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Panasonic felicitates young talent under its Scholarship Program 2013

Panasonic, a global leader in innovation and technology, today announced the recipients of its prestigious Scholarship Program 2013. Promising students from renowned institutions like IIT Madras, IIT Guwahati, P.V.G College of Engineering & Technology, Pune and Jaipur National University were felicitated with scholarships to pursue higher studies in universities in Japan. With the fifth year…

Intel appoints Kumud Srinivasan as President of Indian Operations

Intel, has appointed  Kumud Srinivasan, as President of its Indian operations. Srinivasan, takes over from Praveen Vishakantaiah who would be moving to a new role as General Manager of Client Solutions and Technology group in the PC Client Group of Intel , USA. Kumud Srinivasan, is an Intel veteran and has been with the company…

KPMG in India announces Richard Rekhy as the new CEO

Richard Rekhy has been appointed as the new CEO of the Indian firm succeeding Russell Parera who led the firm for six years. Richard has been with KPMG in India for more than eight years and has held many leadership positions in the firm. Richard in his previous role as the Head of Advisory at…

Yahoo ! hires Chief Operating Officer

Yahoo! Inc. has hired Henrique de Castro as chief operating officer (COO). The COO position will be reporting directly to Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer, and will be responsible for strategic and operational management of Yahoo!’s sales, operations, media and business development worldwide. Henrique , has been working with Google Inc. as vice president of Google’s…

Polaris Appoints Jitin Goyal as President and Head of Worldwide Sales and Account Management

  Polaris Financial Technology Ltd. (POLS.BO), a leading global Financial Technology Company, today announced Jitin Goyal as President and Head of Worldwide Sales and Account Management. Prior to this role, Jitin served as a Consultant and Senior Anchor for the Strategic Outsourcing Business at Polaris. In the new role, Jitin will report into the Chairman…

Reckitt Benckiser appoints Akhil Chandra as General Manager- India

RB appoints Akhil Chandra as General Manager for India with immediate effect. Akhil has joined us from Glaxo SmithKline Consumer Healthcare, where he was posted as Vice President and General Manager- Asia. Akhil reports to Chander Mohan Sethi, SVP Regional Director South East Asia and he will be based at the head office in Gurgaon.…

V Balakrishnan resigns from Infosys as CFO

Infosys CFO, and veteran of over 20 years V Balakrishnan has resigned as the company’s CFO (Source: ET).  He had joined the company in 1991, and has been with the company in various roles over these years. He had been appointed as the CFO in 2006. As the CFO he has been responsible for Corporate…

Wipro Limited Appoints Vyomesh Joshi to its Board

Wipro Limited has appointed Mr. Vyomesh Joshi, a well-respected information technology industry veteran and influencer, to its board of directors with immediate effect. Mr. Joshi will serve as an independent member on the board and will bring to Wipro a wealth of experience, having spent over three decades in the industry. He was until recently…

CA Technologies- Leader in Cloud Systems Management Software

CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA) has been named the market share leader in the worldwide cloud systems management software market by IDC, a leading IT market research and advisory firm IDC. According to the Worldwide Cloud Systems Management Software 2011 Vendor Shares: Market Moves Beyond Self Service* market analysis report, CA Technologies owns 18.2 percent of…

Gartner Says Asia/Pacific BPO Industry To Reach $9.5 Billion In 2016

The Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) business process outsourcing (BPO) market is forecast to reach $9.5 billion in 2016, up from $5.9 billion in 2011, according to Gartner, Inc..In 2012, BPO in Asia/Pacific is on pace to total $6.45 billion. “The Asia/Pacific BPO market is still relatively underdeveloped and underexploited (with the exception of Australia and New…

Yahoo! Names Ken Goldman as Chief Financial Officer

Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) has announced that Ken Goldman will join the company as chief financial officer (CFO), effective Oct. 22. In this role, he will be responsible for Yahoo!’s global finance functions including financial planning and analysis, controllership, tax, treasury, and investor relations. Goldman will report directly to Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer. “Ken is…

CareerBuilder And Dunkin’ Donuts Survey Reveals Professions That Need Coffee The Most

CANTON, Mass. and CHICAGO, Sept. 25, 2012 — National Coffee Day is Saturday, September 29, and according to a new survey commissioned jointly by Dunkin’ Donuts and CareerBuilder®, food preparation and service workers are the professions that need coffee the most, followed by scientists and sales representatives. The survey results also show that coffee plays…

Puneet Chhatwal Appointed as New CEO at Steigenberger

The Supervisory Board of Steigenberger Hotels AG has appointed Puneet Chhatwal as new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Management Board. From January 1 , 2013 onwards and together with Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Matthias Heck , Chhatwal will hold responsibility for the hotel business based in Frankfurt/Main. Steigenberger Hotels AG is very pleased to…

Wipro sets up 2000 seat delivery center in Vishakhapatnam

Wipro Technologies, the Global Information Technology, Consulting and Outsourcing business of Wipro Limited (NYSE: WIT), has set up a 2,000 seat delivery center in Vishakhapatnam, in Andhra Pradesh.  The center, which is currently operational with about 100 employees, will ramp up to more than 300 over the next three months. The campus was inaugurated by…