Blame it on improved business climate, restructuring within companies or just the basic need to pursue better opportunities &mdash; the Indian information technology (IT) industry is seeing heavy churn at the top.

IT firms 'refresh' top talent

Business Standard

Vuppalamritha Magnetic Components Limited (VMC), a Hyderabad-based manufacturer of telecom equipment and power conversion products, is in the process of raising anywhere between Rs 400 crore and Rs 500 crore through an initial public offering (IPO) to fuel its overseas expansion plans.

VMC to raise Rs  500 crore through IPO

Australia-based technology and business consulting services company Oakton will soon be expanding its operations in Hyderabad from the present 22,000 sft to 44,000 sft, according to its vice-president Dennis Papakyriakopoulos GTSC (India). After interacting with state IT&amp;C minister Ponnala Laxmaiah here, he said the company had been delivering 25 per cent of its business from Hyderabad.

Oakton to expand  Hyderabad ops

A Vodafone Essar-appointed consultancy firm has termed the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India's recommendation on 2G spectrum pricing as flawed and containing basic errors. Vodafone Essar had commissioned Plum Consulting to analyse the Trai recommendations of fixing price for spectrum beyond 6.2MHz.

Policy flawed: Vodafone report

The Telecom ministry has disfavoured a lower licence fee of six per cent as against up to 10 per cent now while accepting suggestions with regard to delinking of licences with spectrum, on M&amp;As and reframing of 800/900 MHz spectrum.

DoT partly accepts Trai's report on spectrum issues

Press Trust of India

TravelMartIndia.com Pvt Ltd a travel web portal announced the launch of vamoose.in, which is apparently the country's first group buying travel, leisure and vacation portal. The concept of group buying has already seen success the world over allowing companies selling in bulk to leverage and offer deep discounts to consumers.

TravelMartIndia launches first group portal for travel and leisure

Aid to support BSNL&rsquo;s rural operations, MTNL&rsquo;s pension payouts.

Annual Rs 3,000-cr subsidy planned for BSNL, MTNL

With iON for SMEs, India&rsquo;s largest IT service provider is stepping into unchartered territory.

TCS sees silver lining in SME cloud

Carnegie Mellon University President Jared Leigh Cohon has been trying to push &ldquo;digital education&rdquo; as the next big revolution in the sector.

India on mind, Carnegie Mellon University thinks digital

When the Mahindra &amp; Mahindra (M&amp;M) group named S Durgashankar as the chief financial officer of Mahindra Satyam in June 2009, the task was him was gargantuan. It involved collecting 30 terrabytes of information, checking over 2 million emails, securing and mining information from over 300 computer hard discs and verifying over 200 bank accounts to bring order to the financial system at the fraud-hit IT outsourcing firm.

BS People: S Durgashankar

Mobile phone major Nokia today set it is all set to launch its all-in-one smartphone Nokia E7 in the Indian market soon.

Nokia to launch E7 smartphone in India

Leading security vendor Fortinet today said rollout of 3G services in India would throw up fresh security challenges, demanding new solutions to tackle these problems.

3G rollout to play out new security challenges: Fortinet

The television was not the only screen that was vying for the audiences&rsquo; attention on the Budget day last week.

Google monetises video platform

He understood Sun&rsquo;s India business threadbare, and this was a reason why his expertise proved handy for Sun Microsystems when it was undergoing the crucial phase of integration.

BS People: Bhaskar Pramanik

Aditya Birla Minacs, the business process outsourcing (BPO) arm of the Aditya Birla Group, was an early mover into the segment. Formed after the acquisition of Minacs by Transworks, the company is seeing rapid change in the way BPO services are offered to clients. Global CEO Deepak Patel discusses what lies ahead with Pradeesh Chandran.

Q&A: Deepak Patel, Global CEO, Aditya Birla Minacs

Nokia India today announced its debut in &lsquo;Touch and Type&rsquo; design with the launch of two new devices, Nokia X3 - 02 and Nokia C3 - 01, in Chandigarh. Both the devices offer consumers the best of both worlds by combining keypad functionality with a sleek touchscreen interface.

Nokia launches new handsets in Chandigarh

The India arm of the &euro;50.9-billion, France-based, Orange Business Services (OBS), offering integrated communication services, is looking at quadrupling its sales in India over the next five years. Bala Mahadevan, CEO, OBS India, outlines plans for growth, current strategy and insights into the burgeoning cloud market to Swati Garg.

Q&A: Bala Mahadevan, Orange Business Services

The combined serial inkjet and page printer, copier and multifunction product (MFP) market expanded by 10% to over 6.8 lakh units in the last quarter of 2010, market analyst firm Gartner said today.

Printer copier market grows 10% in Oct-Dec

Warner Bros is offering an online rental service on Facebook, giving the studio a new way to distribute films amid concerns by parent Time Warner that Netflix devalues movies and TV shows.

Warner starts movie service on Facebook

Loop Telecom on Wednesday gave an offer to the government to auction its licence and spectrum in over 21 circles.

Loop tells court has had enough, offers to return spectrum, licence

It was not so long back when 3G technology made a quiet entry to India in 2008 with BSNL and MTNL and after three years of political churnings, is today every telecom subscribers's war cry. Every telecom player has tie-ups with VAS players and a large chunk of their revenue comes from them. Most top VAS companies only have 1-2 products that give them 80 per cent of their revenues.

Infotainment, mobile video demand to increase with 3G

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