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o f “Let us never negotiate OUT OF FEAR. But let us never fear to negotiate” –John F. Kennedy. NFOLIO TEAM: Chief Coordinator: Subin Amarnathan; Coordinator: Smita Philip Consultants: Saloni. FEEDBACK: [email protected] O i l IT-ITES NEWS YOU SHOULDN”T M I S S Continued… Apple Acquires Spotsetter, A Social Search Engine for Places (Techcrunch) Dropbox Acquires Stealth Messaging Startup Droptalk (Techcrunch) Who’s Hiring/Fir ing? E-commerce hiring to grow 30 per cent on Amazon, local players' push (TimesofIndia) Online hiring rises 19% in May: Report (TimesofIndia) It’s 'internship time' at Facebook, Google, Apple (TimesofIndia) IBM spends heavily on contract staffing in India (TimesofIndia) Wipro plans to expand workforce in Ireland (TimesofIndia) Cisco’s India unit won’t cut jobs in routers business (TimesofIndia) Barclays to axe 19,000 jobs under revival plan (TimesofIndia) Hewlett-Packard may cut another 16,000 jobs (TimesofIndia) Other updates Smaller IT companies gain from Infosys’s talent exodus (TimesofIndia) Mphasis's ex-CFO Ganesh Murthy joins as Dell CFO (TimesofIndia) Narayan appointed Capgemini HR head (Thehindubusinessline) Mindtree elevates Rostow Ravanan as executive director, appoints Manisha Girotra to its Board of Directors (TimesofIndia) Cisco Rejigs India Ops, Appoints Malkani as President Sales (NDTV) Head of eBay's PayPal unit steps down to join Facebook (TimesofIndia) Addwiser Pick of the Month How to Negotiate with Someone More Powerful than You (HBR) July 2014 / 59 C-EX/ Addwiser ++ Google Introduces “Google My Business,” A New One-Stop Shop to Help Business Get Found Online (Techcrunch) Industry Updates (IT-ITES) Workspace of the future: Everywhere (TimesofIndia) Exodus@Infosys: Global sales head quits, joins Dell (TimesofIndia) Indian women pick tougher, growth-oriented jobs: Survey (TimesofIndia) E-commerce may create up to 50,000 jobs in India (TimesofIndia) Launches & Innovation Google offers 'time travel' through Street View (TimesofIndia) Infosys launches solution for pharmaceutical companies (TimesofIndia) IBM to take on Google, Microsoft with BlueMix (TimesofIndia) Cisco unveils Android PCs, cloud service for video conferencing (TimesofIndia) Deals & Expansions Polaris Financial Technology bags contract from Swedish Central Bank (TimesofIndia) Twitter Acquires Mobile Advertising Startup Namo Media (NDTV) Facebook Inc acquires mobile data plan firm Pryte (Economic times) NetApp inks storage solutions deal from ING Vysya (TimesofIndia) Wipro inks deal with SAP for mobility services (TimesofIndia) Microsoft allies with Salesforce.com in cloud push (TimesofIndia) Infosys deploys e-banking solution for Al Hilal Bank (TimesofIndia) Pegasystems Acquires Co-Browsing Tool Firefly, The First Investment By First Round’s Dorm Room Fund (Techcrunch) Samsung Inks $500M Wireless Patent Deal with InterDigital (Techcrunch) Google buying satellite maker Skybox for $500 million (TimesofIndia) Geometric bags CAD, PLM deal from Volvo Cars (TimesofIndia) Juniper Networks inks partnership with Aruba Networks (TimesofIndia) Capgemini to Deliver Finance and Accounting Services to NBCUniversal International (Business wire) Continued… Flipkart, Myntra merge in Rs 2,000 crore deal (TimesofIndia) Vishal Sikka to be Infosys CEO, Murthy to step down (TimesofIndia) Health Brief Processed food hurts your Immune System – And your kid’s too (TIME) Calm down: Facebook sint manipulating your emotion (TIME) Job Brief TPF Professional. B’lore. MNC. 5+yrs exp. Director. B’lore. Top MNC. 15-20 yrs exp. Practice Head - PEGA: B’lore. MNC. 10+ years exp. Python professional. Noida. MNC. 1 – 4 yrs exp. Mention job title in the subject & send your updated resumes to: [email protected] Eco – Products Brief 5 Furniture Brands that don’t contribute to deforestation 10 Awesome Cruelty-Free Personal Care Product Brands NEWS
