Judy Balan wears many hats, single mother, advertising professional, avid blogger, playwright, and now a novelist. She quit her job to be a full time parent and to focus on her writing. Her book, Two Fates, which began as a spoof on IIT trained iconic author Chetan Bhagat’s Two States has proved it can stand on its own by going in for a reprint within a month of its coming out.More...

The booming IT industry in India has empowered many Tech Specialists to make more time to pursue their passions. Techgoss catches up with Bangalore born and raised Dr. Anu Vaidyanathan who has earned a PhD in Electrical Engineering in record time, hacked Linux and open source at IBM,  taught at IIT and IIM – all while becoming the most successful Indian female Triathlete ever.More...

US startup uTest.com was launched in 2007 with the aim of testing software for clients for a fee.  Utest has a base of thousands of permanent and freelance testers (many from India) servicing more than 400 clients around the world.  In Dec, 2011, uTest announced that they had received $17 million in funding.  This latest round brought the company’s total funding to $37 Million.More...

Kaspersky Lab has been in the online security business for 14 years and has a client base of 200,000 companies. According to its 2010 financial results, Kaspersky’s global revenue grew by 38% compared to the previous year and exceeded US $500 million.  It employs 2,300 specialists to support 300 million plus clients.  In India, cricket god Sachin Tendulkar endorses Kaspersky.More...

Teleperformance (TP) is one of the biggest BPO’s in the world.  It has about 128,000 employees and revenue of 1553 Million Pounds in the last nine months. Established in 1978, its core business spans the full spectrum of CRM / BPO contact center solutions. Teleperformance has a large global footprint with 276 contact centers, presence in 51 countries, servicing over 75 markets.More...

Regular readers of Techgoss are well aware that a large number of our articles are crowd sourced.  People send in tips, photos, story ideas and even articles. Many of our contributors have full times jobs in IT - ITES, and so prefer using a pseudonym. Over the years, a number of Tipsters have contacted Techgoss complaining about sexual harassment at their IT or BPO companies.More...