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O i l IT-ITES NEWS

YOU SHOULDN”T

M I S S

Zensar Technologies bags 270-crore deal from US Heath Insurance

firm- Assurant Health (Economic Times) http://goo.gl/TjJ9Q

VMware Buys Startup Virsto To Fend Off Microsoft (Business

Insider) http://read.bi/Z7WNQR

Amazon buys text-to-speech software company Ivona (Reuters)

http://reut.rs/WQxRYI

Infosys inks deal with National ICT Australia (Times of India)

http://goo.gl/R6uA3

Google signs deal to launch YouTube TV channel (Times of India)

http://goo.gl/fNpJb

Genpact acquires service provider Jawood (Times of India)

http://goo.gl/1dMXA

Wipro ties up with Pingar (Business Line) http://goo.gl/TGw63

Who’s Hiring/Firing?

R&D,quality assurance professionals to see good hiring this yr

(The Economic Times) http://bit.ly/TJP0af

HP to close site in Germany, cutting 850 jobs (Reuters)

http://reut.rs/YISjju

Facebook CEO plans to grow headcount in 2013 (Reuters)

http://reut.rs/Xku3z5

VMware to cut jobs, disappoints with 2013 outlook (Reuters)

http://reut.rs/XaDLEk

Symantec CEO plans layoffs, no asset sales (Reuters)

http://reut.rs/WnoP4z

Dish to close 300 Blockbuster stores, 3,000 jobs may be lost

(Reuters) http://reut.rs/142Y1Nf

Barclays Rolls Out Its Revamp Plans (WSJ) http://goo.gl/E9dm0

Other updates

Apple wakes up to India's potential; iPhone witnesses four-fold

rise in sales in 3 months (Economic Times) http://bit.ly/12wP2F2

Microsoft profit dips ahead of Office revamp (Reuters)

http://reut.rs/14am7FX

TCS names Rajesh Gopinathan as new CFO (Times of India)

http://goo.gl/kLg41

Infosys switches top management roles, names new BPO CEO

(Times of India) http://goo.gl/jDVTX

Roshni Nadar to take over the reins at HCL (Hindutan Times)

http://goo.gl/XaUxK

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Before You Innovate, Ask the Right Questions

(Harvard Business Review)

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Old time-tested metrics can't judge IT; analysts ask for new model (Economic Times)

http://goo.gl/zaZ2k

30 software cos break away from Nasscom, set up

'iSpirt' (Economic Times) http://bit.ly/WIMhfW

Industry Updates (IT-ITES)

LinkedIn beats Street, outstrips social media rivals (Reuters)

http://reut.rs/14WlfFn

Tweet-To-Pay? Twitter Tries For E-Commerce (Business Insider)

http://tcrn.ch/VTp50u

Biz Break: Cisco earnings signal possibility of resurgence for tech,

economy; NetApp, Nvidia, Applied Materials also report (SiliconValley)

http://bit.ly/X6tQ58

India Expects GDP to Grow 5% This Year (WSJ)

http://on.wsj.com/YbWWg0

IT firms like TCS, Infosys & Wipro losing work as MNCs' captive centres

are back into fashion (The Economic Times) http://bit.ly/X8zUGj

Launches & Innovation

IBM takes on rivals with lower priced server range (Reuters)

http://reut.rs/XI3S5H

RIM faces its day of reckoning with BlackBerry 10 launch (Reuters)

http://reut.rs/14tQnMm

Microsoft launches new Office for consumers (Reuters)

http://reut.rs/WO7EKx

Broadcom first LTE chip to compete with Qualcomm (Reuters)

http://reut.rs/YUIvzr

Twitter's new service suggests its future may lie in video (Reuters)

http://reut.rs/149Ku6J

Quick Heal ties up with SoftBank for anti-virus technology

(Economic Times) http://goo.gl/GygId

Autodesk Releases 123D Creature, A Tool To Design, Paint, And Print Your

Own 3D Monsters (Techcrunch) http://goo.gl/5bURK

Deals & Expansions

Alcatel bags 8-year contract from Reliance Communications for over $1

billion (Times of India) http://goo.gl/QlqsX

Oracle Buys Acme Packet (Oracle) http://bit.ly/11ItyQN

Cisco sells home networking business to Belkin (Reuters)

http://reut.rs/WpKzwR and Cisco to buy Israel-based software maker for

$475 million (Times of India) http://goo.gl/JqpFn

Nielsen boosts TCS contract to $2.5 billion (Reuters) http://reut.rs/YSxgr6

Twitter acquires social TV analytics company Bluefin Labs (Reuters)

http://reut.rs/14WlfFn

Google to buy marketing services company for $125 million (Reuters)

http://reut.rs/XLM5e1

AOL Confirms gdgt Acquisition, Quests For tch Domination (Tech Crunch)

http://tcrn.ch/VTp50u

Yahoo! buys scrapbook website Snip.it (Hindustan Times)

http://goo.gl/tn6xJ and snaps up app maker Alike (Times of India)

http://goo.gl/Tm0dK

HCL Technologies signs multi million dollar pact with Cobham

(Economic Times) http://goo.gl/7a6ZC

Deals of the Day: Dell Goes Private

(The Wall Street Journal)

http://on.wsj.com/YAuvdM