In October last year, personal computer manufacturer Dell&rsquo;s market share in the small and medium enterprises (SME) segment was just 3.2 per cent. A year later, the figure has improved to 5.2 per cent &ndash; a creditable performance considering that PC sales have been south-bound in this period.

Dell takes the SME path

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IBS Hyderabad, a constituent of ICFAI Foundation offering MBA programme, is seeing a revival in placements. The demand is particularly from the banking and financial sector, according to IBS director DS Rao.

Placements pick up at IBS

All documents in the IIM Lucknow (IIM-L) library are barcoded. But soon, the premier institute will implement radio frequency identification (RFID) technology to enable users to &quot;self-check and self-issue&quot; documents at any time of the day as well as return items without library staff assistance.

IIMs up IT spend to manage student influx, reduce costs

The All India IIT Faculty Federation (AIIITFF) President M Thenmozhi today urged faculty members of all the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) to accept and implement the recommendations of the Sixth Pay Commission.

Accept pay scale,  IIT federation tells members

Encouraged by the positive response they received from the Ministry of Human Resources Development (MHRD) on opening up campuses on foreign shores, some of the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) have also started scouting for foreign collaborations.

IIMs sharpen focus on foreign partnerships

Professor Kuriakose Mamkoottam recently took over as the dean of Delhi&rsquo;s Faculty of Management Studies (FMS) from J K Mitra and has many plans for the premier management institute. He shared with Kirtika Suneja his vision for the faculty, students and his expectations from the industry.

'Course revision is important for students to diversify'

In a bid to expand its footprint in India and abroad, Hyderabad-based Triumphant Institute of Management Education (TIME), an education and test preparation institute, is currently evaluating proposals from some professional training institutes and schools for a possible acquisition.

TIME scouts for acquisitions

With 240,000 applicants Common Admission Test (CAT) preparing for the paperless examination to be scheduled between November 28 and December 7, the favourite date amongst masters of business administration (MBA) aspirants seems to be December 6, states a poll conducted by PaGaLGuY.com, an MBA resources website. As many as 1,821 voters (24 per cent) prefer to take the test on the date, which falls on the first Sunday of December, out of the total 7,635 voters in the poll that began in August this year.

December 6 preferred date for CAT 2009, says poll

Apart from a new brand ambassador, the apparel maker has gone in for aggressive store expansionProvogue has done it again. It has switched its brand ambassador, this time from Saif Ali Khan to Hrithik Roshan, for its new campaign. The brand needed the buzz as much for its new line as for ensuring that its aggressive store expansion drive matches the growth of curious consumers.

Provogue wears a new attitude

After a lull of over eight months when virtually no new endorsement deal of any significant value was signed, the Rs 400-450 crore celebrity endorsement business is back on the recovery path.

Celebrity endorsement market back on track

To really understand the power of execution, you need to be in the East Stand of Mumbai&rsquo;s Wankhede stadium, when India is playing an opponent like Australia in a one day international. Every time Sachin Tendulkar touches the ball, an electric current passes through 60,000 spectators who let out a humungous roar of excitement. It is a zing that almost physically tries to reach out and touch this diminutive teacher&rsquo;s son. A man who realizes a million dreams as he sends the ball scorching across the ropes.

Kadak hai?

    This Indian entrepreneur named one of the ITES companies he set up by the Latin word for the number &lsquo;4&rsquo;.

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Aviva tries a new tool with Sachin Tendulkar to grab a bigger share of the life insurance market.

No child&#39;s play

After Reid &amp; Taylor, S Kumars Nationwide wants to try its luck in all segments.

Spinning a yarn

    Desire, Calgaro, Diya, Kashmi, Maya and Lucera are some of the brands of this company. It has 25 film stars who are its brand ambassadors. Name it.

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Small appliances maker Maharaja Whiteline hopes to double its growth tapping the unorganised market.

King-size ambitions

Changing lifestyles, rising number of nuclear families and double-income households have encouraged the ownership of pets in urban parts of India.

KIT: The pet food market in India

Music ripped off CDs or downloaded illegally, that can be found on digital music players, laptops and phones, robs the Indian music industry of over Rs 1,000 crore annually, according to market estimates. T-Series, the Indian music company which has rights to more than 200,000 songs, 30,000 music videos and movies, wants to change that. It has moved in with legitimate digital music on pen-drives and MicroSD cards, ideal for the preferred media devices, in the hope it will down one more deterrent to consuming media legally. The soundtrack of Blue is the first from its stables to be thus released, followed by All the Best and London Dreams.

T-Series: Digi music

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Tata Motors has had a tough year so far in the A3 segment of the car market. Sales have dropped 30 per cent until September. Its market share has shrunk. Rivals like Maruti Suzuki with the Dzire and Ford with the Ikon and Fiesta have shown growth.

Tata Motors: With Manza to steer

KIIT School of Management, a constituent of the city-based KIIT University today entered into a MoU (memorandum of understanding) with global IT major IBM for training the faculty and students on DB2, a data management software.

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