Infosys planning lay-offs?
By Aditya Mhatre at 28 January, 2009, 5:09 am
In a post earlier today, I wrote about the job cuts in the US and had speculated that cuts in Indian IT outsourcing firms might not be far away. Infosys has already announced that it would be placing around 5% of its work force under the scanner (whatever that means). Infosys currently employs around 1,00,000 [...]
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Satyam Fraud: 2 PwC auditors arrested
By Aditya Mhatre at 25 January, 2009, 12:51 am
In one of my earlier post, I had questioned the lack of action against PwC, Satyam’s Audit firm. And finally, 2 PwC partners who had signed the Satyam audit reports have been arrested by the Crime Investigation Department (CID) of the Andhra Pradesh police on Saturday on charges of conspiracy, failure to scrutinize records and [...]
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5 Best Free iPhone Apps
By Aditya Mhatre at 24 January, 2009, 12:02 pm
I recently upgraded the firmware on my iPhone update to version 2.2 and have just finished a deep dive into the App Store. I spent atleast 3 hours in the iPhone App store and wished that some one had created a list of all the great free apps in the store. So here it is - a list of top free iPhone applications.
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Infosys not to hire Satyam employees
By Aditya Mhatre at 9 January, 2009, 3:56 am
Infosys has reportedly asked its HR to refrain from hiring Satyam employees. I think it is important for companies like Infosys to be a bit more sensitive towards the Satyam employees who to say the least had no idea about how this week would change their lives.
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What do the culprit of Satyam fraud deserve
By Aditya Mhatre at 8 January, 2009, 5:47 am
The Satyam fraud revelation in an already bearish market has almost killed most of my belief in stock market. As tips to be a good investor, I was taught to study the books of the companies, check if the company has the A-listers of the corporate world as board members, a good external auditor, and [...]
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