services and travel packages.
Meet the world's top venture capitalists, the early investors behind some of the biggest IPOs on the planet.
India's booming real estate sector has more than doubled the number of billionaires from this space in just 12 months, with DLF's Kushal Pal Singh emerging "the world's richest real estate developer." Among 54 Indian billionaires identified by Forbes magazine, there are seven real estate developers with a net worth of over a billion dollar each.
Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal bin Abdulaziz Alsaud, chairman of Kingdom Holding company will become the first private owner of A380 Flying Palace, Airbus said.
