The document provides information on various topics related to health, eco-friendly products, job opportunities, and news in the IT and ITES industries. It includes summaries of company acquisitions and deals, new product launches, and hiring and expansion plans of major technology companies. The document is a weekly or monthly newsletter rounding up recent updates in business and technology.

1. oHEALTH BRIEF
Visual Guide to understanding Strokes (WebMD)
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Is Your Food Expired? Don’t be so quick to toss
it! (Healthland) http://ti.me/17KdymV
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Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
ECO-PRODUCTS BRIEF
Site for refurbished goods www.greendust.com
Green Plug / AC-DC Power Adapter. Reduces 13%
power consumption
FR360: Solar & Hand Crank Chargeable, This unique
gadget contains a built-in radio, access to the NOAA
weather band, a powerful torch, a LED flasher and also
an USB phone charger.
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JOB BRIEF
Team Manager B’lore/Tech Support, MS
products/ Female/ MNC. 12+yrs exp.
Digital Marketing Leader 11-18yrs of exp
Bangalore/ Top retail co. (Virtualization)
GM –Director Mobilty: Operations and
profit center Experience (with 15+ years exp) for
New Delhi, top IT/ITES company
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Oil IT-ITES NEWS
YOU SHOULDN”T
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 Cisco buys storage system maker Whiptail (Times Of India)
http://bit.ly/18VZVjr
 Twitter buys mobile ads company MoPub for $350 million
(Reuters) http://reut.rs/15P81OC
 AkzoNobel selects Infosys for finance and accounting solutions
(Economic Times) http://bit.ly/15UGqLS
 Cognizant inks infrastructure management services deal with
IPsoft (Times Of India) http://bit.ly/19MhUuk
Who’s Hiring/Firing?
 IT firms recruit high numbers on big campuses, may hurt
smaller colleges (Times Of India) http://bit.ly/17ThwdA
 Zensar CEO: We will hire 400 engineers (Times Of India)
http://bit.ly/17mO6QP
 Wipro to hire 500 people in Nordic region (Times Of India)
http://bit.ly/17wNegC
 Microsoft axes freelancers, contract writers at MSN (Reuters)
http://reut.rs/17Zzrxi
 Sprint to cut 800 customer-service jobs (Times Of India)
http://bit.ly/17jgWWc
 eBay to hire 1,000 for Bangalore centre (Times Of India)
http://bit.ly/1aGxc7H
 Dell may lay off 1,000 employees in Mohali (Times Of India)
http://bit.ly/177Jhyv
Other updates
 Dell Services names Ashutosh Vaidya as VP, global head of
Apps, BPO unit (Times Of India) http://bit.ly/17KIqnM
 Nokia CEO Elop to move to Microsoft (Times Of India)
http://bit.ly/17pmNW1
 Ashok Vemuri leaves Infosys for iGate (Times Of India)
http://bit.ly/16Wu9jr
Addwiser Pick of the Month
The Most Overlooked Leadership Skill
(HBR) http://bit.ly/1eUk5PD
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IT hires may dip 22 percent in India (ZDNet)
http://zd.net/196penQ
Industry Updates (IT-ITES)
 Yahoo Traffic Is up 20%; Mayer Says Hiring Is Booming (WSJ)
http://on.wsj.com/18QRKVJ
 Yahoo unveils new logo bit.ly/15AOvFr and Yahoo News names editor,
plans major expansion http://bit.ly/17MbeMT (Times Of India)
 Slowdown hits online hiring activity: Report (Times Of India)
http://bit.ly/16gtd9p
Launches & Innovation
 Yahoo launches new video app, Screen (Times Of India)
http://bit.ly/17Tns28
 Microsoft launches portal for Indian developers (Times Of India)
http://bit.ly/17D7vgo
 Wipro launches IT solutions for aviation sector (Times Of India)
http://bit.ly/17Ua4uJ
 VMware launches new solutions for mobile workforce (Times Of India)
http://bit.ly/172v7L8
 Dell launches new cloud and virtualization solutions (Times Of India)
http://bit.ly/17h2cqS
 HP launches Big Data platform HAVEn (Times Of India)
http://bit.ly/17UZOSW
 Microsoft Adds IMAP Support To Outlook.com To Entice Mac
Users, Developers (Techcrunch) http://tcrn.ch/1eoFuTr
Deals & Expansions
 TCS wins multi-year deal from Macau telecom co http://bit.ly/17BxQeQ,
multi-million euro Scandinavian Airlines deal http://bit.ly/17Vu5Rz and
also bags multi-million euro deal from Norwegian company DNB (Times
Of India) http://bit.ly/17vomVH
 HCL Tech bags deal from US co Direct Energy http://bit.ly/14LK1uQ and
from UK-based Anglo American (Times Of India) http://bit.ly/17XO2ap
 Wipro wins $125 million deal from Deutsche Bank http://bit.ly/1aid6Rb
and bags $100 million deal from US company (Times Of India)
http://bit.ly/14QZVyN
 Zensar Technologies signs multi-million dollar deals in US (Times Of India)
http://bit.ly/178lyyj
 Aegis JV bags BPO contract from Saudi Telecom Company (Times Of
India) http://bit.ly/14R06u3
 Tech Mahindra bags outsourcing deal from Volvo (Times Of India)
http://bit.ly/184Lmrv
 IBM to sell its customer care business to Synnex (Times Of India)
http://bit.ly/17Z7jbs
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FACTBOX - Microsoft's patchy deal history
(Reuters) http://reut.rs/17xilIF
It's all in the wrist: Who has vision to
crack the "smartwatch"? (Reuters)
http://reut.rs/18zzOxr