business

Ambani beats Mittal on world’s richest list

Oil magnate Mukesh Ambani and steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal made it to the top 10 on the 2010 Forbes list of world’s billionaires.  Ambani ranked fourth with $29 billion and Mittal ranked fifth with $28.7 billion on the Forbes list of billionaires.  Mexican telecom tycoon Carlos Slim Helu topped the list, with $53.5 billion, $500 [...]

Attrition peaking in Indian IT industry

We spoke here about an improving job market in the IT scenario that attrition, hikes, promotions and retention bonuses are back. In a striking proof to the same, one of the country’s major IT firms is seeing attrition at the rate of 4000 per month against an average of 1200 it usually sees. 4000 a [...]

Ford Figo – The ‘cool’ car : Price, Review & Test drive

We had written here when Ford unveiled its ‘cool’ compact car for India, Figo. This has now been launched and is available for the Indian car buyers. It is built on the same platform as Fiesta, and has been built specifically to fulfill the needs of small car buyers in India. Ford wants to make [...]

Air India tickets at discount

Air India has been under pressure to perform and has been in debt. As written here earlier, Air India is trying to leave no stone unturned to get the bail-out amount from Govt of India. It has been trying hard to attract more flyers on its flights and has announced a 10% discount on [...]

Mobile Number portability will be possible by May: Telecordia to do it

Mobile number portability has been a key focus article in moneymint and we have been tracking its various developments here, here, here and here. Now the latest news is that Telecordia, the US based telecom solution has got the nod from the Govt. especially the home ministry to set up its shop in India. As [...]

Cloud Computing – Part I – Why enterprises hesitate?

I have worked extensively with Salesforce.com (SF) users across the globe – enterprises of all sizes from startups to Fortune 100 companies and in the process I have come across some very creative ways of leveraging Cloud Computing.  Though far and few, these entrepreneurs and technology heads have inspired me by the way they push [...]

PepsiCo India launches Health Conscious Cafe

PepsiCo has launched health conscious cafe stalls to state that it is an healthy food company.  The food and the beverages major PepsiCo India is in the process of launching its own cafe outlets in New Delhi and four other cities by the end of the year.

PepsiCo launched the first such cafe in [...]

Fresh bidding for 2 new IPL team franchise – rules relaxed – Kareena Kapoor, Saif Ali Khan in bidding fray now

..strict rules made many of the above interested parties to back out. It was said that on March 8th the bidding tenders would be opened and the 2 new IPL team owners would be announced. But, it is heard that the IPL committee has received only 3 bids so far (they expected at least 20) and one was disqualified by late submission Bidders so far : 1. Saif Ali Khan + Kareena Kapoor + Karishma Kapoor + Videocon + Panchshil Group from Pune 2. Adani Enterprise 3. JP Group (bid disqualified citing late submission) …

India – More women workforce to join Corporate this year

Recruitment experts say that more women are likely to join the corporate workforce in the country this year, with overall hiring prospects are picking up and companies increasingly believing in maintaining a healthy male-female ratio.

IT services firm ITC Infotech’s HR Head Anand Talwar said, “Yes, more women are expected to join this year into the [...]

facebook.com turned 6 – 70% of growth from outside US

Facebook.com turned 6 on 04-Mar-10.  The company claims to have reached 400 million users – with 200 million added just in the last one year.
Mark Zuckerberg on facebook’s 6th b’day:
Facebook began six years ago today as a product that my roommates and I built to help people around us connect easily, share information and [...]