1. With global economy recovering, top
economic official warns of 'cut-throat'
years ahead (Global Post) bit.ly/19Pivzc
Outlook for IT sector positive: Nasscom
India's start-up bubble: The ecosystem
explodes (Times of India)
http://bit.ly/19GsOWb
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(Times of India) http://bit.ly/1f84kmJ
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LinkedIn, Pinterest more popular than Twitter: Study (Times of India)
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http://bit.ly/1dUTe3u
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Yahoo COO Henrique de Castro resigns; no reason given (Times of India)
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http://bit.ly/1dqVxta
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Microsoft may unveil
http://bit.ly/1cPhq5e
non-Windows
OS
(Times
of
India)
Malaysian
BPO
firm
(Zdnet)
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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
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HP India launches converged systems, storage solutions (Times of India)
http://bit.ly/1cfMwsd
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Snapchat updates app to stop spam messages (Times of India)
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http://bit.ly/1myHxpy
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Twitter co-founder unveils Q&A app Jelly (Times of India) http://bit.ly/1efHjiJ
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Yahoo launches online magazines (Times of India) http://bit.ly/1f878Al
Who’s Hiring/Firing?
Wipro to hire 100 graduates every year for global edge (Times of
India) http://bit.ly/KvGgAq
Infosys to hire
http://zd.net/1iizIE2
Zomato goes to undergraduate colleges for hiring (Times of India)
http://bit.ly/1amywx1
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Facebook acquires Bangalore-based startup Little Eye Labs (Times of India)
http://bit.ly/1lW7TyK
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Deals & Expansions
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India's Aegis acquires
http://zd.net/LLWkiO
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Launches & Innovation
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HCL Technologies announces partnership with CSC (Times of India)
http://bit.ly/1hIcbK5
Intel to cut over 5,000 jobs worldwide by end of 2014 (NDTV)
http://bit.ly/1hIbi4a
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Dell to lay off 30% of EMEA sales staff: Report (Times of India)
http://bit.ly/1hD0w1v
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
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India) http://bit.ly/1aG93MT
16,000
engineers
in
2014
(Zdnet)
Hewlett-Packard plans to cut 5,000 more jobs (Times of India)
http://bit.ly/1kT249W
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HP, SAP team up on mobile platform (Times of India) http://bit.ly/1dLANST
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Microsoft acquires
http://bit.ly/1iiwYXk
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Oracle Buys Corente (Oracle) http://bit.ly/19apPoA and Responsys for $1.5
billion (Times of India) http://bit.ly/1bKU0Cu
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Groupon acquires
http://bit.ly/1bffG5E
India) 
Vineet Nayar retires from HCL’s board (Times of India)
http://bit.ly/1dPPwe9
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Hitachi Data Systems, Verizon Enterprise team up on storage solutions 
(Times of India) http://bit.ly/1bL7Moy
Apple hires NYT Magazine design chief as creative head (Times of
India) http://bit.ly/1cPghuI
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Customer services provider Convergys to buy Stream for $820 million 
(Reuters) http://reut.rs/1dr4oLg
VMware Appoints Ben Fathi as Chief Technology Officer (Market
Watch) http://on.mktw.net/1bKX9Cg
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Accenture to buy Client House for undisclosed amount (Reuters) 
http://reut.rs/1amAspx
TCS to create 'world's
http://zd.net/19K2Elr
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Apple buys map maker BroadMap, note-taking app Catch (Times of India) 
http://bit.ly/1iixzZ3
Flipkart plans to sell white goods, furniture (Times of India)
http://bit.ly/1cAbgZR
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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
Parature
flash-sale
in
$100m
retailer
deal
Idelli
(Times
(Times
of
of
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India)
BPO firm Firstsource to cut jobs in India (Times of India)
http://bit.ly/1egqh3Y
Other updates
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