Facebook is the hottest social networking site in the world with more than 500 million members.  In India, it is well on its way to dominating Google’s Orkut. Facebook was founded by billionaire Mark Zuckerberg who is one of the most influential people in the world. In 2008, Techgoss had offered a reward of Rs 10,000 for details of Zuckerberg’s secret visit to India. More...

Singapore-based Global Indian Foundation manages 22 international schools in 8 countries.  In Sept, 2010, the Global School of Silicon Valley will start operations in US as well.  Their schools aim to nurture global citizens with an international perspective that builds entrepreneurial skills from the very beginning. Its legal action against a blog is now being reported in USA. More...

Dr. Kavita Chandrasekhar is a software engineer by profession and a spiritual teacher by choice. She holds workshops with Ishdeep Sahni (also a techie turned spiritual teacher and co-creator of I emanate) across the globe aiming to empower people looking for spiritual, personal or metaphysical answers.  Kavita spoke to Techgoss about her move from a binary to a spiritual world. More...

A number of technology gurus have done much philanthropic work in the past.  David Packard of Hewlett-Packard was highly regarded for giving a large part of his fortune to charity.  But Microsoft founder Bill and his wife Melinda Gates set new standards for charity and public service when they announced they would give away more than 95 percent of their fortune to charity. More...

FoxNews is one of the most powerful media groups in USA, and by extension many parts of the world.  It is the voice of conservative America. So much so, that as VP, Dick Cheney’s aides ensured every hotel he stayed in was told that the TV in his room had to be tuned to Fox.  On July 14, 2010, Fox News called Pakistan Pornistan for being the No. 1 Nation in sex web searches. More...

US-based Reddit.com, like Digg, is a site where anyone on the internet can provide content.  And the Reddit community votes to decide what is good and what is garbage.  The more votes a submitted article/link gets, the more chances it will make its way to the front page and consequently international exposure and attention. Reddit is hugely popular in India and Pakistan. More...

By any standards of the world, Indian tech and IT major HCL is a successful company.  HCL was launched in 1976 and successfully overcame a number of obstacles in the pre Manmohan Singh liberalization era to grow from strength to strength.  Today, it employs 62,000 professionals in 26 countries looking after many blue chip clients.  It currently has revenue of about $5 Billion. More...

July 5, 2010 was the biggest country wide strike seen in recent years.  The Central Government had recently hiked the prices of petroleum products, and this was the trigger used by Opposition political parties to call for an all India strike to protest the growing inflation.  While tech hub Bangalore was brought to a standstill, it was business as usual at IT parks in Kerala. More...

NASSCOM ranks WNS as the No. 2 BPO company in India.  WNS was set up in 1996 and employs 21,000 people in 21 delivery centres in Americas, Europe and Asia looking after 200 global clients. In 2009, WNS had net revenue of $386 Mill. Techgoss had exclusively reported on how Syntel BPO boss Keshav Murugesh had left to head WNS. And how Keshav was head hunting ex Syntel colleagues. More...

For 10 years, Satyam founder Ramalinga Raju was one of the golden men of the Indian IT-ITES sector. Raju was feted by politicians and big business.  He was awarded the Golden Peacock Award for Corporate Governance in 2008 as well as the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year in 2007.  By now, it is history that Satyam was a house of cards build by con man Raju and his family. More...