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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 [...]

USCIS to accept H1B applications from April 1 – fiscal 2011 H1B

The USCIS to start accepting the applications for H-1B visas from April one for the fiscal 2011. H-1B is the most sought visa by Indians.  In a statement, the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) said it will accept petitions for 65,000 H-1B visas as mandated by the Congress.

The first 20,000 H-1B petitions filed on [...]

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 [...]

Interesting Internet Statistics 2009

The video speaks it all….
Internet 2009 Statistics

Good news to Young Indian Entrepreneurs or startup owners – US StartUp Visa Act

Indians are very good in hunting for opportunities abroad, especially tech-savvy community dreams their journey always towards the West. There are multiple reasons, people move to foreign countries and hunting for jobs,

Currency conversion – Money Minting….
Lucrative packages when compared to India
Opportunities are wide open which is not limited to working in a garage for silicon [...]

Wipro Greenware : 100% recyclable & toxin-free PC

We all know that we have been eating up the natural resources, and have been taking for granted all that is given to us by nature. But, its never too late and people have started consciously taking steps to stop, if not reverse, any further damage. Discussions on global warming, carbon credits, save water, save [...]

IPL 3 2010: Business lessons to be learnt

We wrote about the business of Indian Premier league here and that the top B-schools have accepted it as a very good business model here. And now, the third season of the Indian Premier league is here. Hence, we thought we would try to analyze why is IPL such a huge success and what are [...]

PayPal operations in India suspended by RBI

Operations of Pay-Pal, the world-wide e-commerce business website for payments & money transfers over the Internet, have been suspended in India by Reserve Bank Of India (RBI).
As per Indian Govt. Law, any compnay that provides money transfer services in the country, needs to be registered with RBI. But PayPal has not registered with RBI. So, [...]

Amitabh Bachchan creates history again: Creates the world’s first voice blog

Decades back Amitabh made history with Sholay, and his magic has continued for decades. Couple of years back, he started the trend of blogging in the Indian film industry. He has been an ardent blogger since then, letting the readers know every bit of what is happening in his day to day life. Right from [...]

Google continues its battle against Microsoft : Now, with an online business software store

Google has been and is continuing trying to beat Microsoft in every venture of its. Be it, operating systems, documents, search engine, e-mail, instant messenger or mobile, the two software giants have been bull fighting in a war for tech supremacy.  Continuing its efforts in this direction, Google has announced the launch of its online [...]