Positive long term growth prospects and stable short term returns for the Indian private equity market-Deloitte
The private equity landscape in India is becoming increasingly sophisticated and relative interest in India on a global scale has grown significantly renewing confidence in the country post downturn. Deloitte today announced the results of their Private Equity Survey for India. The survey covers 31 of India’s top Private Equity and Venture Capital investors and is considered a barometer for India’s investment climate.
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Positive long term growth prospects and stable short term returns for the Indian private equity market-Deloitte
Hon’ble Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, Mr. Konijeti Rosaiah inaugurated Brandix India Apparel City (BIAC), which is located within the Andhra Pradesh Special Economic Zone (APSEZ) in Visakhapatnam at a grand ceremony held today
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Chief Minister Inaugurates Brandix India Apparel City
The Apeejay Education Society, with over 40 years of Excellence in education, announces the opening of Apeejay Stya University at Sohna, Gurgaon. Sponsored by the Apeejay Stya Education Foundation, the University is currently located in a sprawling picturesque campus with the state-of-the-art infrastructure
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Apeejay Education Society announces the opening of Apeejay Stya University
~Democracy: Challenges of Consensus Building in India~ Dainik Jagran, world’s No.1 daily is all set to host the third edition of the prestigious ‘JAGRAN FORUM’. The forum aims at giving platform for policy makers, political analysts, those who work on institutional issues, the media, representatives of civil society, etc to interact and to express themselves in participatory and supportive environment, with a view to developing common understanding of the way forward
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Dainik Jagran to host the third edition of Jagran Forum
A consecutive win for the Company for introducing path breaking innovation in Car rental domain In a glittering ceremony held in New Delhi, Carzonrent (India) Pvt. Ltd., India’s largest personal ground transportation company, was awarded the prestigious Bird Express TravelWorld Awards for Excellence in operations under the Best Car/Bus Operators category. The award was given to honor Carzonrent’s initiatives for successfully introducing and implementing innovative technology in the car rental domain, resulting in growth of business and improved efficiency in operations.
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Carzonrent conferred upon the coveted Bird Express TravelWorld Awards for Excellence in operations under the Best Car/Bus Operators category
Largest global network of Australians and alumni abroad, Advance, is hosting an ‘Emerging Leaders India Summit’ on May 3 and 4, 2010, in India’s capital, New Delhi.
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Leading Australian diaspora organisation ‘Advance’ to Host Emerging Leaders Summit in India
Tata Motors’ total sales (including exports) of Tata commercial and passenger vehicles in April 2010 were 57,202 vehicles, a growth of 52% over 37,518 vehicles sold in April 2009. The company’s domestic sales of Tata commercial and passenger vehicles for April 2010 were 54,065 nos., a 49% growth over 36,257 nos. sold in April last year
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Tata Motors April sales at 57,202 nos
Many of you probably know about the Deepwater Horizon explosion and resulting oil spill off the coast of Louisiana almost two weeks ago. On Thursday, Department of Homeland Security Secretary, Janet Napolitano, declared the accident a ” Spill of National Significance ” and members of the President’s Administration traveled to the Gulf Coast to inspect cleanup efforts today . The Governors of Louisiana and Florida have declared states of emergency in response to the dangerous effects the oil may have on their respective state coasts.
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Deepwater Horizon Incident
Last week our guest blogger, Erin Pierce, wrote about Making Every Day Earth Day . In keeping with the theme of doing good things for our planet and going green, my Friday blog is dedicated to trees. The last Friday in the month of April is designated as National Arbor Day .
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National Arbor Day
Making data protection more intelligent, policy-driven and easy-to-manage while ensuring information is protected at rest, in use and in motion Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) today announced it has signed definitive agreements to acquire PGP Corporation and GuardianEdge Technologies, Inc., two privately-held leaders in the email and data encryption market, which will extend its ability to help customers secure and manage their most critical information. Under the terms of the agreements, Symantec will acquire PGP Corporation for a purchase price of approximately $300 million in cash and GuardianEdge for a purchase price of approximately $70 million in cash
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Symantec to Offer Broadest Data Protection Capabilities with Acquisition of PGP Corporation and GuardianEdge
New armoured vehicle contracts for BAE Systems in Finland and Norway have taken land sales to Nordic countries above $215 million in the past two months, underpinning the strength of the company’s export portfolio. The company has won a contract to supply 16 RG32M mine-hardened patrol vehicles to the Finland Defence Force, worth more than €6 million ($8.1 million). In addition, it has also received a $7.2 million amendment to an existing contract to enhance the propulsion and mobility of Norwegian M113 vehicles
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BAE Systems Wins New Land Contracts in Nordic Markets
Revenue of $240.0 million, up 14 percent year-over-year GAAP net income of $40.9 million, or $0.22 per diluted share, up 10 percent year-over-year Fully taxed normalized net income* of $66.0 million, or $0.35 per diluted share, up 14 percent year-over-year Board of Directors authorizes $150 million extension of share repurchase program Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), the leader in powering video, dynamic transactions and enterprise applications online, today reported financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2010.
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Akamai Reports First Quarter 2010 Financial Results
Team Rediscover Punjab declared winners Months of sweat and efforts culminated into victory as seven enthusiastic groups from FLAME (Foundation for Liberal And Management Education) presented their findings for the ‘Discover India Program’. Undisputedly the most deserving team Rediscover Punjab won the trophy and was awarded a budget for Rs.5,00,000 for an International project by Dr
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FLAME’s ‘Discover India Program’ boosts liberal education
AGM welcomes government’s intention to regulate At its Annual General Meeting today in New Delhi, the Public Relations Consultants Association of India (PRCAI) reiterated its commitment to high standards and guidelines pertaining to the working of PR agencies and consultancies.
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PRCAI re-affirms its commitment to ethics and transparency
As we inch closer to summer, all I can think about is the awesome vacations I want to take. I picture myself spending weeks at the beach, lounging in the sun, listening to the waves roll in
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Summer Vacations on a Budget
Service providers in telecom space, particularly small to medium sized are contracting out their operations to Managed Services providers, essentially vendors out there. There must be so many business justifications in doing so, but are the service providers accepting their failure to run the operations effectively
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Vendors shadowing service providers through managed services!
Public figures including politicians are switching to social networks to keep on posting and tweeting their views and ideas about the ongoing national and local issues. This is really bringing politicians and leaders close to their people
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Social networks to change the Indian polity
People are always asking us questions about scams and fraud . There are many types of financial fraud like mortgage scams that target the elderly, Ponzi schemes, tax fraud that steals money from our nation’s coffers, predatory lending that discriminates against vulnerable communities, and credit card fraud
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Avoid Financial Fraud
I don’t remember those baking soda and vinegar volcano eruptions in elementary school lasting quite this long. As you probably already know, the recent eruptions at Eyjafjallajökull have disrupted travelers around the world over the last couple of weeks. On Friday the ash from the eruptions caused airport closures in Iceland , Sweden and Norway
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Volcanoes and Air Travel
More than a year ago, we know PoE vendors, mainly Microsemi, were working on getting their PoE into different network nodes including the laptops so that they get the power directly from the ethernet port making the AC/DC supply redundant. This could mean a lot of saving on energy and could probably reduce the cost of devices as no more power supply was required. With 802.3at, the aim was to have devices powered through ethernet that consume around 40 watts of power.
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PoE and decoders