A few months ago, Accenture started a new business unit named Concadia. This new unit will use the very same technique that the Indian firms employed to penetrate in to the cozy club of IT services to turn the tables on them. Through Concadia, Accenture has started offering IT capacity expansion services which analysts call [...]
Archive for July, 2009
23 Jul
Amazon.com shops another e-shopper in the market. Cornered Shoe seller Zappos.
Amazon.com will pay about $928 million for booming online shoe retailer Zappos.com, expanding aggressively into the apparel arena with a well-known name after trying unsuccessfully to go it alone. Amazon said on Wednesday it struck a deal to buy Zappos, for 927.9 million — mostly in stock — growing its footprint in shoes and apparel. [...]
23 Jul
Yahoo buys Xoopit, a photo organization technology company.
Yahoo Inc said on Wednesday it has bought Xoopit, a privately-held company that provides technology to organize photograph collections in Yahoo’s e-mail system. Xoopit’s technology helps in the sending and sharing of photos through e-mail and enables users organize their inboxes as photo indexes, Bryan Lamkin, Yahoo’s senior vice president for applications, wrote on its [...]
23 Jul
Microsoft Windows 7 is on the way to hardware shops. Releases OS code to PC makers to implant.
Microsoft Corp said on Wednesday it is releasing the code for Windows 7 to PC manufacturers, keeping the software company on track to have machines running its new operating system in the stores by late October. The move means Hewlett-Packard Co, Dell Inc, Acer Inc and other computer makers can start to load up new [...]
21 Jul
Step by step process for online filing of income tax in India for 2008-09 and/or 2009-10.
Indian government has improved their online submission of Income tax and anyone can file the return without looking from help from Chartered Accountant. Please follow these steps to file income tax online financial year for 2008-09 and/or 2009-10. Go to http://www.incometaxindia.gov.in/ Select appropriate type of Return Form Most of the employed/salaries individuals (not having income [...]
20 Jul
Thanks to BBMP, Please pay Property Tax online for 2009-10 using Credit Card or Debit Card.
Good news to Bangaloreans. BBMP now offers tax payers to pay property tax online for the year 2009-10. The good news is that there are no transaction charges for the card users making online payment. For online payment, please follow the link and fill Form IV or Form V as the case maybe. Note: This [...]
18 Jul
Cisco lays off hundreds of employees from its headquarter in US
As per Wall Street Journal, US computer networking giant Cisco Systems has laid off between 600 and 700 employees at its headquarters in San Jose, California, in a bid to reduce costs amid slow sales. The company has also cut jobs at other branches in the United States, although the total number was not immediately [...]
18 Jul
HCL AXON Division of HCL Tech Buys South Africa's UCS Group's SAP Operations.
HCL Technologies Ltd. said Friday its HCL AXON division has bought the SAP operations of South Africa’s UCS Group Ltd. for an initial payment $7.7 million in cash. The deal also includes payments to UCS Group over the next two years based on the acquired operations’ performance, HCL Technologies said in a statement. The total [...]
16 Jul
BT is moving 200 jobs from India to UK.
BT has announced that the company will revert at least 2,000 call centre jobs from India back to Britain. The company has a significant presence in India where the telecom major has a customer service staff of 11,000 employees. At the group’s annual meeting Livingston was asked by an investor, about the group’s planning to [...]
16 Jul
Coming from Onsite? Good, please take two days of paid haliday – Wipro
Wipro office in Hyderabad has directed its employees returning from overseas assignments to report to work 48 hours after their arrival. These two days will be paid leaves for them. Given that of the 34 confirmed cases of swine flu so far, most have been techies, the city’s IT firms have stepped up their swine [...]
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