IT industry is likely to witness attractive salary hikes and job offers for experienced professionals, resulting in high attrition over the next few quarters as demand for talent will outstrip supply, say experts.

Big salary hikes in store for IT execs: experts

Press Trust of India

There is nothing fast or easy about building a strong brand &mdash; persistent champions of branding will vouch for that. In their book Brand Building Advertising, authors MG Parameswaran, executive director, and CEO, Mumbai, of Draftfcb Ulka Advertising and Kinjal Medh, COO, Cogito Consulting, have put together the learnings from a series of case studies that have put some companies and products on the brand map. Here they take on questions from the strategist on the challenges before marketing today and how advertising can manage people&rsquo;s changing perceptions.

Q&A: MG Parameswaran & Kinjal Medh

Business Standard

New models set to storm market after the hugely successful iPad2 launch.

Tablet PC frenzy hits a new high

Cricket seems to be the flavour of this season. So much so that when cricket buffs are not watching this sport on TV, they are playing it &mdash; on their mobile phones.

Cricket buffs bat for online gamimg

N R Narayana Murthy, co-founder and the man behind one of India&rsquo;s entrepreneurial success stories, Infosys, has decided to bid adieu to the company after August 20. Its longest-serving CEO (he held the position from 1981 to 2002), he leaves Infosys when the gap between it and the number one information technology services company (TCS) is growing wider. In an interview with Bibhu Ranjan Mishra &amp; Pradeesh Chandran, he talks of the past, the present and what lies before Infosys.

Q&A: N R Narayana Murthy, Infosys

K V Kamath says he can never step into Narayana Murthy&rsquo;s rather large shoes, but would do his best to ensure Infosys continues to adhere to the highest standards of corporate governance. A day after being named its non-executive chairman, Kamath, 63, who has the same responsibility at ICICI Bank, spoke to Bibhu Ranjan Mishra &amp; Pradeesh Chandran on his plan for one of India&rsquo;s largest software services companies.

Q&A: K V Kamath, Chairman-Designate, Infosys

Also, dedicated resources for top 60 clients, in a set of moves to encourage growth.

Variable pay at Wipro now linked to staffers' accounts

India&rsquo;s premier software services company, Infosys Limited, has reached out to its banker, the non-executive chairman of ICICI Bank, K V Kamath, to step into the shoes of its founder N R Narayana Murthy. This long-expected move should bring an embattled firm a &ldquo;desirable newness&rdquo; that Mr Kamath is capable of offering. The transition from the era of the founders has not been smooth for Infosys. Not only has the external environment become more competitive, but the internal environment has also become increasingly contentious. Managing these twin challenges and dealing with the firm&rsquo;s &ldquo;midlife crisis&rdquo; will be the main task before the new team. Mr Kamath comes with high credentials, though one must not exaggerate the leadership he was able to provide at ICICI Bank or his role in brokering peace between the Ambani brothers &mdash; the two things that keep coming up in the media as Mr Kamath&rsquo;s assets.

Desirable newness

Retailware Softech Pvt Ltd, a Pune-based software solution provider for retail industry, is planning to focus on small and medium retailers in western region of the country.

Retailware Softech to target small retailers

T V Mohandas Pai, former director of human resources and administration, may have quit Infosys in a hurry, hardly suppressing his anger while questioning the process for selecting the CEO.

Murthy says Pai fell to own policy

State-run telecom operator (Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd) MTNL was looking at listing its Mauritius arm, Mahanagar Telephone Mauritius Ltd (MTML), in that country, even as it planned to enter the African market, a top company official said.

MTNL may list Mauritian arm soon

The Indian information technology software and services industry is truly the lighthouse of modern India &mdash; an industry that has made every Indian proud and made the world take notice of India.

How TCS became 'truly global'

US based leading software and technology services company SunGard has developed a new global technology solution centre in Pune.

SunGard Opens Global Solution Center in Pune

From low-cost handsets to tablet PC&rsquo;s, the Indian FMCG and retail sector is latching on to technology and applications to reach out to rural India.

As rural India goes hi-tech

Flytxt, a technology platform developer and deployer of mobile marketing and advertising technology and services, already enjoys the backing of top European venture capital firms like Clifton Holdings, IVC Venture Capital AG, RM Shareholding Management and Schnell Consult. With the 3G roll out gaining pace in India, the company, with its headquarters in India, is beefing up its offerings. Abhay Doshi, senior director and global strategy head-product and marketing, tells Raghuvir Badrinath how Flytxt is planning to ride the tide.

Q&A: Abhay Doshi, Flytxt

As a university student, Avnish Desai was advised by his professors to never rely on Wikipedia content alone for his research. &ldquo;In fact, some discourage us from even using the website as a source of basic research,&rdquo; he said.

Wiki pages, part of making grades

Brigadier General Harold J Greene only has to look around his house to realise the challenges the Army faces in engaging young soldiers. His children, he says, are always &ldquo;buried in a cellphone or an iPad.

Keyboards first, then grenades

The Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) on Monday announced it had built a supercomputer, India&rsquo;s fastest in terms of theoretical peak performance of 220 Trillion Floating Point Operations Per Second (TeraFLOPS).

Isro stakes claim to India's fastest supercomputer

In September 2008, when Sudip Banerjee, then the president of Wipro Technologies, had decided to join a relatively less known IT services company, L&amp;T Infotech, he had said it was perhaps the last challenge he wanted to take. Banerjee was one of the people instrumental in shaping the future of Wipro&rsquo;s IT business in its early days. He joined Wipro in 1983 and headed Enterprise Solutions, its largest business division.

BS People: Sudip Banerjee

Outgoing Infosys CEO S Gopalakrishnan is not perturbed by the fact that the company has lost some of its sheen. Reasoning why others were doing well, he said they were in different phases of their transformational journey. In a discussion with Bibhu Ranjan Mishra and Pradeesh Chandran, the executive co-chairman designate talks about the challenges Infosys faces.

Q&A: S Gopalakrishnan, Executive Co-Chairman designate, Infosys

Mobile services provider Uninor, the brand name of Unitech Wireless, a joint venture company between real estate major Unitech Limited and Norway-based mobile services provider Telenor Group, is planning to open 25 more branded stores in Andhra Pradesh, taking the total to 90 by June. Customers can walk into these stores and buy anything from a SIM card, recharge coupon, and even handsets and accessories, as well as for registering complaints and enquiring about VAS (value-added services) products, a company release said.

Uninor to open 25 more stores in AP

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