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...

CISCO, with the largest share of the global network equipment market, earned revenues of $11 Billion for the 3 months ending May, 2010 which was  25 % higher than 2009. The Cisco I-Prize, worth $250K, is an open, global competition where anyone can submit ideas for Cisco’s next business success. Techgoss interviewed Sanjith Yeruva who has made it to the finals of this contest. More...

Social media monitoring and analytics technology company Sysomos monitors blogs, Twitter, social networks, Wikis and other media to work out what happens on the net. Using this collated data, Sysomos clients have access to consumer sentiment, geo demographics and competitive intelligence.  Its latest report on the top Twitterers shows some have substantial following in India. More...

On May 18,  I had reported on how a Facebook (FB) group ‘Everybody draw Mohammed Day on May 20’ had extremely graphic images and cartoons (few of which were pornographic) and were bound to hurt the sensibilities of many in the Islamic world.  Despite many requests, Facebook did not take down this group saying its platform allows such freedom of speech about every religion. More...

Even as Indian private sector IT, BPO and Telecom firms have made the country a digital super power, the Government infrastructure lags behind.  Except for a handful of States, Indian police do not have the skills and budgets to take on cyber crime. Most victims of cyber crime, especially women, find themselves helpless. NGO CCVC steps in to offer assistance to such victims. More...