newsfolio -december 2011 industry's year ending events
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December 2011/ 31 C-EX/ Addwiser++
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Chief Coordinator:
Subin Amarnathan
Coordinator:
Smita Philip
Consultants:
Monika Singh, Saloni
Wipro best bet among Tier-I IT cos: Jefferies (Times Of India)
http://goo.gl/JdRmi
If you don’t make mistakes, you’re not working on hard enough problems. And that’s a big mistake. -Frank Wilczek
HEALTH, LIVING ETC.
JOB BRIEF
e s O i l o TORQUE
Industry Updates (IT-ITES)
Google unveils 'Find My Face' tool (CNN) http://cnnmon.ie/skD34b
iTwin lets you access hard disk of your computer from anywhere (Economic Times) http://goo.gl/aUnSl
Google Currents, Google's news app (Times Of India) http://goo.gl/rg1qQ
HP’s WebOS Going Open Source, Tablets May Return (Time) http://ti.me/uMg00G
Recession: Infosys says clients want slower pace (Times Of India) http://goo.gl/t7aol
Launches & Innovation
HP launches first products using Autonomy's tech (Reuters) http://reut.rs/vq74HS & new cloud solutions (Times Of India) http://goo.gl/F58RQ
Google buys mobile app developer Clever Sense (Economic Times) http://goo.gl/F28se
Yahoo! offers video service (The Hindu) http://bit.ly/uVVyyZ
Microsoft Rolls Out Xbox TV Platform (Time) http://ti.me/u9mmli, unveils new CRM version with built-in social network http://bit.ly/vFK3Uh and buys Al Gore-backed video search engine goo.gl/fqIw3(Economic Times)
Huawei debuts enterprise business solutions; launches telepresence (Economic Times) http://goo.gl/oaUBF
Yahoo! launches online comedy channel (Economic Times) http://goo.gl/4QGDh
ARM launches Android development kit with focus on power efficiency (Engadget) http://t.co/vgghplby
Sabeer Bhatia launches free SMS app Jaxtr (Times Of India) http://goo.gl/oR1bJ
Deals & Expansions
Twitter acquires mobile security start-up company (Economic Times) http://t.co/VEq1gsgm
EBay buys Hunch to boost recommendations (Reuters) http://reut.rs/sA45ex
YouTube acquires RightsFlow to help license music (The Hindu) http://bit.ly/rOHcSK
Gowalla confirms Facebook acquisition (CNN) http://bit.ly/tcCMKC
I.B.M. to Buy DemandTec for $440 Million (New York Times) http://nyti.ms/rNaSzP
Zensar partners Google to offer apps to retail, other sectors (Economic Times) http://goo.gl/AitPe
Cognizant inks multi-year agreement with AstraZeneca (Economic Times) http://goo.gl/y9MlF
Aditi Technologies acquires US cloud computing firm (Economic Times) http://goo.gl/TGTY1
SAP acquires SuccessFactors for $3.4bn (Times Of India) http://goo.gl/Ap3Io
Microsoft, AgreeYa Mobility team up (Times Of India) http://goo.gl/uxDpl
Hexaware Tech bags $250m contract (Times Of India) http://goo.gl/BrVx9
Juniper Networks bags contract from Essar (Times Of India) http://goo.gl/JTwh9
Sonata Software enters UAE with JV (Times Of India) http://goo.gl/RfPHv
Contd…
Facebook buys e-mail prioritizer MailRank (Times Of India) http://goo.gl/IBVyP, Acquires The Tech Behind WhoGlue http://goo.gl/kdD5c and the Team Behind HTML5 App Platform Strobe; SproutCore Lives On http://goo.gl/HrDHf (Techcrunch)
Cognizant to develop online apps for Telefonica UK (Times Of India) http://goo.gl/5XmFK
Apple Reportedly Buying Flash Memory Company Anobit For $400 Million – $500 Million (Techcrunch) http://goo.gl/0ur1N
Software AG to hire over 100 people in 2012 (Times Of India) http://goo.gl/S2XqQ
Tagged buys social networking site hi5 (Times of India) http://bit.ly/tmLOMj
Who’s Hiring/Firing?
IT sector may hire less and reduce pay hikes; attrition to come down (Economic Times) goo.gl/dPNUS
Facebook to hire thousands, sees fast growth (Reuters) http://reut.rs/tGzZ2W
McAfee cuts 3 percent of workforce (Reuters) http://reut.rs/u1O8PB
HCL Technologies in Washington to create 400 jobs (Economic Times) http://goo.gl/GvmLd
Wipro expands footprint, to hire 1000 in Africa (Times Of India) http://goo.gl/P51UW & to create 15,000 jobs in West Bengal (Times Of India) http://goo.gl/chgHI
SAP to hire more in India, China (Times Of India) http://goo.gl/cC76j
Nokia Siemens may lay off 2,000 in India (Times Of India) http://goo.gl/NKKsv
Infosys to hire 10,000 by March 2012: CEO (Times Of India) http://goo.gl/V8duC
Mozilla hiring mobile designers, developers (Times Of India) http://goo.gl/3oXuc
Other updates
Twitter introduces revamped Web site (Reuters) http://reut.rs/rxMJQR
Microsoft opens global delivery centre in Bangalore (Economic Times) http://goo.gl/5HdGi
After Buzz, Google to discontinue seven more products (The Hindu) http://bit.ly/sg6Uzg
Tata Technologies opens a global engineering centre in Bangalore (Economic Times) http://goo.gl/liZ8f
CIBER Inc opens new SEZ global delivery centre in Bangalore (Economic Times) http://goo.gl/fFRHf
Instagram Is Coming to Android (Mashable) http://goo.gl/wEG2J
IBM opens three new offices in India (Times Of India) http://goo.gl/u5K1a and first Airport Solutions Lab (Times Of India) http://goo.gl/t8Gma
Addwiser Pick of the Month
To Grow, Leave What You Know Behind
(Harvard Business Review)
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Biggest technology layoffs of 2011 (Times Of India) http://goo.gl/KSCX7
Nasscom maintains growth forecast of 16-18% For IT industry
(Economic Times) http://goo.gl/wlA28
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