Indian origin IIT graduate Bharat Desai co-founded Syntel in 1980 and in the process became a billionaire and a respected member of the successful Indian community in USA.  Bharat Desai’s intelligence and hard work are credited for making Syntel a major player in the IT, KPO and BPO niche. He is also on one of the School Boards at Harvard. More...

British financial giant Barclays has had a very good year.  Despite the recession, it made a profit of £5.3 billion.  Barclays income has grown by 34 percent and its liquidity pool has trebled to £127 billion.  To its credit, Barclays never accepted a penny from the British Govt to tide it over the global recession. More...

I have long held the view that once the Pakistani Govt exerts its rightful authority over parallel power centers in the country, their IT-ITES sector will grow as rapidly as ours. After all, we share the same heritage and skill sets. South Asian expert and respected author William Dalrymple finds Pak infrastructure better. More...

Public Relations firm Waggener Edstrom Worldwide has 800 employees in 16 countries.  In the past, Waggener Edstrom was named European Technology Agency of the Year.  Its clients include tech giants like Microsoft and Toshiba.  Like most communication agencies, it has mastered new media like blogs, Facebook and Twitter. More...

She modestly says she has done ‘some other interesting things, like research as a biomedical scientist, solder on rocket payloads, teach French, volunteer with both abused women and abused animals, and work for a nonprofit healthcare organization’. Meet Vanitha Sankaran, techie, whose debut novel “Watermark’ is making waves. More...

The Readers Digest is the world’s largest circulation magazine.  The Readers Digest Association publishes 92 magazines, including 50 editions of Readers Digest, to reach an audience of 130 million worldwide. Readers Digest India has just published its list of the most trusted Indians which includes a number of IT managers. More...

US-based Indian origin Tech firm Apex Technology Group had initiated legal action against American blogs EndH1B, Itgrunt and Guestworkerfraud. Apex, which counts IBM, Microsoft, UBS and other blue chip companies as clients, wanted to protect its reputation after EndH1B published a post accusing it allegedly of mistreating Indians on H1B Visas. More...

United States based whistle blowing website Cryptome has been operating for 14 years and has published many secret documents that Governments and powerful corporations wanted to keep out of the public eye. Despite threats from some FBI agents, big business and a legal notice from Yahoo, it survived and soldiered on. More...

Over the last six months, Techgoss had published a series of exclusive reports giving details of all that was happening inside BPO Syntel.  One report showed how that in the recent past Syntel was overly reliant on couple of key clients.  Techgoss had also reported on the exit of the CEO and senior HR people at Syntel. More...

As many as 85 percent of all the emails in the world are spam selling everything from Viagra to designer watches from Hong Kong. The Spamhaus Project is an international nonprofit organization whose mission is to track the Internet's spam operations and to provide dependable real-time anti-spam protection for networks. More...