NewsfoliO

TORQUE
August 2011/ 27 C-EX

Top News

An Addwiser2+ Presentation

Here's Everything Google Just Bought From Motorola For $12.5 Billion (Business Insider) http://goo.gl/xfe2s United States loses prized AAA credit rating from S&P (Reuters) http://goo.gl/Vy0vD Cognizant overtakes Wipro Technologies (Economic Times) http://t.co/RecZP9r Google+ the fastest-growing social network ever (Times of India) http://goo.gl/a9kcL

All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination. Earl Nightingale

GADGET BRIEF

Industry Updates (IT-ITES)

'Facebook for Business' http://t.co/4d1wvd8 debuted (Economic Times) More

Contd Intel Buys Semiconductor Company Fulcrum Microsystems (TechCrunch) http://goo.gl/T6cvR Autodesk Acquires Online Photo Editing Service Pixir (TechCrunch) http://goo.gl/mHHT5 Oracle buys call-center software maker InQuira (Reuter) http://goo.gl/g3tij EBay buys Zong as mobile payments gain traction (Reuter) http://goo.gl/3dRqu Genpact acquires Nissan's HR operations (Economic Times) http://t.co/mgYF16C Acer buys iGware, makes a $320 million bet on the cloud (Engadget) http://goo.gl/tuPxB Cognizant to acquire CoreLogic's India ops (Times of India) http://goo.gl/IB0o6 Mphasis buys US http://goo.gl/WsoQW company (Times of India)

Panasonic HDC-HS900
CAMCORDER

+ SD + 220 GB internal Storage, 3D Recording, 3.5 Touch-LCD. Eee Pad Slider (ASUS)
TABLET

Microsoft India splits consumer & online ad business http://goo.gl/amsrI & also opens R&D facility in Bangalore (Times of India) http://goo.gl/Mr6A7 LinkedIn tightens ties between jobseekers, employers (Reuters) http://goo.gl/uDuy9 Microsoft Announces The Explorer (Techcrunch) http://goo.gl/Nkd5w Touch Mouse

+ 10.1 Screen, Slider Keyboard,

Dual Camera and Processor.

WATCHOUT! + PadPhone (ASUS) + iPhone 5 (Apple)

Launches & Innovation

HEAL BRIEF TH
10 Persistent Myths about Smoking
(WebMD)
http://bit.ly/d0Z0EW

Apple rolls out new versions of MacBook Air, mini (Reuter) http://goo.gl/2yQWs Lenovo Launches Family Of Tablets: Two Android, One Windows (Forbes) http://t.co/agnHEpc
Skype Adds Video Calling Support For 17 Android Smartphones (Techcrunch) http://goo.gl/jqqkh InterGlobe launches travel http://goo.gl/eH681

Hinduja Global acquires Canadian co for Rs 354 cr (Times of India) http://goo.gl/7jkhB Microsoft, Yell Group form advertising partnership (Economic Times) http://goo.gl/5VjQK Cognizant, Visma bag multi-year outsourcing deal from Norway Post (Economic Times) http://bit.ly/r2KRz6

solution (Times of India)

Want to Live Longer? Try Turning Off Your TV

(TIME)
http://ti.me/ny10q1

Polaris software lab launches FT Grid (Times of India) http://goo.gl/zTrey

Deals & Expansions

Google Buys G.Co To Create An Official URL Shortcut For Google Products (TechCrunch) http://goo.gl/aFe0k Twitter buys analytics startup BackType (Times of India) http://goo.gl/yMm4k QlikTech inks deal with Capgemini (Times of India) http://goo.gl/ts2a8 NIIT Tech bags deal from Eurostar (Times of India) http://goo.gl/eekNf iGate Patni bags Rs 133 cr IT deal from US firm (Times of India) http://goo.gl/lF6Ku Adobe acquires software co EchoSign (Times of India) http://goo.gl/VzPBG Citrix Systems acquires http://goo.gl/MGpR0 Cloud.com (Times of India)

