The Hindu Business Line : Friday, July 07, 2006

STORAGE
TidalData's storage product for SMBs
TidalData, a storage start-up funded by Mr Kumar Malavalli, co-founder and former CTO of Brocade Communications, plans to raise about $4-6 million to fund its growth initiatives. "The company was in talks with a couple of venture ... More

TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Canopy for village schools
Finding teachers... the digital way. More

Airtel launches fixed wireless services
Uses GSM technology; offers both pre-paid and post-paid schemes More

PowerGrid gets NLD telecom licence
To provide services to corporate and government agencies. More

SOFTWARE
Indiasoft Tech to market simulation tool
Targets manufacturing firms More

CSS Group sets up arm to service Indian clients
To offer specific software development, testing facilities More

Take Solutions hopes to treble turnover
Take Solutions, a software products and services provider, hopes to triple its turnover to $ 60 million (Rs 270 crore) for the year ending March 31, 2007, according to its Managing Director, Mr Sridharan Sivan. The Singapore-based company with ... More

Sierra Atlantic plans expansion
Sierra Atlantic, a technology solutions provider, on Thursday announced the expansion of their financial service group. As part of their expansion, Sierra Atlantic will strengthen their financial services offerings in the areas ... More

INTERNET
Technology-enabled learning for capacity building
Unlike the conventional mode, the technology-enabled model is one-student-many teachers More

Testing jobs portal launched
Thatavarti Technologies, a Hyderabad-based software testing services provider, has announced the launch of a testing jobs portal www.jobs4testing.com here ... More

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS
EXL Service acquires Inductis
EXL Service Holdings Inc., an offshore business process outsourcing company on Thursday announced the acquisition of Inductis, a strategy and analytics company serving the financial services and insurance industries. As a result of the ... More

INTERVIEW
Intend to improve on succession process: Premji
The Wipro Chairman, Mr Azim Premji, is set to take his flagship company, Wipro, to new heights. This much is obvious, after the company made several recent acquisitions. He has plans to open BPOs in other places across India like Vizag, Mysore, ... More

SOCIETY & DEVELOPMENT
Tech grant
MR ADRIAN KOCH, Senior Vice-President, Personal Systems Group, Asia Pacific & Japan, Hewlett-Packard, handing over a plaque to Mr D. Vishwanathan, Vice-Chancellor, Anna University, on the university being selected for the HP technology for ... More

VENTURE CAPITAL
InSilica raises $18m through second round funding
Plans to utilise the funds to build its IP portfolio More

IT-ENABLED SERVICES
India still hot favourite for call centre biz: Study
Manufacturing, financial and outsourcing companies are still heading to India, Malaysia, and Singapore, to manage their call centre businesses in Asia, according to a report released by Kelly Services today. A study titled `The Asian Contact ... More

PEOPLE
Ex-Nokia MD to join Actis
Mr Sanjeev Sharma, who earlier this year resigned as the Managing Director of Nokia India, will be joining private equity firm Actis. Interestingly, Mr Sharma would be leading the Actis team on the Phoenix Lamps project. Actis is in the ... More

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