January 30th, 2007
HR departments in the Indian IT industry are getting upset due to "No Show" of new hires. According to a Business Line estimate, in June 05 approximately 60-65% of new hires didn't show up after accepting a job offer (in the Indian IT industry).
No Show Behaviour is unprofessional. HR Officers are feeling pinched, blaming candidates, and setting up […]
By Ujwal Tickoo -- 6 comments
January 23rd, 2007
BusinessWeek has published component cost estimates of popular hardware gadgets done by a Silicon Valley market research firm, iSuppli. According to iSuppli Apple Computer Inc. (AAPL) aims for a 50% Gross Margin (Revenue - Cost of Goods Sold). By tearing apart 1st Generation 2 GB iPod Nano, iSuppli estimated that the cost of components for the gadget was $ […]
By Ujwal Tickoo -- 7 comments
January 17th, 2007
Continued From: India's President APJ Abdul Kalam asks Question on Yahoo Answers
The simplicity of Yahoo! Answers is at the source of its surging popularity. Anyone can ask questions or provide answers. Yahoo's Rating and Reviews platform gives Reputation points to participants. Highly rated answers build a participants Reputation incentivising good participation.
Google Answers on the other hand has been retired. […]
By Ujwal Tickoo -- 5 comments
January 17th, 2007
Dr APJ Abdul Kalam, India's well loved president, is currently seeking an answer to his question "What should we do to free our planet from terrorism?" on Yahoo! Answers. His thought provoking question, posted 5 days ago, has till now garnered over 7000 answers :
Human society, from origin until now, has always been at war within and between […]
By Ujwal Tickoo -- 21 comments
January 9th, 2007
CNNMoney.com has published a report which predicts that Amazon, Google, eBay, and Yahoo! – 4 Consumer Internet Brands would be amongst 2007's top 10 Brands. The report is based on a study by Landor Associates, a strategic brand and design consulting company based in San Francisco. (Landor is part of WPP, one of the world's largest global communications services […]
By Ujwal Tickoo -- 1 comment
January 6th, 2007
IIM Bangalore and Stanford GSB – top Business Schools located in the Silicon Valleys of India (Bangalore) and US have taken the first steps to bringing their students closer and deeping knowledge exchange.
Its the perfect move. Stanford GSB for sure would love to have IIM B as a partner to help its students, researchers, and faculty to […]
By Ujwal Tickoo -- 1 comment
January 5th, 2007
If you are a serious Netizen you would have visited Wikipedia for finding comprehensive information on all sorts of subjects — from History and Economics to Famous People, Technologies, and Corporations. However, I have often been frustrated by the density of content on certain subjects.
If Wikipedia intends to be a free universally accessible Encyclopedia on the internet […]
By Ujwal Tickoo -- 4 comments
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