Whos Hiring/Firing?
Indian IT companies like MindTree, Infosys, Wipro deny hiring freeze because of US market worries, analysts keep fingers crossed (Economic Times) http://goo.gl/3nzsx Cisco to cut workforce by 15% (Times of India) http://goo.gl/jTt2n while Nokia Siemens Networks starts cutting 1,500 jobs (Reuters) http://goo.gl/ZM3MX Barclays to cut 3,000 jobs as profit drops (Times of India) http://goo.gl/GhXDw, HSBC plans to cut 30,000 jobs worldwide by 2013 (Times of India) http://goo.gl/4fUqe and also RIM adjusts to new reality by slashing 2,000 jobs (Reuters) http://goo.gl/2f8R7

JOB BRIEF

Technical Support Engineer for Bangalore based

top IT (Virtualization) Company. 6+ yrs experience in Linux/Unix/Windows/VMWare

Practise Head Min. 15yrs of

experience. Also experience in Insurance Domain. For TOP IT MNC based out of Bangalore.

Other updates
Infosys to have its own radio (Economic Times) http://bit.ly/nXRUnG Capgemini to setup Microsoft Azure Center of Excellence in Mumbai (ZDnet) http://goo.gl/A36hi & opens BPO centre in Gurgaon (Economic Times) http://bit.ly/jjx9dF HP seeks to make India innovation hub (Times of India) http://goo.gl/Ek3lQ Google partners to open research institute (Times of India) http://goo.gl/M6MZU PayPal Announces Phone-To-Phone NFC Payment Support For Android (Techcrunch) http://goo.gl/QFQyc Apple Acquires iPhone4.com And WhiteiPhone.com Domain Names (Techcrunch) http://goo.gl/sy3ix Aegis to start BPO centre in UK http://goo.gl/qXrwJ while Freescale opens R&D center in Hyderabad's SEZ (Times of India) http://goo.gl/zGK5P Genpact opens BPO in Sao Paulo (Times of India) http://goo.gl/SnffK

Looking for Presales

Solutions

Architect for a Top IT Company

based out of Bangalore. Experience in Microsoft tech., .Net, Visio Experience 8+ years. For Queries / Sending updated resumes:

Capgemini and Microsoft Plan to Offer Accelerated Cloud Services (Capgemini) http://goo.gl/9kuDx while Capgemini acquires Italian firm Aive for Euro 42.9 million (Economic Times) http://goo.gl/vZWO9 Google Acquires Facial Recognition Software Company PittPatt http://goo.gl/IjJ5T and Privacy-Centric Social Network Fridge (Techcrunch) http://goo.gl/kQRmF & also buys daily deal aggregator The Dealmap (Economic Times) http://bit.ly/nqmF6Y Facebook Buys Digital Bookmaking Service Push Pop Press (PC World) http://t.co/Eig365G Genpact ventures in Brazil, to serve (Economic Times) http://bit.ly/nQAYQv Astra Zeneca

contact@addwiser.biz

Feedback - Suggestion?
Send @:

m.singh@addwiser.biz

NFOLIO TEAM Chief Coordinator: Subin Amarnathan Coordinator: Smita Philip Consultants: Monika, Saloni

HCL Technologies signs Rs 567 crore deal with UK-based Mecom for providing IT services http://bit.ly/r2khbL & enters the pact with Eli Lilly for developing technologies (Economic Times) http://bit.ly/nMVL6r Hexaware bags $177 mn contract from US firm (Economic Times) http://bit.ly/oxY5kp Redknee, Tech Mahindra sign global partnership agreement (Economic Times) http://goo.gl/cj7kx Dell To Buy Data Center Solutions Provider Force10 Networks (TechCrunch) http://goo.gl/hsSvS

Addwiser Pick of the Month

Ten Principles to Live by in Fiercely Complex Times

http://goo.gl/aKXiX

Don't Wait for Wishes to Fulfill...Go Out & Make'em Come True.