Information technology companies in India are intensifying their employee referral programmes, besides doubling the referral money and other perks for niche, &lsquo;hard-to-find&rsquo; positions, even as the IT industry is steadily treading the growth path post the economic downturn for almost 18 months.

IT employee referrals gather steam

Business Standard

Virgin Mobile has launched GSM services in six telecom circles, including Uttar Pradesh (East), UP (West), Madhya Pradesh &amp; Chhattisgarh, Haryana, Kolkata and Bihar.

Virgin Mobile launches GSM services in 6 telecom circles

The Bombay High Court today issued a stay order on the showcause notice sent by the Income Tax (I-T) Department to British telecom major Vodafone.

High court stays tax notice to Vodafone Essar

Admitting that there is a lot of scope in 3D animation, industry experts at 'Perspectives' seminar held on Tuesday also added that aspirants should focus on 2D animation as well. A joint effort of Arena Animation, animation and multimedia training firm, and Rayudu Vision Media Limited (RVML), makers of the 2D animation feature, 'Lava Kusa - The Warrior Twins', 'Perspectives' was held to promote the animation industry.

'Animation aspirants should focus on 2D equally'

Bharti Airtel, the country&rsquo;s largest mobile telecom service provider, today announced completion of its deal to acquire the African assets of Kuwait&rsquo;s biggest phone company, Mobile Telecommunications Company, also known as Zain, at an enterprise value of $10.7 billion (Rs 50,660 crore).

Bharti buys Zain Africa for $10 bn

People can now link their Yahoo! and Facebook accounts to view and share updates, a move that will enable the search engine to reach out to a wide audience in the social networking space with its sites and services.

Yahoo! to import personal updates from Facebook

Press Trust of India

The IT industry, led by the BPO industry, is expected to grow by 13 to 15 per cent in 2010-11 fiscal, industry body Nasscom said today.

IT industry to grow by 13-15% in FY11: Nasscom

The anti-outsourcing lobby is finding its feet again in the form of a US senator carving out a new bill for the Congress anvil. Indian BPOs are perturbed but not too worried, as they prefer to wait and watch. The legislation in question is a new anti-offshoring bill that will impose an excise tax of 25 per cent on companies that transfer domestic customer service inquiries to foreign call centers.

Nasscom 'Chucks' Schumer Bill

The company has just launched an extensive brand campaign to showcase its latest tariff plan.

Uninor's dynamic pricing

&ldquo;The appraisal season generally puts a halt to the hiring activity for most companies which is why we see the dip in the May index,&rdquo; said Sumeet Singh, national head, marketing and communication, Info Edge.

City job index goes up

7Seas Technologies Limited, a Hyderabad-based independent game development company, will be launching 30 more online games during the current financial year at an investment of Rs 1 crore.

7Seas Tech lines up 30 more online games

The 250,000 citizens of Songdo, a business district which borders the Yellow Sea in Incheon, a free economic zone in South Korea, are seeing hectic activity. Every nook and corner is being wired. The idea is to have everything connected &mdash; buildings, cars and even energy grids.

Cities, Buildings are becoming smarter

Soccer frenzy on the web is reaching new highs with FIFA World Cup debuting on June 11. India ranks third, following South Africa and Indonesia, leaving all the other European countries behind. In 2009, India did not even feature in the top 10 list of countries searching for FIFA world cup online, notes search giant Google.

India pips European nations in FIFA search

India has registered a total of 1.037 million .com and .net domain names, according to the latest Domain Name Industry Brief (DNIB) by VeriSign.

Over 1 mn .com, .net domain names in India

Vodafone Essar today launched its e-topUp 96, offering internet services on mobile phones for its prepaid customers in Himachal Pradesh.

Vodafone internet offer

Leading mobile handset maker Nokia suffered 15 per cent decline in India revenue to over Rs 14,000 crore but Chinese telecom equipment maker Huawei grew by an impressive over 76 per cent at Rs 11,000 crore in 2009-10, says a study.

Nokia revenues dip, Huawei crosses Rs 10K cr in 2009-10: study

South African cellular giant MTN today said it had terminated its discussions with Orascom Telecom on a potential deal, to acquire some or all of its businesses.

MTN, Orascom talks collapse

Barclaycard, part of US-based Barclays&rsquo; global and retail banking division, is in talks with Firstsource, the Mumbai-based business process outsourcing (BPO) company, for an outsourcing contract.

Barclaycard, Firstsource may ink outsourcing deal

The first four months of 2010 has brought back an optimism on the hiring front with the job index moving in a positive direction in Bangalore. It has especially been very positive in the IT sector.

Naukri.com survey hints at strong hiring trends in city

Infotel Broadband Services emerged as the sole pan-India winner in the auction of broadband wireless access (BWA) spectrum. The auction that concluded today yielded revenue of Rs 38,617 crore for the government.

Infotel secures pan-India BWA spectrum licence

The task force would have many working groups, consisting of experts and members from various stakeholders. Subsequently, an Indian IPv6 centre for innovation would be formed to enable the smooth transition of the technologies, a ministry official said.

DoT sets up task force to upgrade IP version

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