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  • Mahindra Satyam revamps sales team

    Mahindra Satyam has hired at least 35 new sales managers and five industry vertical heads as it makes targeted efforts to win new clients and get more business from existing clients. The software exporter is looking to win large outsourcing contracts from banks, manufacturers and healthcare firms as it targets $5 billion (Rs 29,365 crore) in sales by 2015. "Clearly, the focus is on winning ...

  • Telcos offer average salary hike of 7

    MUMBAI: Wages across India's telecom sector have risen by an average 7% this year, with smaller companies loosening their purse strings a little more than their larger peers in a sluggish market. The pay increase at market ...

  • Microsoft mulled buying Nokias mobile phone unit WSJ

    Microsoft was previously considering a plan to boost its position in the mobile phone market by buying the devices business from Nokia, The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday. The Journal cited unnamed sources as saying the US technology titan and the pioneering Finnish mobile phone company were involved in serious talks that recently faltered. Microsoft has been striving to gain ground ...

  • Wipro wins deal worth $500m from Citigroup

    Wipro will provide application development and maintenance, and infrastructure services for Citi's global operations. The five-year engagement requires Wipro to set up an offshore delivery centre in Bangalore, said sources familiar with the development. When TOI contacted Wipro, the company said it does not comment on market speculation. Citi too declined to comment on what they call market ...

  • Google to open Android Nation retail stores in India

    Google is now vying for a piece of the retail market with brick-and-mortar stores called Android Nation. The US company will partner BK Modi's Spice Global to set up the stores in various Indian cities, starting with New Delhi later this year. Like other such stores in Indonesia, ...

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The Grifters

grift: (v) to engage in swindling or cheating; to obtain by grifting -- The American Heritage College Dictionary Stephen Frears' "The Grifters" is almost too cynical and mean-spirited for its own good. In its attempt to expose the gritty underbelly of the con game, it makes itself into something like "The Sting" with a hard-edged existential bite to it. All the characters are swindlers, a ... ...

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  • LinkedIn suffers site outage due to DNS issue

    (Credit: LinkedIn) LinkedIn is battling a DNS issue that took the business social networking site offline for an hour Wednesday night. The outage, which appears to be over for most of LinkedIn's members, began when the site's homepage was replaced by a domain sales page ...

  • iPad Mini Retinas display is a moving target Heres why

    Apple faces some tough choices when deciding on a display technology for the upcoming iPad Mini. That results in vagaries in suppliers' production ...

  • Successor to Optimus G will sport Snapdragon 800 processor

    The successor to LG's flagship smartphone Optimus G will be powered by the speedy Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 processor, the companies announced Wednesday ...

  • Best Buy recalls MacBook Pro replacement batteries due to burn hazards

    (Credit: CNET) After a U.S. government agency received 13 reports of battery fires, including one that caused a "serious burn" to the user's leg, Best Buy has decided to recall thousands of replacement batteries for Apple's MacBook Pro laptops. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety ...

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