Mumbai: Accenture plans to hire about 1,00,000 people in FY16 and spend as much as $1 billion on acquisitions, as it invests in new technologies at a scale that far outstrips its Indian rivals. At its investor conference in New York on Wednesday, Accenture outlined its strategy for its financial year ending August 2016. “Last year we hired roughly 1,00,000 […]
» Read moreChennai: Flipkart is sending half a million postcards to people in small towns to participate in its ‘Big Billion Days’ sale scheduled for next week. The online major is taking the snail mail route to reach its message to places like Jhumri Telaiya in Jharkhand, Barmer in Rajasthan, Buxar in Bihar and Kargil in J&K. “This one-time exercise is our […]
» Read moreHyderabad: Filmmaker Gunasekhar’s dream project Rudramadevi that has Anushka Shetty in the lead, on Thursday got exemption from entertainment tax. An assurance to this effect was given by Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao when the director called on him a few hours ago. Mr. Gunasekhar and his family members, accompanied by producer-distributor ‘Dil’ Raju, met Mr. Rao at his camp office […]
» Read moreBEIJING: Rafael Nadal fought back from a set down to beat hard-hitting American Jack Sock and reach his first hardcourt semi-final in more than a year at the China Open on Friday. The Spanish great, scrapping to recover his form after a tough year, was frequently outgunned by Sock’s howitzer forehand but he dug deep to see off the world […]
» Read moreWASHINGTON: India’s leading global IT company Wipro has said it will provide new books to tens of thousands of children in need across five cities in North America. For this it has entered into a tie up with First Book, a non-profit social enterprise. Wipro and First Book will distribute 35,000 books to educators and programme leaders in 2015, serving […]
» Read moreVidya Balan’s love for sarees is quite evident. The actress is often seen sporting the most exotic sarees with aplomb. She carries off the nine yards with such elan that now a saree brand has approached her to endorse their line of sarees. What’s more, the actress will apparently be paid a whopping sum of Rs 13 crore for the […]
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