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Indian Enterprise IT Spending Will Grow 10.3 % in 2012, Retail to Drive the Growth

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Indian enterprise IT spending across all industry markets is forecast to surpass $39 billion in 2012, a 10.3 percent increase from 2011 spending of $36 billion, according to Gartner, Inc. The growth of IT in India is expected to continue, … Read More »

08 Oct

Of KBC & The “Islandish” Problem With Indian IT Industry

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A few days back NRN made a statement that IITs are producing poor quality of engineers and even the quality of students entering IITs has deteriorated over the years. While that resulted in a major debate, let me share this … Read More »

07 Oct

The Day When Indian IT Employees Couldn’t Search For Steve Jobs’ Death News

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Steve Jobs’ death resulted in 10,000 tweets per second – with the entire world paying their homage to the man who changed the world. But employees of a “few big” Indian IT companies (Mahindra Satyam, iGate, Cognizant and Genpact) couldn’t … Read More »

15 Sep

CSC Acquires Hyderabad Based IT testing firm AppLabs

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CSC has acquired Hyderabad-based software testing company AppLabs for an undisclosed amount. Started in 2001, AppLabs raised $10mn from Sequoia Capital in 2006 and a total of $20million from WestBridge Capital (three rounds of funding in 2004, 2007 and 2008). … Read More »

14 Jun

Bad News for IT Guys–80% Girls Do Not Want to Marry YOU

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BharatMatrimony recently conducted a survey to understand the most sought-after professionals among Indian men and women and the survey (sample size: 5000)has interesting findings: Finance professionals were the most favored marriage partners among Indian women. Fifty per cent of the … Read More »

19 Aug

IT Roundup: Applabs Acquires Valueminds, GlobalOutlook Partners with Jamcracker

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AppLabs, a software testing and quality management company has acquired Hyderabad based ValueMinds, the developer of TestersDesk.com. Testersdesk is a set of tools for test data generation and automated test case creation. Post this acquisition, AppLabs will continue to support … Read More »

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19 Apr

Aditi Technologies to Acquire Infospace India Development Center

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Aditi Technologies, software product and application development services company announced that it has signed a definitive agreement with Infospace, Inc. (NASDAQ, INSP)to acquire its Indian subsidiary, Infospace India Software Development Pvt. Ltd., metasearch and online consumer product company. The terms … Read More »

15 Mar

Facebook Hyderabad Office – India’s BPO Story Wins over Technology

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Much ado about nothing – Facebook is starting a support office in Hyd.and I do not understand why Indian blogosphere has taken that as a big news. Read More »

11 Mar

Hygiene in UID Project [Technical Analysis]

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In this piece on UID, Pratyush & I discuss on some Hygiene issues that would make or break the UID system. And we will definitely refer to the Technical Scope of the recent tenders as well. In our last post, … Read More »