The 20th International World Wide Web (WWW) conference will be held here on March 28, in association with the International Institute of Information Technology (III-T) Hyderabad, IIIT-B (Bangalore) and the Institute of Information Technology (IIT) Bombay.

International conference on WWW to be held in Hyd on March 28

Business Standard

Having embarked on a novel project to promote people with entrepreneurial skills onto education through 'Edupreneur', Everonn Education now plans to bring the centres to Gujarat.

Everonn's 'Edupreneur' in Gujarat by April 2011

The Institute for Development and Research in Banking Technology (IDRBT), an institute under the Reserve Bank of India, on Friday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IITK) for collaboration in academic and research activities.

IDRBT signs research pact with IIT Kanpur

The city-based KIIT University continues to pull top recruiters to its campus. Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), India's largest software consultancy firm, has picked up a record 658 students in the campus placement held on December 15 while as many as 702 students bagged job offers from the Tata Group.

Recruiters make beeline at KIIT campus

Power companies come out with advertising campaigns when they need to raise money from the capital markets. They buy space in the media, put up hoardings and even get into some sponsorship deals. Once the money is in the bank, they roll back the campaign. The latest Tata Power campaign has nothing to do with fund-raising; it is meant to do what any ordinary campaign does &mdash; create differentiation in the mind of the consumer.

Power that bonds

Business strategies of companies are fast outpacing their organisational design.

Designed for growth

Life after Honda: The Munjals want to build on their &lsquo;trust equity&rsquo; as they set the ball rolling for a new corporate identity and logo.

Hero's new script: Continuity

Cafe Coffee Day is ramping up fast to meet its biggest challenge: the entry of Starbucks.

Smelling the coffee

With the world turning flatter every day, clear distinction among product categories are fading. Usages and user interfaces are constantly getting redefined, re-aligned and re-discovered. The rapid bundling of services on various mobile telephony platforms &ndash; voice, chat, mail, music, media, internet, banking &amp; finance, &ndash; today&rsquo;s phone is a do-all-in-one gadget, an epitome of convergence.

The per capita myopia

Dabur Real is the latest addition to a bandwagon of brands adopting the health positioning. Its latest campaign aims at appealing to the better judgement of mothers by highlighting the nutritional benefits of Dabur&rsquo;s packaged juice, rather than just the taste. &ldquo;Taste, which was our earlier positioning, is a variety seeking behaviour, while health is a habit,&rdquo; says Dabur India Head of Marketing (foods division) Krishan Kumar Chutani.

Real refreshed

Germany-based specialty chemicals company Lanxess is strengthening its footprint in India by setting up new units in synthetic rubber and clean-water technology. It hopes to leverage the demand in Asia with these units. The company has made investments in a green-field facility for rubber chemicals and ion-exchange resins at Jhagadia in Gujarat.

Rubber chemistry

The teleshopping market in India is estimated to be Rs 550-600 crore. It has been growing at more than 40 per cent over the last three years.

KIT: The teleshopping market in India

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The top 10 business bestsellers

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The Strategist Quiz (#180)

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Answers to last week's quiz (#179)

In a first, publishing arm wants 15 case studies from two management institutes.

Harvard dials Indian schools for case studies

When over half a dozen international B-schools have already launched their India initiatives, Stanford University&rsquo;s Graduate School of Business says it is in no hurry to do the same. Garth Saloner, the school&rsquo;s dean, tells Kalpana Pathak how India is important for the school in a different way and programme launches would only be need-demand-based.

Q&A: Garth Saloner, Dean, Stanford Graduate School of Business

IIT Conclave to be held during VGGIS 2011.
In a bid to give a fillip to technological development in the state, the Government of Gujarat along with 400 strong Pan-IIT Gujarat Alumni Association will be organising 'IIT Conclave: Technology and Development in Gujarat' on January 11, 2011 as a part of the Vibrant Gujarat Global Investors' Summit (VGGIS) 2011.
The conclave will present and discuss various relevant issues such as addressing educational challenges for innovation and looking at

IITians to deliberate on tech development in Gujarat

Almost any observer of the Indian business scene will tell you that several factors could make India uncompetitive in world markets &mdash; lack of physical and social infrastructure, capacity and a skilled workforce, and land acquisition for projects being the ones cited most often. The last month has shown that India Inc can add another reason, and place it fairly high up in the list: crimes against women.

Kanika Datta: Safe and sound

Musst chips launched with much fanfare in 2008 flopped, but the firm isn&rsquo;t giving up yet on the fast-growing fried snacks segment.

Parle hopes to be second time lucky

Just a week after she appeared for her third semester exam in a middle-rung business school in Kolkata, a former colleague&rsquo;s daughter received a job offer from a large consultancy, and an interview for a second is on the way. Just six months ago, she was taking about an uncertain future because about half of the 80-strong previous batch had firm job offers through the institute&rsquo;s placement cell.

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