As this article indicates, corporate espionage is widespread in India today , and some Indian companies are very careless about their internal security systems. With the lifestyle people lead, “integrity is the cheapest commodity that can be purchased in India today” and I will write more about it later. In the internet sector, you will [...]
These articles on Cybercrime networks in Mumbai and the e-crooks confirms what something that has troubled me for the last two years. From the article The latter two cases indicate social engineering, where the victim has been spied on and cultivated. The Pune man had to have had a reason to believe he had African [...]
Nice article on what happens to female school and college toppers in India , more than 50% end up wasting their talent and skills. Most of the women who are showcased by the media belong to a rich/ famous family – they are some one’s wife / daughter / daughter-in-law / girlfriend and owe their [...]
India Today, India’s largest magazine publisher is not going to spend any more money on digital media, they are not getting the returns they want. You can make money from content, but you have to keep your overheads really low. Most big Indian media companies have plush offices and highly paid employees( very important for [...]
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. [...]
So salaries are being reduced in the mainstream media companies, earlier there was talk of layoffs too. Unlike the developed countries where major newspapers are closing their print editions, the mainstream media has flourished in India in the last few years. However, at least for the English language papers, it is going to be a [...]
March 14, 2009 – 10:44 am
This recent ragging death has got a lot of media coverage. The students who suffer the most are those who stay in hostels, usually 17 or 18 years , living far away from their parents for the first time. Its been a long time, but from what I remember from my hostel days, those who [...]
So Nirmala Venkatesh has been removed from the National Commission of Women for stating what 95% (or more) of the population of India feels about the incident – in most parts of India, wearing skimpy clothes is asking for trouble. I once met a British lady tourist at Jaipur airport, the first thing she asked [...]
February 25, 2009 – 3:24 am
Harvard’s declining endowment funds – shows that most investment bankers are grossly overpaid, just because they handle the money, they get very high salaries and bonuses. Few have the judgement or foresight to take the correct decisions. A comment is even more interesting (the best part of Rediff are the comments) The worst fall-out of [...]
February 16, 2009 – 4:35 am
IT firms and the Indian market - I come from a non IT and internet background and have been very surprised how arrogant most IT and internet companies in India are. In engineering, even if you worked for the largest company in the industry and your customer was a very small company, you always tried [...]