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Oil IT-ITES NEWS
YOU SHOULDN”T
M I S S
Continued…
 Infosys bags $49.5 million US contract (Times Of India)
http://goo.gl/Pt4Nv
 Baidu buys mobile app company for $1.9 billion (Times Of India)
http://goo.gl/N11vS
 AT&T to buy Leap Wireless for $1.19 billion in cash (Times Of
India) http://goo.gl/YAZha
 RSA acquires India-bred product firm for $225 million (Times Of
India) http://goo.gl/G0cDw
Who’s Hiring/Firing?
 Hon Hai to hire 3,000 after Mozilla tie-up (Times Of India)
http://goo.gl/2Y1hi
 IBM starts job cuts; most lay-offs outside US (Economic Times)
http://goo.gl/22jIH
 HCL, TCS to lay off staff in Finland (Times Of India)
http://goo.gl/WKfCB
Other updates
 HP names ex-Microsoft software chief to board (Times Of India)
http://goo.gl/9Sp7d
 Infosys global sales head Basab Pradhan resigns (Economic Times)
http://goo.gl/TrO2l
 Zynga CEO Mark Pincus steps down, Microsoft Xbox head to
takeover (Times Of India) http://goo.gl/lrDmt
 Texas Instruments names Bobby Mitra as worldwide director
(Times Of India) http://goo.gl/PBVK7
 Yahoo shuts down Internet relic AltaVista (Economic Times)
http://goo.gl/bRlR5
 Hinduja Global opens new delivery centre in Canada (Times Of
India) http://goo.gl/0BzLX
 Cisco to open new R&D centre in Israel (Times Of India)
http://goo.gl/Eujct
 US-based OneOcean launches ClipCard Tech centre in India (Times
Of India) http://goo.gl/rGauL
 Revamped Google Maps App Aims to Give Users More Content
(WSJ) http://on.wsj.com/194JN31
Addwiser Pick of the Month
When You've Done Enough, Do More
(HBR) http://goo.gl/5OE0n
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Great places to work – 2013 (Economic Times)
http://goo.gl/J2iez
Industry Updates (IT-ITES)
 E-commerce sector to touch 100 billion by 2015 (Times Of India)
http://goo.gl/9MAlJ
 How Google India plans to support women entrepreneurs (Techgig)
http://goo.gl/U3LpW
 India is world's most promising innovation hub (ZDnet)
http://zd.net/16NNqUX
Launches & Innovation
 Oracle and NetSuite unveil cloud-computing alliance (Economic Times)
http://goo.gl/FUesj
 NetApp Releases Clustered ONTAP New Software Technology For Big Data
and Cloud Infrastructure (Forbes) http://goo.gl/ehUxy
 Apple unveils new versions of Logic Pro, Mainstage (Times Of India)
http://goo.gl/DNINL
 Spice Mobility rolls out Cloud services (Times Of India) http://goo.gl/nUPqI
 Fujitsu India launches High Performance Computing solutions (Times Of
India) http://goo.gl/O4IeX
 Oracle unveils Sparc super-cluster T5-8 servers (Times Of India)
http://goo.gl/AMgmw
Deals & Expansions
 iGate bags Rs 590 crore contract from US insurer MetLife (Times Of India)
http://goo.gl/qUNwL
 Yahoo buys Bignoggins for more bright ideas http://goo.gl/P4xim, iOS video
app Qwiki for $50 million: Report http://goo.gl/NfSED, acquires email
management app Xobni http://goo.gl/jTt7o (Economic Times)
 Wipro wins large technology outsourcing contract worth Rs 2,900 crore from
Citigroup (Economic Times) http://goo.gl/vIiSj
 Aspect Software to acquire Voxeo for $150 million (Economic Times)
http://goo.gl/D5T6I
 Adobe to buy online marketing platform company for $600 million (Times
Of India) http://goo.gl/eXABH
 Hewlett Packard bags deal worth $4 million in India (Times Of India)
http://goo.gl/WulCS
 IBM's software to help Godrej meet real-time customer demand (Times Of
India) http://goo.gl/ZWMEr
 IBM, Jet Airways sign 10-year call centre deal (Times Of India)
http://goo.gl/D4yHY
 Oracle, NetSuite announce cloud computing alliance (Times Of India)
http://goo.gl/yQFs1O Continued…
TCS beats Infosys to become India's most
admired company (Times Of India)
http://goo.gl/f0K5f
Nasscom sees exciting times ahead for
Indian IT (Times Of India)
http://goo.gl/5FDpB