This is indeed a bad new for Indian IT industry. Now he is all set to meet his election promises as he yesterday announced the end to years of tax incentives to the US companies, which create jobs in places like Bangalore, Hyderabad, pune etc. Obama said, “It’s a tax code that says you should [...]

Infosys is India’s second largest software company. Today I will tell you the story of its birth, initial struggle, growth and success. As you all know, Infosys was founded on July 2, 1981 in Pune by N. R. Narayana Murthy, Nandan Nilekani, N. S. Raghavan, Kris Gopalakrishnan, S. D. Shibulal, K. Dinesh and Ashok Arora. [...]

Infosys Technologies is a multinational information technology services company whose headquarter is located in Bangalore, India. It is one of India’s largest IT companies with over 100,000 professionals. It has nine development centers in India and over 50 offices worldwide. Its annual revenues for the fiscal year 2007 – 2008 exceeded US$4 billion with a [...]

Do you think Ramalinga Raju, the ex-chairman of Satyam computer services, is a fraud? Read this article written by an anonymous Satyam employee. I think it may change your opinion.
At a time when almost 90 per cent of my Satyam friends are cribbing about the fraud and betrayal by (former Satyam chairman) B Ramalinga Raju, [...]

Attrition rate in Indian IT industry has gone down and it has reached a level which was there in this industry 3 years back. This dip in attrition rate is not sudden. It happened to recent slowdown in world market. However experts are saying that the main reasons of the downfall of attrition rate is [...]

This is a black day for Indian software industry. Investors in Indian shares are stunned by Mr Raju’s end. So Satyam is now without Raju. He has resigned. Do you want to read that resignation letter in which he confesses to a massive financial fraud. Here comes the full text of the letter which has [...]

You may have heard the name of Pownce. It is a free social networking and micro-blogging site started by Internet entrepreneurs Kevin Rose, Leah Culver, and Daniel Burka. Pownce is centered around sharing messages, files, events, and links with already-established friends. Today I got a a mail from Pownce team. It reads
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This week, Jerry Yang, the founder CEO of Yahoo! announced that he is going to leave the post of CEO. He is a Taiwanese American entrepreneur and the Co-founder, current CEO and Chief of Yahoo. Yahoo.com is the world’s number 1 website of the world, according to alexa ranking. As of 2008, his net worth [...]

Tata Consultancy Services is the biggest Indian software services and consulting company. It is the first solution provider for software services in India. Still it is Asia’s largest information technology firm. Actually, TCS is part of one of India’s largest business group, the Tata Group, which has businesses in areas such as energy, telecommunications, financial [...]

Recently Microsoft has launched a new career web site for engineers, computer scientists and other graduates who are willing to work in this one of the greatest software companies of world history. Here you can browse jobs by country or region and interests. If you want to work for Microsoft then I would suggest you [...]

Microsoft has finally announced that it would soon introduce Web-based versions of Office. Now the Microsoft Office users will be able to edit their documents via a Web browser or mobile phone. Microsoft Office is a set of interrelated desktop applications, servers and services like Word, Excel, Access, Front Page etc. collectively referred to as [...]

So this time it’s Yahoo. World’s most popular web portal Yahoo.com is all set to change the design of its home page. The new home page is under testing phase. This time, the aim behind this change is to include more and more third party content on the home page. For example, after this change [...]

The business community of India is busy in discussing the impact of finance giant Lehman Brothers’s bankruptcy on Indian economy. Still business experts are analyzing the status of Indian finance market after this biggest incident of bankruptcy in world history. I, as a software professional, trying to find out its impact on Indian Software outsourcing [...]

Yesterday Hewlett Packard Inc. has announced that it has future plans to cut around 25,000 jobs over the period of three years. It is going to combine its workforce with EDS (Electronic Data Systems), the company HP has recently acquired. Still the figure is not clear how many employees of the combined company would lose [...]

Before the evolution of computers in world business, India was considered to be the nation of snake charmers, beggars and yogis. Today the perception about this country has completely changed. Now India has become center of hi-tech software development facilities, cutting-edge R&D centers and 24×7 busy call centers. Now IT companies in India are biggest [...]