Sumit kale represents all that is good with the young Indians who dare to dream.  Intelligent, honest and hardworking, Sumit started Indiagini with an innovative business model to cater to the recruitment industry.  After a few hiccups,  Indiagini procured funding from Mrs. Kalpana Bansal who was VP Human Resources of Mudra Communication before her current assignment as CEO of Beanstalk consulting.   Kalpana has had a distinguished background with successful stints at Tata Unisys and Star TV and is highly regarded by industry peers. When Sumit met Kalpana,  it seemed it was a business marriage made in VC heaven. Indiagini settled down as a business with regular revenue and a future looking brighter by the day. More...

Are some US social networking sites using Indian expertise and skills to increase their membership numbers? And consequently earning more street creed and revenue from American advertisers.  The ethics of paying Indians per sign-up, when membership is free in USA, raises many questions. More...

Techies in Trivandrum are mourning the impending loss of an invaluable resource for their knowledge hunt; Trivandrumites are now losing their second international culture symbol, the British Council Library. The proposed closure of the British Library is a bolt from the blue for several Trivandrumites who have been members since its inception in 1964. The attractive grey stone-block with just the right ambience has generously helped in promoting the reading habits of many a Trivandrumite. More...

A Lecturer of a Management Institute in Trivandrum and his Assistant have been arrested last week for making a fake profile of a Woman Students activist and posting defamatory remarks on the page while running a hate campaign against her. Ms. Sindhu Joy, the State Secretary of Students Federation of India (SFI), which is the student’s wing of a prominent political party, had filed an FIR about her fake profile and a hatred community on Orkut, being used to post derogatory statements about her. More...

New Year is fast approaching and the IT companies are hoping to cash in on techies who are planning expensive holidays abroad with referral bonuses.  Gone are days when employees were awarded food coupons and Rs. 5,000 cash reward as referral bonus. Now, Internal Referral is the ‘in thing’ in most of the IT/ITeS and BPO sectors. More...

Out here in the business jungle the customer is king, and they say in the web world, content is king. So what of the content creator? Is he/she a king maker?  You bet! But king makers are notoriously badly treated and things are no different in the case of writers! As the internet opens more opportunities to connect the business requirements between the rich countries and talent in India,  a number of scam artists are also stepping in to exploit this cross border trade. More...

Techgoss gets many of its stories via anonymous tips.  We received a particularly juicy one this morning. Hindustan Times is one of the most powerful media groups in North India.   It has tied up with the respected Wall Street Journal to start a business newspaper named Mint. More...

‘It’s probably the toughest Diwali in the history of HR industry’ quips one HR Manager. As though retaining employees was not difficult enough, now comes the challenge of making them work on India’s most sought after festival season. More...

Unknown hackers have gained unauthorized entry into the official website of the IT solution provider company KLG Systel Limited and have deleted vital information including login and application modules. The company with a pan-India presence and head office in Gurgaon has reported the matter to the police officials who have registered a case of cyber crime against the hackers.  The police Cyber Crime Cell have sought the help of experts from the IT industry including NASSCOM. More...

A senior executive of IBM-Daksh was caught up in a long, protracted ‘war of wits’ with a group of local journalists recently when his car accidentally hit a scribe’s car outside a shopping mall in Gurgaon. Being driven by his driver, the Hyundai Accent was turning back to pick up the wife of the executive when it hit the parked car of a reporter of a national news TV channel. More...