In the first VC investment in mobile advertising in India since the global downturn, IDG Ventures has invested $3 million (Rs 13.5 crore) into Vserv, an Indian tech start-up that specializes in serving ads within mobile phone applications. Vserv is one of the few Indian start ups in the mobile eco-system to make an impact […]
CSC, one of the biggest IT services companies in the World with 20,000 employees in India, has set up a new unit targeting the Indian market. The company, also known as the Computer Sciences Corporation, was one of the pioneer IT services firms dating back to 1959, but lost out some of the momentum compared […]
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), India’s regulator for the media and communications sector, has pulled up major broadcasting companies for violating its pricing rules for TV channels. The regulator, in separate letters addressed to Sun Network, Start Den (of the Rupert Murdoch group), Zee Turner, Taj (Ten Sports), Neo Sports & ESPN, directed […]
With another disappointing quarter from Wipro, the stage is now all set for the ascendancy of the Chennai-based Cognizant Technology Solutions (CTS) into the hallowed group of India’s top 3 IT companies. The top 3 slot had been occupied by Tata Consultancy Services, Infosys Technologies and Wipro for as long as most people can remember. […]
HTC Corporation has launched its ‘facebook phone’, the ChaCha (or ChaChaCha) in India at a price of around Rs 16,000. The phone has been launched in association with Tata DoCoMo, which basically means that you get a lot freebies if you buy it from Tata DoCoMo. The phone is available to everyone, whether a DoCoMo […]
Nuance, arguably the World’s top speech-to-text and artificial intelligence company, has lent its technology to MapmyIndia’s in-vehicle navigation devices. Unlike traditional navigation devices, which make it difficult to understand the name of the street or area due to the in-built “American accent,” Nuance will develop a technology that will give MapmyIndia devices an “Indian accent.” […]
The whole world may be going ga ga over mobile payments, but a survey by consulting firm KPMG may be enough to dampen the enthusiasm a bit. According to the international KPMG Mobile Payments Outlook survey of 1,000 executives in related fields around the World, most expect mobile payments to take four years to go […]
Economists and experts worrying of an impending economic slowdown caused by rising prices, but hiring managers in Indian companies are not, according to the latest hiring numbers from Naukri.com — India’s biggest hiring portal. The company noted a 4% rise in hiring activity in June compared to May and a 19% jump year on year. […]
After consolidating its position in the very top-end of the power-computing market, IBM has now moved to bring the power of mainframes to the mid-range. It announced the launch of a new “affordable” mainframe targeted at both the mid-end and the emerging markets, called the z114 system. In its announcement of mini mainframes for the […]
Despite the US’ official stand favoring an expansion of the UN Security Council, new diplomatic cables leaked by Wikileaks show how it was doing everything it could to delay or mould the reform process to its ends. According to them, the US delegation to the United Nations worked out a clear strategy to delay or […]
The lobbying by Anna Hazare and Co. seem to have produced some results, with the Bhartiya Janata Party officially supporting the major demands of the anti-corruption campaign. Clarifying the party’s stand, spokesperson Rajiv Pratap Rudy said there should be no confusion about BJP’s stand on major issues related to the formulation of the Lokpal bill. […]
IBM, the World’s largest IT company has expanded its IT services contract for Bharti Airtel’s telecom services in Africa, expanding it to provide “comprehensive end user services to Airtel employees.” The American firm already had, late last year, inked a deal to manage the “computing technology and services” for the operators’ network in 16 African […]
The Americans saw India as the biggest stumbling block in their attempts to achieve a compromise over the expansion of the UN Security Council to include new members. In diplomatic cables dating from 2007 — when the negotiations started gathering pace — to 2010, the US delegation to the UN variously characterised India as an […]
The family of the murdered Lucknow deputy chief medical officer (CMO) YS Sachan will move the Supreme Court tomorrow, requesting for a CBI inquiry into his mysterious death. Sachan was tortured and killed in a hospital in a jail in UP a few days ago, on the eve of being produced in Court. The doctor […]
Google has launched its “bus finder” service (Google Transit) in seven cities in India — Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai, Pune, Hyderabad and Ahmedabad. Users have to simply enter the name of the building or street that they want to reach on their Google Maps application on the mobile phone to get detailed instructions on how […]
UN negotiations are often dull, drab and devoid of drama. However, occasionally, like on September 15, 2008, they become the stage for high drama that can give any Hollywood potboiler a run for its money. The following incident, which may aptly be characterized as an all out diplomatic war, happened between two opposing groups of […]
Idea has won an interim stay on the Rs 250 crore fine imposed by the Department of Telecom for allegedly violating the terms of its mobile operator license. “The interim order has been granted on Idea’s plea against DoT’s demand notice issued to Idea in June ’11,” Idea said in a statement. The issue of […]
The draft note on India’s new ‘National Manufacturing Policy’ is expected to be ready soon as the current committee is likely to finish its deliberations in 10 days, India’s trade minister Anand Sharma said. The National Manufacturing policy is India’s belated attempt to catch up with China in manufacturing and stem the tide of imports […]
Two years before Japan, India, Brazil and Germany forced a showdown over admitting the four of them to the permanent member club of the UN Security Council, the Japanese had secretly approached the US with a proposal to admit just two new members. Going by the clues in the subsequent US diplomatic cables leaked by […]
The Supreme Court judgement on Justice Dinakaran’s objection to a Rajya Sabha inquiry committee clearly exposes the motive of the former Chief Justice of the Karnataka High Court. Indeed, Dinakaran, who filed an objection to the inclusion of a particular lawyer a year after he came to know of the lawyer’s presence on the committee, […]
