Over the last 15 months, Techgoss had published a series of exclusive reports giving details of all that was happening inside the BPO, KPO and IT divisions of one of India’s most successful IT-ITES companies Syntel.  One report showed how that in the recent past Syntel BPO was overly reliant on couple of key clients. Also, reported were the exits of the CEO and key HR people. More...

Sama Adil is an Image Consultant who works with individuals and Tech majors in Bangalore offering counselling and assistance in image enhancement. She firmly believes that individuals can make a strong impact on others through their appearance and attitude. Techgoss chatted with Sama about how this works and its bearing on levels of confidence and wellbeing in an individual. More...

So you have a product / service to sell online and you are looking to place the advertisement. You pull out your plastic to pay for your message to be shown on reputed ad platforms like Google AdWords and wait for the commerce that may or may not follow. Wait! There is a Pune based Start-up Sokrati which is all about providing ‘one platform for your Digital Marketing needs’. More...

Innovation is his middle name, and it’s what he does for a living. It’s no wonder that Hyderabad based Ashwin Palaparthi composes great music along with software testing techniques. This articulate 31 year old, a VP at AppLabs, is a man of many talents and had even launched a software venture ValueMinds which is credited with a number of award winning software testing tools. More...

So, Customer is King; and the “loyal” King gets rewards. But how many of us really carry all the paper / plastic around or remember to redeem these?  Klisma is your new intelligent shopping tool, initiated through your ubiquitous mobile. KLISMA is a mobile based membership card and when you register, you get a mobile based ID across all participating retailers in the program. More...

Nikesh Rathi, author of Somewhere @ Nowhere, worked with IT industry for some time before going on to pursue his passion for Education and Writing.  Though he had only a short stint in IT at Wipro, it helped him form the central characters of his book. Post his MBA from IIM in 2008, he now works in the educational sector.  Techgoss speaks to Nikesh about his well received book. More...

The US had set up the H-1B visa program to hire on a short term basis highly skilled workers not available in America. While most Indian tech firms win contracts based on their quality computing skills and competitive costs and treat their H1B techies well, there are others which exploit Indians at every opportunity.  The US Govt has announced huge fines for some such firms. More...

Karan Parikh and Sam Liu from Urbana Champaign, Illinois entered the YahooHackU, an international programming competition, simply to apply what they’d learnt at school, learn something new and meet many more interesting people! But they ended up with much more – a place at the finals of the prestigious contest and an iPad were just some of the things they walked away with. 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. Last year, WNS had net revenue of $386 Million. Techgoss had exclusively reported on how Keshav Murugesh had left Syntel to join WNS. Now a rogue AVP is on the radar for his rude behaviour. More...

Pradeep Chakravathy is an HR Guru handling Leadership Development in one of India’s largest and most successful IT giants. But that’s just the beginning, he wears other hats too – Freelance writer, Conductor of heritage walks in Chennai (with a view to introducing people to some very interesting, non-religious aspects of temples) and author of ‘Thanjavur a Cultural History’. More...