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Mr. Rajiv Shah is appointed as the Chief Executive Officer of IBS, to enhance the management bandwidth and capability in preparation for the planned IPO in 2012, and the operation of IBS as a listed company thereafter. Rajiv Shah, as CEO, will take responsibility for the operation of our business worldwide and will report to VK Mathews in his role as Executive Chairman. VK will now focus more on strategy, direction, key accounts and our preparations for the IPO. Rajiv Shah ( link at Wipro ) has over 25 years of experience with more than 15 years in senior executive roles managing several businesses globally either as chief executive officer or head of big business units, including EDS (USA and India), Cofuture (Kerry Packer Co, Australia), Wipro Technologies (USA), Bharti Telecom (India). Rajivs last assignment has been with Wipro Technologies, operating from Boston, USA (2003-11), heading initially Wipros Securities & Capital Markets business as Chief Executive, and later head...

Who will occupy Leela InfoPark Technopark Trivandrum? Oracle? IBM? Mindtree? CTS? UST Global? UPDATE 1:Nocme Technologies Pvt Ltd, Ground Floor, Leela Infopark, Technopark Campus, Trivandrum 695 581 Website : www.nocme.com

Tech-a-break 2010 starting from 19.February.2010- Monday and we have 6 days of celebrations and competitions Ending with a Mega Event on 26.February.2010-Sunday. Celebrations include inter-company music and Dance competitions and sports. UPDATE: It is "NEST Tech-a-break 2010" . The logo was made by Toonz Animation some years back. The programme details are given below: The event opens up with Rally, a colorful ground set to tease, thrill and enchant the competitors with colorful inaugural rally The schedule for Technopark Tech-a-break 2010 is: February 19th, Friday Solo Western Music,        Slumdog Millionaire February 20th, Saturday Solo Light Music,          Techie Superstars (Group Song) February 22nd, Monday Solo Classical Music,    Rally February 23rd, Tuesday Lights Camera Action!,  Fashion Show February 24th, Wednesday          ...

UST Global is a US-based IT software and services company with majority of its operations in Kerala. Saw this piece of news in "The Economic Times". "Our growth has so far been organic. But, we are open to acquisitions if they have advantages in new technology areas and help us to grow in markets like Europe and Asia. But, they should have a good culture so that it can be smoothly integrated with ours", UST Global CFO Krishna Sudheendra told ET in Chennai. UST Global recently acquired a testing company in Canada and an e-commerce company in the US. Its largest vertical is healthcare, garnering 40% of revenues. The company's strategy has so far been on saving costs by setting up its development centres in Kerala, which still remains a low cost destination compared to Chennai and other major cities. "The Kerala government, through the downturn, has been strict that there should be no layoffs. But, they have been providing us other sops," Mr Sudheendra...

Just saw a news in Asianet about AryansInfoway. This scam was predicted last year . Students were given campus placement from Bangalore, Rajasthan, West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh and other remote locations offered 10k salary against 1 lakh bond for 3 years.. As the above new shows, a case has been registered against AryansInfoway at Thampanoor police Station in Trivandrum. Complaint also filed at Technopark. These type of problems happen because no one cannot do anything against firms like these since the employees of the companies oppose this.

2007 batch of students are being asked to wait till January 2009... ( due to space constraints?) 1000s of graduates :( This is regarding the Training letter and the e-mail on the training schedule dated 14th November 2007. We would like to inform you that the scheduled training program has been postponed, due to business reasons. The revised date for the training will be communicated to you in January 2009. For any further clarifications, please e-mail at campus.relations@ust-global.com or call us at 0471-4042200 Note: Help Desk is available from 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM and 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM, on week days. Regards, Manager -HR The media releases are quite different though... UST Global to go in for more buys Sanjeev Ramachandran / Chennai/ Thiruvananthapuram August 29, 2008, 2:11 IST Company to finalise a few deals in the next 90 days. UST Global, an IT services and solutions provider for the Global 2000 market, has zeroed in on a handful of technology players for acquisitions this year. ...

Technopark( God's own Park ), Thiruvananthapuram, is celebrating its 12th year of formal existence. The 242 acre campus(last year it was 180 acre campus), having 140 companies(in 2007 it was 110) with over 17500 IT professionals will be in pursuit of rejuvenation, fun, frolic and thrill. Technopark is organizing Tech-a-Break-2008, the annual cultural celebration in the month of April 2008. The exciting week-long celelebrations will start with a colorful inaugural rally on April 18th. There will be inter company music, dance and sports competitions (tug-of-war :D), concerts, quiz and a mega closing ceremony. Technopark site says "The festival will commence on 18th April and culminate on 27th April with a musical extravaganza, that should blow the socks off even last year's celebrations (and that's a hard act to follow�). Come join the fun...!" In 2005 percussionist Shivamani, in 2006 singer Sonu Nigam and in 2007 Shankar Mahadevan performed live at closing ceremon...

Last friday 25th Jan at the technopark amphitheater Mohanlal released the music album, "Voice of the Park". It was a viral marketing event sponsored by Oceanus ( "Constructive Ideas ;)" ) Visit the incomplete official website of 'Voice of the park' album here http://www.voiceofthepark.in Technopark’s talent takes a musical turn Hindu, India - Jan 25, 2008 Thiruvananthapuram: A group of debutant artistes from among the employees at Technopark launched their first music album — Voice of the Park — here on ... Finding poetry beyond code: Techies go musical CNN-IBN, India - 7 hours ago SERIOUS NOTES: What may look like a brainstorming session on some new software is actually a group of techies composing tunes. The museum displays Islamic ... Techies’ voice Newindpress, India - Jan 26, 2008 ‘Voice of the Park,’ an album by music-minded techies of the Technopark, was released here on Friday by actor Mohanlal. Around 25 musicians and supporting ... Software engi...

UPDATE2: Aryans Infoway Technopark is closed. Click to read about aryans-infoway-news on asianet . UPDATES: Changed title of this post . Removed my opinion I expressed about Aryans InfoWay's "security deposit and 3 year bond" . I don't know anything about the company or the projects it have... Read about Travancore Software Solution controversy. TSS chief seeks anticipatory bail Express News Service T’PURAM: Shyam Subramanyam, CEO of the controversial company at Technopark, Travancore Software Solutions, has approached the District Sessions Court for anticipatory bail. Shyam is an accused in a cheating case filed by the employees of the company. The court has asked the Kazhakoottom police, which has registered the case following complaints submitted by two engineers, to file a report on the bail petition. It is learnt that the police will submit the report on Wednesday. Shyam has been accused of accepting sums ranging from Rs 1 lakh - 1.5 lakh from candidates, promisi...