(Update – Shivani Sud wins Intel Science Talent Search Competition.) Eight Desi students have made it to the finals of the Intel Science Talent contest. Of the eight students, five are girls and they submitted projects in diverse areas including Bioinformatics, Biochemistry, Mathematics, Medicine, Physics, Zoology, Earth and Planetary Science and Chemistry. The students are […]
Diligenta, a subsidiary of Tata Consultancy Services, has snagged a contract to deliver Business Process Outsourcing services to support Sun Life Financial of Canada UK’s (SLF UK) operations. Expected to commence in May 2008, the services are estimated to be worth euro 100 million (over US$200 million) over the life of the contract. Diligenta has […]
Update: Amit Kapur Leaving MySpace Rupert Murdoch’s social networking site MySpace has named Amit Kapur Chief Operating Officer. Kapur will be responsible for leading development and implementation of all global business operations. Amit Kapur MySpace is said to have 110 million users worldwide. Kapur will also oversee growth and expansion of MySpace partnerships across the upcoming […]
Sanjay Mehrotra is a co-founder of Silicon Valley-based SanDisk, manufacturer of removable storage cards, flash drives and MP3 players. SanDisk’s products are used in digital cameras, multi-function mobile phones, USB flash drives, digital audio/video players and other digital consumer devices Before becoming President and COO of SanDisk in April 2006, Sanjay worked as Director of memory […]
This is a story that could happen only in India. Apparently, 500 poor people in the North Indian city of Gurgaon have lost their kidneys to an unscrupulous gang of greedy doctors who removed the kidneys and sold them to rich Indians and foreigners. Describing the literal theft of the kidneys of poor folks, the […]
Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit, who just butchered 4,200 jobs the other day for so-called expense management reasons, got about $26.7 million in stock (1.094 million shares) on January 22, 2008, according to the bank’s regulatory filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Vikram Pandit also received options on three million Citigroup shares, with strike prices ranging from […]