Pakistan Looks Towards The Irish For IT
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(Pic: Albert Reynolds, Chairman of the Ireland Pakistan Business Council, with the Ambassador of Pakistan to Ireland, Toheed Ahmad and the Chairman of Griffith College, Diarmuid Hegarty is also Vice-Chairman of the Ireland Pakistan Business Council).
KARACHI, APP: Pakistan Software Export Board (PSEB) recently organized networking Events in Dublin, Ireland, in the first week of November.
A statement here on Monday said that the event would be held in collaboration with the Embassy of Pakistan in Dublin, Ireland Pakistan Business Council (IPBC), Dublin Chamber of Commerce, Irish IT Industry and various other local partners.
Indian Prodigy Sells His Ad Startup To Yahoo!
LOS ANGELES, CA — Online entrepreneur and shockingly accomplished prodigy Gurbaksh Chahal appeared on the new Fox Business Network (hosted by David Asman) and expounded upon his recent successes, his evolution into one of the youngest, most highly sought after and flourishing entrepreneurs in the game, as well as divulge his future goals and reveal some promising plans ahead.
At just 25-years-old, he sold his second successful online business venture, BlueLithium, to Yahoo! for a staggering $300 million CASH. At only 18, Chahal sold his first successful online business ValueClick to ClickAgents for $40 million in stock, becoming a teenage multi-millionaire. That’s a value worth clicking!
Hi-Tech Consultants or Coolies?
(Pic: A man supporting a tee with a slogan - 8 Billions Profit are not enough to preserve my job)
KOLKATA: Call it a better work ethic or business necessity caused by the rupee appreciating against the dollar. IT major IBM India has made some of its departments in Kolkata follow a six-day work week since October. The practice is likely to continue till December.
Sources said affected employees have not been given the explicit reasons for the changed work schedule except being vaguely informed that it is to counter the spate of holidays in the festive season and stoppages caused by bandhs. Rupee appreciation, however, was not mentioned as one of the reasons.
IBM, though, denied that there has been any deviation from its normal 5-day work week in any of its departments. “IBM India continues to have a five-days working policy. There is no change in company-wise policy,” a company spokesman said.
India 2.0: From service provider to innovator
(In Pic: Yahoo India building in Bangalore)
Adrian Bridgwater
In October, Yahoo ran an Open Hack Day event in Bangalore, hosted by one of the company’s co-founders, David Filo. Two hundred local developers were invited to a 24-hour code-a-thon to combine their own ideas with mashed-up services from Yahoo’s own library of APIs. The winning entry brought together Yahoo’s mapping tool with a handwriting function to allow users to give travel directions to each other.
This kind of innovation-focused event is symptomatic of what some commentators are claiming is a fundamental shift in the focus of India’s tech industry. “Innovation was always there, but the right conditions, ecosystem and critical mass did not exist from 1947 until the early 1990s. Now, venture capitalists are more willing to venture forth in emerging markets and back entrepreneurs — and India’s universities have helped create critical mass in terms of skilled workers. So, as these factors start to coalesce, innovation and entrepreneurship are now much more evident in many different parts of India,” said Kamla Bhatt, acclaimed Indian podcaster and presenter of The Kamla Bhatt Show.
Sabeer Bhatia’s New Challenge To Microsoft
(Pic: Sabeer Bhatia, Co-Founder of Hotmail)
By Nick Mokey
The fight for the future of office suites has often been described as a one-on-one match between Google and Microsoft, but with the introduction of new competitors, the situation might better be described as an all-out brawl. Indian-based software firm InstaColl introduced its own online office suite on Wednesday, dubbed Live Documents, which closely mimics the functionality of Microsoft Office in a free online form.
Dr. Prabhakar Raghavan
Designation:
Global Research Head, Yahoo!
About:
Prior to joining Yahoo!, Raghavan was senior vice president and chief technology officer of Verity, Inc., a leading provider of enterprise search software that enables organizations to discover, analyze and process all of the digital information within their enterprises. Prior to Verity, he worked for 14 years in a variety of technical and managerial positions at IBM, including head of the Computer Science Principles (CSP) department at IBM’s Almaden Research Center.
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Features
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India’s Software Exports May Increase to $80 Billion
(Pic: Let the good times roll by James Denmark)
By Shailendra Bhatnagar
(Bloomberg) — India’s computer-services exports will expand about 30 percent a year to $80 billion by 2011, federal communications and information-technology minister Andimuthu Raja said today.
No additional details were immediately available in the statement given to reporters in New Delhi.
India’s computer-services exports, including back-office services, for the year ended March 31 rose 33 percent to $31.4 billion, according to the National Association of Software and Service Companies lobbying group. The exports will increase to $60 billion by 2010, Nasscom has forecast.
Tata Consultancy Services Ltd., India’s largest computer- services provider, declined 9.30 rupees to 1,054.90 rupees at 1:20 p.m. local time on the Bombay Stock Exchange. Infosys Technologies Ltd., India’s second largest, fell 1.7 percent to 1,851 rupees.
PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi’s Graduation Speech At Columbia
Good evening, everyone.
Dean Hubbard, distinguished faculty, honored graduates, relieved parents, family, and friends, it’s a distinct pleasure to be in New York City this evening to celebrate the biggest milestone to date in the lives of you, the young men and women before us: your graduation from Columbia University Business School.