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Facebook is the top social networking site in India, topples orkut

By Natraj Muthukrishnan at 26 August, 2010, 1:07 pm

Inspite of the umpteen number of controversies surrounding it, FB continues to spiral its way to the top. … However, in July 2010, FB received 20.87 million unique visitors from India versus about 19.87 million unique visitors from India for orkut, thus becoming the top social networking site in the country…Here is what alexa has to say about top sites in India..

Jobs in Indian Railways: 2 lakh posts to be filled thru railway recruitment board exam soon

By Natraj Muthukrishnan at 26 August, 2010, 8:44 am

After a multi-crore job scam derailed its recruitment process, the railways is now preparing to launch a massive recruitment drive to fill around two lakh vacancies, including around 90,000 safety-related posts.

Free calls to US and Canada: Google launching calling facility through gtalk

By Natraj Muthukrishnan at 26 August, 2010, 8:35 am

making a call through its service works like a normal phone in that a user could click on the “call phone” option in their chat buddy list in Gmail and type in the number or enter a contact’s name. Calls that cost money will be charged from an online account that users can top up with a credit card.

Buying desktop in India: Dell and not HP is the leader!

By Natraj Muthukrishnan at 21 August, 2010, 9:46 am

Surprise is the order these days! After IBM became the second largest IT company in India , it is time for a change in the hardware business in India. Dell toppled HP as the No.1 in the PC market in the country which was undisputed No.1 for the past five years.Dell’s momentum picked upever since [...]

Jobs for Engineering graduates in IT sector: Are we ready?

By Natraj Muthukrishnan at 19 August, 2010, 9:13 am

In a country where becoming an engineer is a household dream in all the houses and where engineering college open up daily, it has become a case of quantity doing the talking over quality. Yes, we produce engineers from every corner of the country but are they employable? A recent survey suggests that only one [...]

IBM is the second largest IT company in INDIA!!

By Natraj Muthukrishnan at 18 August, 2010, 7:57 pm

It is known to all that TCS is the largest IT employer and also largest private sector employer with more than 1.6 lakh employees on board and still counting as is the season now. But whats surprising is the second slot in this list. While all were expecting Infosys, the second largest company to be [...]

3 idiots business mantra for success

By Natraj Muthukrishnan at 6 August, 2010, 2:29 pm

We spoke here about the way Indian movies marketing mantra is changing and how movie making has become more of a business. It is indeed becoming more and more professional way of money making. From being an art now it has become a business. One film which is a striking example of the same, about [...]

IT Companies are now strict with their notice period

By Natraj Muthukrishnan at 28 July, 2010, 10:17 am

In an industry which is facing one of the worst attrition ever, companies have started thinking of ways to prevent the attrition from affecting the business. Of late, companies have started asking employees to serve their full notice period before leaving the company. Notice period for employees generally refers to the amount of time specified [...]

Make my trip to get listed in NASDAQ, $100 million IPO

By Natraj Muthukrishnan at 28 July, 2010, 9:57 am

After being chosen as one of the top 10 companies to work for in India, India’s largest travel company is all set to be listed in NASDAQ. The firm plans to raise up to $100 million (about Rs 465 crore) through an initial public offering in the US. The number of shares to be offered [...]

UK Govt. budget cut spoils the IT party

By Natraj Muthukrishnan at 24 July, 2010, 9:11 am

There have been talks about UK govt. cutting on the budget and ever since IT cos which have projects from UK have been troubled. At least 35 big UK government IT outsourcing contracts are potentially at risk of renegotiation, including the Tata Constancy Services’ £600 million pension administration contract, as a result of the cuts [...]