Wolfram Alpha Review
By Aditya Mhatre at 20 May, 2009, 4:52 am
Wolfram Alpha (WA) launched last Friday with a lot of people saying a lot of things about it. It was being positioned as a google killer even before it had launched. The website says that the objective of WA is to make world’s knowledge computable which in itself is bit vague. I think, Information is [...]
Read More >>3 reasons why Tech Mahindra - Satyam buyout makes sense
By Aditya Mhatre at 13 April, 2009, 10:01 am
Finally, after 3 months and 6 people behind bars, Bidding for Satyam ended and Tech Mahindra won the race. Tech Mahindra offered Rs 58 per share (total - Rs.1756 crores) for a 31% stake in Satyam. It’s not very often that a buy out of this maginitude makes so much sense. Here are a few [...]
Read More >>Future of competition in the Indian DTH market
By Aditya Mhatre at 7 March, 2009, 11:22 pm
The DTH market in India is relatively nascent but is getting crowded very quickly. In the past 3 months, two solid competitors like Airtel, Reliance have entered the market and Space TV, a Star TV venture, is awaiting government approval. The future of competition in the DTH market is not going to be in the [...]
Read More >>TCS hints at lay offs
By Aditya Mhatre at 26 February, 2009, 9:01 am
TCS CEO, Mr Ramadorai announced today that there would be no salary hikes and that employees should expect job cuts. Just a few days back TCS had announced that it had put 1000 employees “under the scanner” so this shouldn’t be a big surprise. A similar announcement was made by Infosys when they put [...]
Read More >>Google makes up for Gmail downtime
By Aditya Mhatre at 25 February, 2009, 10:08 am
You might have noticed that Gmail was down for several hours a yesterday and for some it might have been a welcome relief from the email clutter in their inbox. But the problem is that Gmail services businesses as well and an email outgage might turn into a big problem for a small business.
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