newsfolio - february 2014
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Happenings in the IT industry just one click away...TRANSCRIPT
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O i l IT-ITES NEWS YOU SHOULDN”T
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AT&T, IBM announces big data analytics tie-up (Economic Times) http://bit.ly/MzadBg
Hitachi Data Systems, Verizon Enterprise team up on storage solutions (Times Of India) http://bit.ly/1bL7Moy
Who’s Hiring/Firing?
Top recruiters to step-up hiring at B-schools despite slowdown (Economic Times) http://bit.ly/1gsuNR0
Citigroup plans to hire 2,500 professionals in India this year (Economic Times) http://bit.ly/MiNJnz
Ernst & Young, PwC, KPMG and Deloitte to hire 43,000 people in the next four years (Economic Times) http://bit.ly/1bjDp4D
TCS hires 21,000 from campus, to recruit 4,000 more (Times Of India) http://bit.ly/MiJVTt
Wipro to hire 100 graduates every year for global edge (Times Of India) http://bit.ly/KvGgAq
Target Lays Off 475 Workers At Minnesota Offices (Huffington post) http://huff.to/1gUIghM
IBM to cut 15,000 jobs, India operations to be affected (Times Of India) http://bit.ly/1b24RJG
Other updates
Microsoft IT to set up an excellence centre in Bengal (Times Of India) http://bit.ly/1cYZR3R
Snapchat Hires Googler, “Pisses Off” His Googler Friends (Tech crunch) http://tcrn.ch/N92h9E
Google names its top woman Susan Wojcicki to run Youtube Economic Times) http://bit.ly/O8SqSx
Motorola Mobility CEO to join Dropbox as COO (Times Of India) http://bit.ly/1gUJ4mL
Yahoo India appoints Gurmit Singh as MD (Times Of India) http://bit.ly/1nN6ITc
Infosys to open office in Puerto Rico (Times Of India) http://bit.ly/1fdbHgy
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Achieve Your Goals in 2014 — Here’s Research That
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Satya Nadella is Microsoft CEO (Times Of India) http://bit.ly/1bkZ0iT
Industry Updates (IT-ITES)
Indians form the top 1% of technology (Times Of India) http://bit.ly/NL7Egh
Once the preserve of youth, Indian IT staffing enters middle age (NDTV) http://bit.ly/1jQoRC5
Tata Consultancy Services set to replace Genpact as top BPO (Economic Times) http://bit.ly/1nN5UxF
Google best company to work for, says Fortune (NDTV) http://bit.ly/1fdbwlu
Launches & Innovation
Microsoft Partners With DocuSign To Bring eSignatures To Office 365 (Tech crunch) http://tcrn.ch/1moK207
Google unveils videoconferencing box for businesses (Times Of India) http://bit.ly/1bkZq8V
Facebook unveils newspaper app Paper (Times Of India) http://bit.ly/1bciuAO
Ramco Systems launches HR tool with GPS, NFC (Times Of India) http://bit.ly/1h5AqRf
Deals & Expansions
Google buys startup that uses sounds as password (Times Of India) http://bit.ly/1bbY9B0
Yahoo Acquires Technical Recruiting Startup Distill (Tech crunch) http://tcrn.ch/1btnsie and buys smartphone diary-app maker Wander (Times Of India) http://bit.ly/Mcjiiq
Japanese Internet Giant Rakuten Acquires Viber For $900M (Tech crunch) http://tcrn.ch/1g3DBIg
Infosys bags $100-million deal from Netherlands-based TNT Express (Times Of India) http://bit.ly/1f6TTkC and extends outsourcing deal with Philips (Times Of India) http://bit.ly/N9oRPC
Qualcomm buys Palm patents from Hewlett-Packard (Times Of India) http://bit.ly/1gUIZzh
Tech Mahindra eyes next buy in financial sector (Economic Times) http://bit.ly/1kWdjgP
Lenovo buys part of IBM server business for $2.3 billion (Economic Times) http://bit.ly/1jGetKb
Redington, iValue to offer Hitachi cloud services in India (Times Of India) http://bit.ly/1jQpeg5
Alcatel-Lucent to sell enterprise unit (Times Of India) http://bit.ly/Mcjo9Z
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Facebook buys WhatsApp for $19 billion (CNN Money) http://cnnmon.ie/Nc1jJJ
Mphasis opts for new look, drops HP name (Times Of India) http://bit.ly/1cYZwy5