Dell India has laid off around 70 people in the Dell software group (DSG) that was set up some nine months ago in Bengaluru. DSG, which has nearly 110 people in India spread across Bengaluru and Hyderabad, was expected to become a 400-500 people strong unit in Bengaluru, but the plans were drastically scaled back following Dell’s $67 billion acquisition […]
» Read moreIndia’s third-largest software exporter Wipro rolled out an ambitious pilot exercise where it ditched its traditional ‘bell curve’ appraisal system for a large majority of its 170,000-odd employees. The trigger for this exercise was clear. Employees, mid-level executives and top managers needed to be more accountable for the company’s performance, which in recent years has lagged larger peers such as Infosys, […]
» Read moreMaking a CV is probably the most boring part of the applying for a job, but a necessary evil nevertheless, but even that can become a fun task if you have the creative flair. That’s exactly what happened when an IIT Kharagpur student recently applied for a product management vacancy at Indian e-commerce Flipkart. The IIT graduate, Aakash Neeraj Mittal, […]
» Read moreMicrosoft has acquired Xamarin, which works towards creating software tools for making mobile apps for Android, iOS and Windows platforms. The company has not yet revealed the financial details of the deal. Xamarin was founded in 2011 and it creates tools which enable mobile developers to write code in C# and then run it as native code for all the three […]
» Read moreThe number of internet users in India would reach 500 million by 2017, with as many as 400 million of them getting online through mobile phone, a senior official of search engine giant Google has said. “There are 350 million internet users in India, of which 152 million are mobile users. This number is projected to increase to 500 million […]
» Read moreIfosys has appointed Michael Pesch as chief executive officer of Infosys Consulting Holding (formerly Infosys Lodestone). In his role, Michael will focus on expanding the reach of Infosys consultants and experts in digital transformation and design-led innovation, as well as increasing Infosys’ expertise in large-scale SAP programs. He will also serve as the regional head for the DACH countries, bringing […]
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