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March 2013 / 46 C-EX/ Addwiser++
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. Albert Einstein
ECO-PRODUCTS BRIEF
Gravity Light !! http://bit.ly/14dUY6U (Enviro Gadget) 9 Energy Efficient Home Gadgets for 2013 http://bit.ly/YooXnr (Clean Technica)
Panasonic BG-BL01/ Solar Lantern - Charger
NFOLIO TEAM: Chief Coordinator: Subin Amarnathan/ Coordinator: Smita Philip
Consultants: Monika Singh, Saloni. FEEDBACK: [email protected]
HEALTH BRIEF
20 Quick and Easy Ways to Get Healthier Fast (Health) http://bit.ly/Y5AzfV
20 tips for better sleep (WebMD) http://bit.ly/c23BAn
Worst Foods for your heart (Huffington) http://huff.to/X2uQUE
JOB BRIEF
Practise Head B’lore/ MNC. 12+yrs exp.
Digital Marketing Leader 11-18yrs of exp
Bangalore/ Top retail co. (Virtualization)
VP Sales with 2+yrs exp for Noida, for an ISP
Manager Black Belt (Appliccation) with 8+
yrs exp for B’lore/ Chennai/ Pune location. Mention job title in the subject & send your updated resumes to: [email protected]
O i l IT-ITES NEWS
YOU SHOULDN”T
M I S S
Google buys voice & image recognition start-up (Times Of India) http://goo.gl/fiQce
Yahoo goes social, teams with Facebook for site revamp (Reuters) http://reut.rs/ZgnhMk
VMware Buys Startup Virsto To Fend Off Microsoft (Business Insider) http://read.bi/Z7WNQR
Wipro, Axeda ink deal for M2M solutions (Times Of India) http://goo.gl/nt65v
Infosys inks deal with National ICT Australia (Times Of India) http://goo.gl/QGLxR and also bags BMW contract for infra management services (Economic Times) http://goo.gl/ADc5M
IBM to offer cloud services to Fullerton India (Times Of India) http://goo.gl/JDdMb
Who’s Hiring/Firing?
Google cuts another 1,200 Motorola jobs (CNN Money) http://cnnmon.ie/10qxryv
GM to open fourth U.S. tech center, hire 1,000 people (Reuters) http://reut.rs/Wv78pu
JPMorgan to cut up to 17,000 jobs by end of 2014 (Times Of India) http://goo.gl/0wKZ8
Hexaware hiring 85 people for its Mexico centre (Times Of India) http://goo.gl/rIAU2
Infosys to hire 200 people in US, expand in Atlanta (Times Of India) http://goo.gl/Ue195
Capgemini to increase India headcount by 6,000 (Economic Times) http://goo.gl/aMRQ5
Other updates
Yahoo to shut down seven products, including BlackBerry app http://bit.ly/ZKcV7R (Guardian)
AOL picks Susan Lyne to head up its brands, including TechCrunch (Reuters) http://reut.rs/15Tci04
Alibaba names low-profile exec as CEO (CNN money) http://cnnmon.ie/XhoN4L
Wipro's fastest growing business unit (Times of India) http://goo.gl/CIeF6
Adobe shuts down desktop browser testing service BrowserLab without warning, blames rise of mobile devices http://tnw.co/Z3nByG (The Next Web)
Hexaware opens delivery centre in Mexico (Times Of India) http://goo.gl/Xt3Je
Samsung Appoints Two New CEOs (Mashable) http://on.mash.to/XD8I9M
Addwiser Pick of the Month
Want Productive Employees? Treat Them Like Adults
(Harvard Business Review)
http://bit.ly/YaSOh7
Marissa Mayer: Yahoos can no longer work from home (CNN Money)
http://goo.gl/Ry29i
Indian-American Sunder Pichai made head of Google Android (Indian Express)
http://goo.gl/2fXsC
Industry Updates (IT-ITES)
Facebook Working on Incorporating the Hashtag (WSJ) http://on.wsj.com/13V3S8Z
Gates, Zuckerberg champion computer programming in new nonprofit video (Reuters) http://reut.rs/13lP9Up
'Web-services is next revolution, India can become front-end' (Economic Times) bit.ly/119HDI4
How it will feel to wear Google Glass (CNN) http://bit.ly/15xuqfP
Launches & Innovation
EMC and VMware promise growth, outline Pivotal plan (Reuters) http://reut.rs/ZmhvIZ
Pinterest offers new tool, lays base for money-making features (Reuters) http://reut.rs/WEWI6P
Twitter to launch music service later this month http://reut.rs/15Tci04
(Guardian)
Microsoft releases Internet Explorer 10 browser for more users (Reuters) http://reut.rs/YvGjh9
Intel takes big step in chip foundry business (Reuters) http://reut.rs/WeRIp7
IBM launches enhanced mobile services offering (Reuters) http://reut.rs/W51eeB
Apple releases OS X 10.8.3, adds Windows 8 Boot Camp support and iSight scanning of iTunes gift cards http://tnw.co/Z7wSWk (The Next Web)
Quick Heal announces Total Security for Mac (Times Of India) http://goo.gl/Hf5fp
Wipro, Microsoft launch AssureHealth platform (Times Of India) http://goo.gl/l7Mhj
Infosys launches tool for data analysis(Times Of India) http://goo.gl/sGHvP
LinkedIn to buy news app Pulse: Report (Times Of India) http://goo.gl/0Jg0k
Adobe launches creative cloud offering in India (Economic Times) http://goo.gl/rrFTX
Deals & Expansions
Exclusive: EMC, IBM eye web hosting company SoftLayer- sources (Reuters) http://reut.rs/WKM12F
PayPal buys mobile app developer Duff Research (Reuters) http://reut.rs/ZmLEb0
Facebook buys Microsoft ad technology platform (Reuters) http://reut.rs/YDWFEA
Samsung buys stake in struggling Sharp (CNN Money) http://cnnmon.ie/10qxryv
HP sells webOS operating system to LG Electronics (Reuters) http://reut.rs/Wf5acO
ITC Infotech ties up with Camouflage Software (Times Of India) http://goo.gl/1KZL0
Wipro Infotech wins three-year contract from Emirates NBD (Economic Times) http://goo.gl/RH6cK
Google Reader shutting down on July 1 (CNN)
http://bit.ly/YcezjP