Monthly Archives: April 2009

IT Companies

April 11, 2009 – 8:14 am

Infosys has fired 2100 employees and  a confirmation from ex-Infosys employees about layoffs.  The problem is that when you provide services to only a few major customers, your fortunes are tied to how well their business does.  Compared to developing a product, providing a service is not very risky , but is very labour intensive.  [...]

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Google

April 8, 2009 – 5:44 am

Though Google’s official motto is  “Do no evil” , they certainly do hire evil employees.  Internet marketer sues Google employee . When I was using Adsense on my websites , I always felt that the code was used to track the websites  I owned , how I marketed them, how I gathered content for my [...]

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Venture Capital Funding

April 5, 2009 – 2:15 pm

This post on  Google’s venture capital arm  Google Ventures , summarises what  I have believed for long Corporate venture capital, according to many, constricts innovation rather than foster it. I’m inclined to go with the view, particularly as speculationGoogle launching a venture capital arm called Google Ventures. The Mountain View, California-headquartered search giant has not [...]

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