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Thursday, April 05, 2012
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If
a strong presence on social media was an indication of popularity then
politicians and celebrities may have a reason to rejoice.
Tamil
Nadu was home to the highest percentage of widowed/divorced or
separated individuals in India as per recently released Sample
Registration System data.
Startup City
The startup ecosystem has been observing several midlife people ending up in being their own boss. Read to know.
The highest fund raiser startup of 2011, LightSquared is planning to file for Bankruptcy. Read to know why.
Intel invites Engineers to Live Forum about the Future of Embedded Intelligent Devices
US-Indian
The
former human resources manager of the leading IT firm, Larsen and
Toubro InfoTech,filed a complaint against the company for visa fraud.
Prith
Banerjee, senior vice president of research at HP (Hewlett-Packard) and
director of HP Labs will be leaving the post on April 15.
Technology
The people who sits on the CEO hot seat of these 10 companies could face anything, even getting fired overnight!
With
the rate of advent of technology, nothing seems to be unachievable.
Some of our wildest imaginations might come to life by the year 2020.
Business
Companies
can be researched in two sets. One is public research about consumer
satisfaction, customer care, pricing of products and services, and brand
impressions.
India's
19 nuclear reactors generated a record 32,455 million units (MUs) of
power in fiscal 2011-12, posting a robust growth of 23 percent over
previous fiscal (2010-11).
Magazine
Founded
in 2006 by V.A Venkatesh Babu, California headquartered Tiara
Consulting, is disrupting the traditional partner/vendor model and going
a mile ahead to enable a client's business in a 360 degree view.
When Shibulal spoke to CEOs of several global companies, he saw a dichotomy. Read to know more..
Enterprise IT
Dell
this week signed a definitive agreement to acquire Wyse Technology, a
leader in cloud client computing, to significantly extend its desktop
virtualization offerings.
Organizations
are prioritizing on developing and implementing reliable business
continuity plans to ensure that IT services are always available to
internal users and outside customers.
Real Estate City
Indians
have topped the list of first-time property buyers in Dubai last year,
having bought properties worth 2.1 billion dirhams (292 crore).
Some
people prefer to buy property close to religious localities. At times,
such property may fetch good rental incomes, but on the other side, it
may turn out to be a risky business as well.
CXO Insights
2-3 Difficult Quarters, Then New Opportunities Abound
Dr. Anand Deshpande - Chairman and MD, Persistent Systems
Dr. Anand Deshpande - Chairman and MD, Persistent Systems
In the current economic downturn the outlook for most companies is not great, and waiting for the economic situation to reverse.
Million Vs. Billion Paradox
S. Sengupta - Growth strategy consultant for top management
S. Sengupta - Growth strategy consultant for top management
The scale of a million people and their way of functioning is very different from the billion population scale.
Travel
Kovalam
is an internationally renowned beach with three adjacent crescent
beaches. It has been a favourite haunt of tourists,especially Europeans,
since the 1930s.
With
summer round the corner Indian travellers are ready to loosen purse
strings with nearly 40 per cent of them ready to spend more than Rs one
lakh on holidays.
Blogs: Editor's Choice
There's
been a lot of reporting and speculation in the past few weeks that
Facebook is making a serious foray into search, a buzz similar to
anything and everything surrounding Google's entry into the social..
Technology
is changing education. It's flipping the classroom, bringing
instructional videos to the masses, and dragging online higher
education..
QA Times
In
this article, we will explore writing good maintainable Sahi scripts.
While this article uses Sahi for illustration, the concepts used are
independent of the testing tool.
Embracing
Agile in the Testing practice is not an easy task and fraught with
challenges. This article briefs how a tester can overcome these
challenges through automation.
Most Read Jokes
Two
guys meet up in a bar. The first one asks, "Did you hear the news -
Mike is dead??!!!" "Woah, what the hell happened to him?"
So I was in my car, and I was driving along, and my boss rang up, and he said You have been promoted. And I swerved.
And then he rang up..
One
day Little Johnny says to his father: I want to get married. Father:
Oh, so do you have someone special in your mind? Johnny: Yes, Grandma.
Humor of the Day
A
musical director was having a lot of trouble with one drummer. He
talked and talked and talked with the drummer, but his performance..
A
customer sent an order to a distributor for a large amount of goods
totaling a great deal of money. The distributor noticed that the..
A
kangaroo kept getting out of his enclosure at the zoo. Knowing that he
could hop high, the zoo officials put up a ten-foot fence..
Life & Style
Leading media personalities, film stars, industrialists, and
educationists including Bollywood veterans Dharmendra and Shabana Azmi
were conferred the Padma awards.
Filmmaker Sujoy Ghosh, who is planning a sequel to "Kahaani", is first
set to work on a project that he says will "definitely" have Amitabh
Bachchan and Vidya Balan.
Book of the Day
The Ramayana is the oldest poem in Sanskrit.Hence its author is known as the Adi Kavi or pristine Poet.
What makes India a nation? What has held its many disparate societies with their diverse, sometimes conflicting...
