Now this comes as a surprise – Just 2 days after Paypal had announced that they will be stopping Electronic Funds Withdrawal to Indian Banks – They seem to have made a complete U turn. The announcement on their blog today says that Indian Paypal users can perform electronic withdrawals as they did before.
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Paypal Update: Resumes Electronic Withdrawal Service to India
The UK has now upstaged America as the most preferred campus destination for Indians. Blame it on the declining job opportunities in the US which is battling the worst downturn in decades or it could as well be that America is still more expensive to study in than Europe.
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Indian students now prefer UK over America for Overseas Studies!
Facebook recently crossed the 500 million users mark a few weeks ago. India has the 11 th highest number of Facebook users at 10.5 million. Orkut still has a higher fan following among Indians with about 15 million users
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How well are Indian brands leveraging Facebook today?
With business process outsourcing (BPO) segment witnessing de-growth for the past two years, HCL Technologies has decided to transform it into business plus service platform and call it Business Services. This was disclosed by Vineet Nayar, Chief Executive Officer, in an interview with this correspondent over telephone on Thursday. Under this, the company would offer integrated platform along with people as a business package and charge the clients on a per transaction basis.
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HCL Tech To Change Its Bpo Sector
A little over 2/3 rd of the Earth is covered by water – But how much of it could be tapped by the mankind? Not much
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UN declares access to clean water a human right – When will India do so?
I have always admired fashion shows and their glamorous models. Not so much for their skinny and anorexic looks but for their amazing ability to change their clothes, make-up and persona within minutes and then walk the ramp with such élan and confidence. What these models teach me is how to manage change without hesitation
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What Entrepreneurs must learn from Fashion Models!
IRCTC seems to hitting rough weather with Indian Railways – First their Menu went off the table, and now it is the e-ticketing business which seems to be at stake. Remember the sound of empty scissors that barbers create during the impending cut
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First the catering and Now E-ticketing – Indian Railways flushing IRCTC out of job…
– Gartner rolls back 2010 IT spending forecast over Europe’s debt crisis (1 July 2010, Computerworld) – Another Proposed Law To Stop Offshore Outsourcing (30 June 2010, CIO) – Understanding The Evolving Ecosystem Of Innovation Service Providers (30 June 2010, CIO) – More outsourcing business from UK (30 June 2010, Offshoring Times) – German Bonds Rise as Signs of Slowdown Boo st Demand for Refuge (29 June 2010, BusinessWeek) – Africa’s Biggest Score: A Thriving Economy (28 June 2010, BusinessWeek) – Profiting From Open Source – Without Selling Out (28 June 2010, CIO) – 71 Prozent der deutschen Hightech-Firmen erwarten Umsatzplus (1 Juli 2010, ZdNet) – Weltweite Gartner-Prognose: IT-Ausgaben steigen ordentlich (1 Juli 2010, Computerwoche) – Die In- und Out-Themen der ITK-Branche in KW 26 (30 Juni 2010, IT Business) – Fünf Fehler bei Virtualisierung (29 Juni 2010, CRN) – Studie: IT verschläft Automation (29 Juni 2010, Computerwoche) – IT-Services und Software als Wachstumsmotor (29 Juni 2010, computerwoche.de) – In der Wolke liegt die Zukunft.
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Press review week 27/2010
Google has taken the numero uno position when it comes to the best companies in India to work for. The survey released jointly by Great place to Work Institute & Economic Times puts Google as the most preferred company for employment.
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Top 50 Indian Companies to work for 2010
There was an era of classic movies where the producers and directors used to spend their lives on making a good movie. Those were the kind of real stuff movies where the audience can connect with even today – with their characters, stories, ever-green songs (even lyrics) and the human traits that old movies dealt with. However, as the time changed, the trends have had to keep pace with the new developments and changing styles of the related genre of the movie goers.
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Media Monday: Bollywood’s Changing paradigm with Shorter movies & weekly collections !
We have been connecting with our friends, family and professionals on a multiple social networks like Facebook , Twitter , Linked In , Orkut etc. It has been fun to be in touch with our near and dears. It gives an immense joy to grow our network and feel good about it
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Is your Social Network an Asset or Liability ?
Here are some of the buzzing stories of the last week. Number of articles were discussed quite a bit, if you have missed them…go ahead and give them a look..
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Best of the Week – Twitter Ecosystem, CEO salaries, Ecommerce, Facebook & more…
Happiness expert, educator and coach, speaker, Founder and CEO of the Oxford based consultancy iOpener , Jessica Pryce-Jones , was kind enough to answer a few questions about her important and research based book Happiness at Work: Maximizing Your Psychological Capital for Success . The author demonstrates, with real world examples, of how employees who are happier at work achieve their highest potential, earn more, are promoted more readily, and are much more productive than unhappy staff members.
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Jessica Pryce-Jones: Happiness At Work – Author interview
Earlier this year John Kitchen, SVP and chief marketing officer for Datawatch Corp., wrote a guest opinion for IT Business Edge in which he discussed his company’s approach to dealing with what he called the toughest business intelligence challenges:
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Business Intelligence Without Reinventing the Wheel
Changing climate and growing concern over carbon emissions have led to immense focus on the development of Green/Clean technologies. It is well understood that these clean/green technologies posses the key for the future growth and developments. Clean/Green technology includes any energy, water, transportation, manufacturing or production technologies that keep the environment clean by making emissions less toxic, or by reducing waste
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Finance Friday: Green Investments for a Green Future
The death sentence is out officially ! India has officially discontinued use of type writers in all its day to day operations!!! Type writer is no more!! Let’s pay our last tributes to this incredible machine. For the generation who grew up on Imax Multiplexes, Mc Donald’s Burgers, Levis Jeans and the more recent advent of iPads (which has endangered the existence of desktops and laptops), the end of a Golden era of Type writer may look insignificant
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R.I.P Typewriters – Paying Tributes to End of an Era !
The reconciliation between the estranged Ambani brothers was followed by the scrapping of the non-compete agreement allowing both the group companies to foray into newer industries (except that Mukesh-led companies should not venture into gas power plants till 2022), where either of the two Ambani bandhus already have their active presence.
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Markets betting on Ambani Brothers truce – ADAG Stocks Rally Hard
Southern India stands out when it comes to general well-being of citizens, so does Western India as compared to other parts of the Country. In eastern parts of India people lack well being, while in North India scores very low when it comes to Female Security. These are some of the findings of report released by management consultancy firm TSMG ( Tata Strategic Management Group ) on the Well Being Index (WBI) and Female Security Index (FSI)
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Western & Southern India better on Well Being & Female Security Index !
The much-awaited revised discussion paper on the Direct Tax Code (DTC) is set in the public domain by the Manmohan Singh government. The earlier discussion paper on the Direct Tax Code Bill was released in August 2009 to receive public feedback and inputs on the proposals. The revised paper is said to have addressed some of these issues after attracting sharp criticisms from several quarters on various grounds.
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Revised Direct Tax Code – What you should know !
How often I have received SMS’es on my cell phone that starts with ‘Height of Stupidity’ or ‘Height of PJ’ (Pakau/Poor Jokes) and than starts the actual humorous portion of the text message. On a lighter side, while writing this post it struck me that this post is something related to the ‘Height of Laziness’ 
Yes, technology is indeed moving at a faster pace. Speaking about the mobile phone handsets, we have seen it all from tiresome numeric keypads to less cumbersome QWERTY keypads and now even touch screen mobiles doing away with physical keypads.
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Soon a mobile phone that will operate without touch, but with gaze of your eye !