Premji is ranked 13th on Forbes' first ever list of '100 Richest People In Tech', followed by Nadar on the 14th spot.
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates tops list of the world's top 25 richest self-made billionaires.
Oracle of Omaha will initially invest Rs 1,177 crore (Rs 11.77 billion) in the venture.
PureSystems, the new family of stacks, aims at reducing complexity at the data centre.
Padma Lakshmi cooked Tamarind Rice. What would be your choice?
The Golden State Warriors staved off a late fourth-quarter challenge to beat New Orleans Hornets 103-96 for a successful home return on Tuesday.
Prior to the current role, Pramanik served as Managing Director for Oracle India and Sun Microsystems.
Blame it on improved business climate, restructuring within companies or just the basic need to pursue better opportunities -- the Indian information technology industry is seeing heavy churn at the top.
Adobe has roped in industry veteran Abhay Parasnis to head the firm's technology strategy, particularly its cloud portfolio, reports Ritu Jha.
Rediff.com encapsulates all the sporting action from the past week in this eye-catching photo feature.
Bribe for Goa project estimated at $976,630
Indian-American Silicon Valley venture capitalist Vinod Khosla and his wife Neeru are among the latest billionaires to have pledged half of their vast fortunes to charity either during their lifetime or after death.
Buffett is not coming to only talk foreign direct investment in insurance and invest his billions in Indian equities.
Pramanik, who then joined Oracle India as the managing director, was instrumental in ensuring a smooth integration of Sun Microsystems India with the company.
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.
Prem Jain's 25 years of research is his latest book -- Buffett Beyond Value -- in which he describes the difference between Warren Buffett's attitude towards investing and the academic approach.
The Dataquest-IDC best employer top 20 list is made up of a mix of firms Indian IT firms and the India development centres of software multinationals.
The actress is reportedly picked up for a Canada-based movie, Dawn of War.
While today is an extended holiday for many employees in the IT sector who are enjoying the long weekeed, it is not a total shutdown across India.
In an act of protest against a corruption scandal that has stirred Brazil one artist has blindfolded several 100 statues, including one of Mahatma Gandhi.
Paul, the oracle octopus who shot to fame in the World Cup this summer for his uncanny ability to predict the results of Germany's football matches, has died at his home in Oberhausen at the age of two.
He will become executive chairman and continue to be chairman
Analysts see HCL's Rs 1,780 crore deal with Reader's Digest and another half-a-dozen big deals signed in the past three months by Indian IT firms, encompassing both global and domestic markets, as evidence that the outsourcing story continues to progress as the best option for companies to cut costs in the current difficult economic environment.
As part of the engagement, HCL Technologies would provide application development and infrastructure support across the application stack of Oracle, open technologies, main frame, infrastructure support for network, security, storage, end user computing and data centres, HCL said in a statement.
The world's richest people have become poorer.
Germany's oracle octopus Paul picked Spain to beat the Netherlands in the World Cup final on Sunday in a live television broadcast watched across Europe.
Stephan Schmidling has made a sculpture bearing the footprints of the German football players at Euro 2008.
The Telugu film is outdated in terms of theme at least in the urban context. It may appeal to the rural audience. It's like the social-devotional films which came in the 80s. Anushka stands out for her performance.
There will be a huge market for healthcare professionals, data and security experts and digital marketers, says Navneet Singh, founder, Avsar HR Services.
Roger Federer, Rafa Nadal and Novak Djokovic have won the last 11 Grand Slams between them and an incredible 54 since 2003.
After successfully predicting the winners of the World Cup, Paul the octopus is set to retire.
We, at rediff.com, bring you the five most memorable things/events from the 2010 World Cup.
A list of some of sport's greatest comebacks after Tiger Woods ended an 11-year major championship drought with victory at The Masters on Sunday.
The CVC had asked the CBI to probe the 'irregularities in the tendering process and award of contract and undue benefit caused to the SAP/IBM'.
Here is the Buffett investment philosophy and his and stock-selection criteria with specific emphasis on their application in a down market and a slowing economy.
The proposal will impact US-based companies like IBM, Hewlett Packard, Microsoft and Oracle that have overseas operations in countries like India.
Most large American companies earn more than 50 per cent of their revenue from markets outside the US and will be affected by the proposed tax reforms. Business groups in the US had assailed the proposal, arguing it would subject them to far higher taxes than their foreign competitors must pay and ultimately endanger US jobs. Global companies that earn profits in India are subject to a tax rate of 33.9 per cent and the impact of the proposed reforms on them would be marginal.
The country will host the first ever live NBA match in October this year
They have lost more than $13 billion from their combined wealth, but still the two Ambani brothers have moved higher on Forbes' latest list of the world's ten richest CEOs, while Sunil Mittal has joined the league and Lakshmi Mittal has slipped two places.
'I was always a reluctant actor.' 'I kept putting things off and not doing them.' 'But Tenet has really changed that for me.'
