newsfolio - january 2014
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o HEALTH BRIEF Cholesterol Management (WEBMD) http://bit.ly/1dQV4qa
Why It’s More Deadly to Get Sick at Night
Or On Weekends (TIME) http://ti.me/1f6vjkA
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“A positive thought is the seed of a positive result.”
ECO-PRODUCTS BRIEF
Nine Best Green Gadgets (Next Web) http://tnw.co/1a2bRAb
Eco Friendly Gifts For the Tech-Obsessed (Huffington Post) http://huff.to/1cOK5bb
NFOLIO TEAM: Chief Coordinator: Subin Amarnathan; Coordinator: Smita Philip
Consultants: Saloni. FEEDBACK: [email protected]
JOB BRIEF
Team Manager B’lore/Tech Support, MS
products/ Female/ MNC. 12+yrs exp.
Manager BD: International Experience into
software products (with 6+ years exp) for Noida,
US Based product company (IT).
Mention job title in the subject & send your updated resumes to: [email protected]
O i l IT-ITES NEWS YOU SHOULDN”T
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HCL Technologies announces partnership with CSC (Times of India) http://bit.ly/1hIcbK5
India's Aegis acquires Malaysian BPO firm (Zdnet) http://zd.net/LLWkiO
Ramco Systems bags five new orders from European companies (Economic Times) http://bit.ly/1bwL2bI
VMware and Capgemini Expand Cloud Partnership (Computer World) http://bit.ly/1dLHB30
Who’s Hiring/Firing?
Wipro to hire 100 graduates every year for global edge (Times of India) http://bit.ly/KvGgAq
Infosys to hire 16,000 engineers in 2014 (Zdnet) http://zd.net/1iizIE2
Zomato goes to undergraduate colleges for hiring (Times of India) http://bit.ly/1amywx1
Intel to cut over 5,000 jobs worldwide by end of 2014 (NDTV) http://bit.ly/1hIbi4a
Dell to lay off 30% of EMEA sales staff: Report (Times of India) http://bit.ly/1hD0w1v
Hewlett-Packard plans to cut 5,000 more jobs (Times of India) http://bit.ly/1kT249W
BPO firm Firstsource to cut jobs in India (Times of India) http://bit.ly/1egqh3Y
Other updates
Vineet Nayar retires from HCL’s board (Times of India) http://bit.ly/1dPPwe9
Apple hires NYT Magazine design chief as creative head (Times of India) http://bit.ly/1cPghuI
VMware Appoints Ben Fathi as Chief Technology Officer (Market Watch) http://on.mktw.net/1bKX9Cg
TCS to create 'world's largest' training facility (Zdnet) http://zd.net/19K2Elr
Flipkart plans to sell white goods, furniture (Times of India) http://bit.ly/1cAbgZR
Addwiser Pick of the Month
Why Can’t We Stop Working? (HBR)
http://bit.ly/1aasvDH
January 2014 / 55 C-EX/ Addwiser++
Outlook for IT sector positive: Nasscom
(Times of India) http://bit.ly/1f84kmJ
Industry Updates (IT-ITES)
LinkedIn, Pinterest more popular than Twitter: Study (Times of India) http://bit.ly/1dUTe3u
Yahoo COO Henrique de Castro resigns; no reason given (Times of India) http://bit.ly/1dqVxta
Microsoft may unveil non-Windows OS (Times of India) http://bit.ly/1cPhq5e
Launches & Innovation
HP India launches converged systems, storage solutions (Times of India) http://bit.ly/1cfMwsd
Snapchat updates app to stop spam messages (Times of India) http://bit.ly/1myHxpy
Twitter co-founder unveils Q&A app Jelly (Times of India) http://bit.ly/1efHjiJ
Yahoo launches online magazines (Times of India) http://bit.ly/1f878Al
Deals & Expansions
Facebook acquires Bangalore-based startup Little Eye Labs (Times of India) http://bit.ly/1lW7TyK
After FB, Google buys startup with Indian link (Times of India) http://bit.ly/LKKXrt and also to acquire Nest for $3.2 billion in cash (Times of India) http://bit.ly/1aG93MT
HP, SAP team up on mobile platform (Times of India) http://bit.ly/1dLANST
Microsoft acquires Parature in $100m deal (Times of India) http://bit.ly/1iiwYXk
Oracle Buys Corente (Oracle) http://bit.ly/19apPoA and Responsys for $1.5 billion (Times of India) http://bit.ly/1bKU0Cu
Groupon acquires flash-sale retailer Idelli (Times of India) http://bit.ly/1bffG5E
Hitachi Data Systems, Verizon Enterprise team up on storage solutions (Times of India) http://bit.ly/1bL7Moy
Customer services provider Convergys to buy Stream for $820 million (Reuters) http://reut.rs/1dr4oLg
Accenture to buy Client House for undisclosed amount (Reuters) http://reut.rs/1amAspx
Apple buys map maker BroadMap, note-taking app Catch (Times of India) http://bit.ly/1iixzZ3
Capgemini India wins shared services deal from JSW group (Thehindubusinessline) http://bit.ly/1mnDTvD and signs major contract with Statoil Norway (Times of India) http://bit.ly/1i0QZBI
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India's start-up bubble: The ecosystem explodes (Times of India)
http://bit.ly/19GsOWb
With global economy recovering, top economic official warns of 'cut-throat' years ahead (Global Post) bit.ly/19Pivzc