America had set up the H-1B visa program to hire on a short term basis highly skilled workers not available in USA.  The ground reality is that some Indian tech firms had used every loophole in the H-1B system to bring in low cost workers into USA.  The American Congress, Government, public service and media are now focusing on this H1B fraud. More...

You heard it here first. Highly regarded tech giant Cognizant will use its vast cash reserves to really make a BPO acquisition. Unlike, previous lukewarm pitches for WNS, Satyam and other companies, Cognizant has focused a laser like attention on the UBS deal. A source at top Swiss bank UBS told techgoss that the deal will be announced soon. More...

Union Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor is among the best and brightest in India.  Educated and erudite, Shashi was caught in controversy when he lightheartedly tweeted about flying ‘cattle class’. Congress power brokers disciplined Shashi Tharoor.  Now an Indian American newspaper Editor has fallen victim to his tweets at as well. More...

It was the biggest scandal to hit the film world this year.  Bollywood actor Shiney Ahuja, winner of the Filmfare Best male debut award in 2006, was arrested in June, 2009 for allegedly raping his maid servant.  After initial denials, Shiney claimed it was consensual.  The police, NCW, Maharashtra Chief Minister and even the Judge deciding bail have a different view. More...

Sapna Shahani and Angana Jhaveri are literally ‘women with a dream’ as their names indicate. They have won the prestigious MacArthur Digital Media and Learning Competition of 2009 worth $107,000 to pursue their dream of offering an online presence for low-income women from across India on their unique digital platform WAVE. More...

Technopark is among the most important tech hubs in India.  Spread over 300 acres, it has more than 17000 tech and associated workers. The Kerala tech industry is one of the great success stories of India. Techgoss had learnt that an employee of an IT Company in Technopark who was asked to resign following integrity issues has threatened the Technopark CEO. More...

Some heat has dissipated from the trouble brewing at the Gurgaon office of Software Technology Group (STG) where employees had either not been paid, or were being paid half of their salaries for the past 12 months or so.  The angry employees are on the war path with many workers (including programmers) leaving while others have clung on hoping things will improve. More...

The Harvard Business School is consistently rated among the top 3 MBA institutes in the world.  Its alumni have gone on to run some of the most successful tech businesses in the world.  Home Minister Chidambaram is a graduate.  The flip side of the coin is that many Harvard MBA’s were also intrinsically involved in the biggest business failures in USA. More...

NDTV is one of the most respected TV channels credited with a number of hard hitting exposes.  Infosys co-founder and iconic tech guru Narayana Murthy is on the Board of NDTV.  Another Infosys co-founder and successful author, Nandan Nilekani, currently heads the Government’s UID Project. So what happens when NDTV interviews Nandan? You get a feel good interview. More...

India has been blessed with the presence of many great religions living in relative peace and harmony.  And this mix of Hinduism, Islam, Christianity, Buddhism and others has given us strengths unique in the world. Mid 2008, techgoss had reported about an AP-based investment company which listed Wipro, HCL, Infosys and even Satyam stocks as halal. But IBM was not Halal. More...