Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

Thursday 26 April 2012


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Thursday, April 26, 2012

Top News
Women have certainly proved their spirits in this male-dominated world and have come out shining dynamically in all fields.
The New Delhi airport will become the world's most expensive, with its operator GMR Infrastructure Ltd permitted to raise charges.
Startup City
The main challenges and priorities faced by CEOs around the globe is hiring the topnotch talent and retaining them. Read.
The rapid development of social media tools has shrunk the world and paved the way for organizations to employ human resource.
US-Indian
Indian students going to U.S. for medical studies will have to sign a bond stating that they will come back to the country after the completion of studies.
A U.S.lawmaker has asked Hillary Clinton, to reconsider the government's decision against issuing a diplomatic visa to Modi, drawing strong reactions from the Indian American Muslim community.
Technology
In its first ever Internet Hall of Fame, Internet Society recognizes 33 visionaries, without who's work, internet would have never been born or grown to this extend. Here is a list of 10 Godfathers from them.
Some ideas implemented by researchers, who existed decades and centuries before our times, were so wonderful that they leave the innovators of the present tech world perplexed.
Business
Standard & Poor's downgraded the rating outlook of as many as 21 entities spanning across top banks, software exporters and public sector undertakings following the agency's revision of country's sovereign outlook.
The notion "self made billionaire" amid women is somewhat we all should be proud of.
Magazine
With a focus on reverse innovation, Dinesh Paliwal, CEO, Harman International turned the company's fortunes and position in market. Read to know more..
2009 founded Yebhi.com is a leader in Indian e-commerce space, thanks to process oriented and customer centric approach.
Enterprise IT
After Blackberry handset makers Research in Motion set up server in India, it may be time for other big players like Facebook and Google to take a call on the same.
Big data and marketing go hand in hand and companies are learning to turn big data into dollars. But how are they doing it?
Real Estate City
Lodha group has roped in Giorgio Armani, an Italian couturier to design luxury residential apartment project in Mumbai.
There are emotions attached when buying a home and every buyer tends to commit an emotional mistake while buying a home.
CXO Insights
Green, The Way To Go
Ram Sudireddy - Founder, President and CEO, CHiL Semiconductor
The cost of building a system on chip at lower geometries like 65 or 45 nanometer is very high. Read to know more about it.
Beat The Slump By Thinking Offshore
Ravi Thummarukudy - VO of the IC Solutions Division, GDA Technologies
The feeling of uncertainty is all-pervasive, except that this time around the tech managers and the entrepreneurs have a few more options.
Travel
These high profile dignitaries not only have all the luxuries on earth they also enjoy luxury in the sky, and often fly around the world in style and comfort.
India is a land of enormous internal diversity. On your journey from Kashmir to Kanyakumari, the cultures and things you encounter are lot more diverse and complicated.
Blogs: Editor's Choice
Ever thought why do corporate honchos stand in need of integrating new-age Human Resource Management System with their current manual HR setup? Is it only to alleviate the HR workloads..
Basically B2B marketing stands for business to business marketing. This is the place where small or large manufacturers, suppliers, importers and exporters can list them to conduct their business and do important..
QA Times
When testing a product or a solution, what should the core basis for testing be? Is it the Functional Specs? Actual product? Design docs? Manuals? Or something else?
Over the last few years products are moving into an Agile mode of development. Although they may not be explicitly termed Agile the including faster release score characteristics of the model.
Most Read Jokes
Cricketers mindset: "DO Vs DIE" .. Ganguly: Do or die. Sehwag: Do before you die. Dravid: DO until they die. Tendulkar: do that will never die...
The teacher asked her students if anyone knew the answer to 2+2, they had three tries or they would not get recess. The first kid said "Uh, 14?"
Airman Jones was assigned to the induction center. There he advised new recruits about their government benefits, especially their GI insurance.
Humor of the Day
At one point during a soccer match in America, the coach said to one of his young players, 'Do you understand what cooperation is?..
A Japanese man went to the eye doctor. The optometrist said to the man, "Sir, I believe you have a cataract..
Below are some actual quotes by doctors doing actual dictation on patients' records (with some comments by me)..

Life & Style
Women have been increasingly contributing to the innovations happening globally which has helped wipe away the gender discrimination.
After teaming up in movies popular onscreen duo Shah Rukh and Juhi would soon recreate their magic in a TV ad.

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...