Tag Archive | Bangalore
Invest in Bangalore? Buyer beware!
January 18, 2014 By V. Ganesh Bangalore is redefining the term “slumdog millionaire” with it’s exorbitant and artificially inflated housing costs combined with an unimaginably medival infrastructure. I can tell you about Mumbai, about how polluted, smelly, grimy, ugly, rude, overpriced, overcrowded, corrupt and increasingly unsafe it has become over the past three decades, but […]
IN DEFENSE OF E-COMMERCE
November 6, 2013 By V. Ganesh The Economic Times reported yesterday that brick and mortar retailers are crying foul as Flipkart kicks their unprofessional butts. One Bangalore retailer, Hari Rastogi, even wrote a letter to the Competition Commission of India accusing online retailers of “predatory pricing,” “skirting FDI laws,” etc. Here’s the link to the […]
Agony aunt for your computer
December 21, 2012 By V. Ganesh How many times have you fought with a schizophrenic computer, only to lose the battle due to lack of tech support? In Bangalore, employees in red and white t-shirts can be seen resolving laptops complaints of every stripe. eTechies.in, launched in April 2010 by Rohit Chaudhry (CEO), Siddharth Bhatia […]
HP opens support centre for clients in Bangalore
August 2, 2012 By V. Ganesh To deliver cloud, mobility and social networking services out of India, HP has opened a new two lakh sq. feet software development and support centre in Bangalore. The facility would support companies like Coke and other HP customers in areas such as ERP implementation, support, coding, cloud computing, mobility […]
MindTree profits double on forex gains, vertical focus
July 16, 2012 By V. Ganesh Bangalore-based IT exporter, MindTree, enjoyed superb quarterly results as it more than doubled its net profits to Rs 89 crore in the first quarter of this fiscal on a sequential basis. Revenues increased 36.2% to Rs 563 crore during the same period last year. The company gained Rs 8.6 […]
Huawei finds big opportunities in small enterprises
June 25, 2012 By V. Ganesh Huawei Enterprise expects to get about $120 million by 2015 from its new SME business arm. The enterprise-focused business arm of Chinese network equipment provider Huawei Telecommunications has rolled out a range of products such as video communications, telepresence equipment, video surveillance and gigabit switches and routers. The total […]
Bangalore babus ban midnight munching
June 25, 2012 By V. Ganesh With the IT sector suffering a somewhat extended slowdown, Bangalore tech workers encounter another unnecessary pang: Dinner curfew! Sounds insane but it’s true. As if the pollution, neglected infrastructure and increasingly dangerous commutes weren’t enough to make life miserable, Bangaloreans are now prohibited from shopping, eating, drinking and availing […]
Elcina, Vittal Innovation to launch design cluster
June 23, 2012 By V. Ganesh Industry body Elcina has partnered with Vittal Innovation City (VIC) to launch India’s first Electronic Systems Design and Manufacturing cluster in Karnataka. This cluster will be established in Ananthpur district, which is 117 km from Bangalore’s airport. This cluster will cover over 100 acres, out of a total 300 […]
Germans keen on Karnataka
June 19, 2012 By V. Ganesh German companies would like to increase their investments in Karnataka. According to Dr. Ingo Karsten, Consul General of the Federal Republic of Germany, companies such as Siemens, Bosch, Bayer, Airbus, Metro and SAP are looking to invest in the State across various sectors including IT, manufacturing, aerospace, automotive components […]
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