IIT Kharagpur gets more than 1,000 job offers in a record five days, with 144 companies visiting the campus till Dec 5
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Why hasn't India produced a single earth-shaking idea like Python or the World Wide Web, asks Ajit Balakrishnan.
'That an Indian can lead the world's top software company is an important milestone for Indian Americans and for America. But the larger message is for India itself: Imagine what Indians can achieve at home if they put their differences aside and start helping one another,' says Vivek Wadhwa.
Day 1 saw Microsoft make the highest number of offers while Intel emerged as one of the top recruiters on Day 2.
Samsung may be the leader in the burgeoning Indian mobile market.
'India has many attractive features for the long-term investor; it combines: A low per capita income, a young population, and a heavier presence of high margin, asset-light firms in the technology sector.'
Micromax is at second spot in smartphone sales.
The presence of top American companies like Microsoft, Cisco and McKinsey in Bengaluru seem to be motivating terror groups to repeatedly target the IT city as it gives them instant publicity globally and acts to thwart foreign investment there.
Their plan to build a product portfolio will discourage global software vendors such as Oracle, Microsoft and Fidelity, among others, from building a strategic relationship with these big Indian IT firms, reports Debasis Mohapatra.
Microsoft boss Bill Gates has a rare gift: he is super smart from, both, the technology and the business perspectives, says S Somasager, corporate VP, Microsoft Corp.
RIM, maker of BlackBerry, has signalled its intention to cash in on this trend by buying QNX Software Systems -- a key software supplier, to some of the world's leading car companies, including Volkswagen, BMW and Hyundai.
The software would also help the user to move programmes from computer screens to mobile devices, which do not have a standard operating system, researchers at the University of Washington said.
There will be a huge market for healthcare professionals, data and security experts and digital marketers, says Navneet Singh, founder, Avsar HR Services.
It was a common perception in the US that Indians didn't know how to lead a company or delegate authority.
Windows XP -- launched in October 2001 -- is three generations behind the latest operating system Windows 8, that was launched in October 2012.
Microsoft chairman Bill Gates has offered to set up high tech agro kiosks across Maharasthra to help farmers get information on weather and cropping patterns.
The revenue of Indian software market was at $4 billion in 2014.
The attack is not focused towards any particular industry but it is widely spread across industries
With his elevation as the CEO of Twitter, Parag Agrawal, in whom co-founder of the microblogging giant Jack Dorsey has "bone-deep" trust, joins the growing power club of Indian-origin executives helming US-based global multinationals. Twitter's outgoing CEO Dorsey announced on Monday that 37-year old Agrawal, an Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay and Stanford University alumnus, will be the company's new chief executive as he stepped down after 16 years at the company that he co-founded and helmed. A report in The New York Times said Agrawal will receive an annual salary of $1 million, in addition to bonuses, restricted stock units and performance-based stock units.
As part of its Grand Challenges Exploration programme, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, has granted $100,000 to researchers hoping to use chewing gum to detect malaria indicators in saliva so that blood does not have to be drawn.
Seamless integration and intuitive flow of information between mobile OS & hardware is the only make-or-break feature.
Microsoft Corporation will expand the availability of its corporate instant messaging software to mobile devices and cell phones, the world's largest software maker said on Monday.
FB gave these companies access to information of users and even their friends.
Keeping a company on the cutting edge is about more than making workers happy.
Gaurav Garg, Head of Research, CapitalVia answers readers' stock market queries
FutureBrand, which is a global brand transformation company, said part of Reliance's success could be attributed to Mukesh Ambani's recasting of the firm as a one-stop-shop for Indians.
OlaCabs' hyper-growth and an ambitious plan to expand to 100 cities by the end of 2015 are perhaps what attracted Japan's richest man, Masayoshi Son, chairman of telecom and media group SoftBank Corp, to announce an investment of $210 million (around Rs 1,260 crore) in the company.
Babajob.com is trying to help unorganised blue-collar workers get better employment.
Public sector firms presented interesting offers on Day Zero placements at the IITs.
India has emerged as a favoured location for captive technology units of Walmart, Lowes and Daimler.
IIIT-D team builds algorithm that will help identify synthetic images.
The denial rate jumped from 4% to 41% for Tech Mahindra, from 6% to 34% for TCS, from 7% to 53% for Wipro and from just 2% to 45% for Infosys.
After Research In Motion (owners of BlackBerry), the home ministry will now turn the screws on Microsoft, Google, IBM and Oracle. These companies provide technology and services for the virtual private networks (VPNs) run by various operators in India. The government will ask them to conform to regulation that allows intelligence agencies to lawfully intercept data. Failure to do so could result in the termination of VPN services by operators using their technology.
Software employees can opt for company-run programmes, online courses, boot camps to upgrade skills.
Nearly 45 per cent of this value is likely to be delivered by 3 sectors - consumer goods and retail, agriculture and banking and insurance, the Nasscom report said.
The 250,000 citizens of Songdo, a business district which borders the Yellow Sea in Incheon, a free economic zone in South Korea, are seeing hectic activity. Every nook and corner is being wired. The idea is to have everything connected -- buildings, cars and even energy grids.
Yahoo Inc struck a deal with Firefox maker Mozilla Corp to replace Google Inc as the default search engine on the Firefox Web browser in the United States, a move that Yahoo Chief Executive Marissa Mayer said will help boost its flagging search market share.
Communications between the USTR and the world's most powerful pharmaceutical and trade lobbying groups reveal that many raised concerns about India's push to exempt Covid vaccines from intellectual property.
'India needs offensive and defensive security measures to protect itself.'
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