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GM –Director Mobilty: Operations and profit center Experience (with 15+ years exp) for New Delhi, top IT/ITES company Mention job title in the subject & send your updated resumes to: [email protected] O i l IT-ITES NEWS YOU SHOULDN”T M I S S Continued… HCL Tech bags multi-million dollar contract in US (Times of India) http://bit.ly/18pcupn IBM acquires UK-based software-maker Daeja (Times of India) http://bit.ly/18GppiF Who’s Hiring/Firing? Tata Consultancy Services hires 51 BIT Sindri students (Times of India) http://bit.ly/1769PDx On Semiconductor to cut up to 870 jobs at Sanyo (Times of India) http://bit.ly/1ficg8n Infosys reduces staff strength of R&D arm (Times of India) http://bit.ly/1fhLCfP Semiconductor design company eInfochips to hire 600 engineers (Times of India) http://bit.ly/17xCb3O Alcatel-Lucent to cut 10,000 jobs: Reports (Times of India) http://bit.ly/1feHwF9 Fujitsu to hire 10,000 at Pune centre (Times of India) http://bit.ly/1f2cMqW Amazon to hire 70,000 seasonal workers (Times of India) http://bit.ly/1eW3Q6 Siemens to slash 15,000 jobs (Times of India) http://bit.ly/1eTaavm BlackBerry planning to lay off 40% employees: WSJ (Times of India) http://bit.ly/18bee5w Other updates Infosys Q2 results: Attrition continues to rise (Times of India) http://bit.ly/1c7r1a0 Software firm Collabera appoints new CEO (Times of India) http://bit.ly/1f4MsMS Wipro appoints Ireena Vittal to its board (Times of India) http://bit.ly/GFJMXx Infosys senior executive Kartik Jayaraman quits, joins Accenture (Times of India) http://bit.ly/19WFhCB Mindtree appoints Paul Gottsegen as marketing and strategy head (Livemint) http://bit.ly/1bqar53 Addwiser Pick of the Month Why Your Attitude is Everything (Success.com) http://bit.ly/GzyfJA October 2013 / 52 C-EX/ Addwiser ++ YouTube coming soon to TVs in India (Times of India) http://bit.ly/1glOOGd Industry Updates (IT-ITES) Apax buys GlobalLogic, IT outsourcing firm founded by four IITians, for $420 million (Times of India) http://bit.ly/1e7zsCU Google unveils plans for user names, comments to appear in ads (Reuters) http://reut.rs/17uV5Y9 Lenovo tops global PC market (Times of India) http://bit.ly/1fkY2mX HP Says “All Hands on Deck” Needed, Requiring Most Employees to Work at the Office (Allthingsd) http://dthin.gs/GGwOsk Launches & Innovation Mindtree unveils surveillance software (Times of India) http://bit.ly/16SRoiC HP unveils cybersecurity solutions for enterprises in India (Times of India) http://bit.ly/1dv5l8r CA Technologies launches free IT resources monitoring tool (Times of India) http://bit.ly/1flqR2S Nucleus Software launches mobile version of FinnOne (Times of India) http://bit.ly/1bcfPIN Oracle launches 10 new services on cloud (Times of India) http://bit.ly/18oCbGC Google unveils Chrome OS-powered HP laptop (Times of India) http://bit.ly/1bUQx2f Oracle Introduces StorageTek Linear Tape File System, Library Edition (Marketwatch) http://on.mktw.net/1c1t8j2 Capgemini Announces an Insurance Platform as a Service Offering (Yahoo finance) http://yhoo.it/1c1tjLo Deals & Expansions Facebook Buys Mobile Data Analytics Company Onavo (Techcrunch) http://tcrn.ch/1aDcAbV Yahoo Acquires Bread, Will Shut Down The URL Shortener That Earned You Money (Techcrunch) http://tcrn.ch/GSLULS Infosys, TCS bag IT contract from US utilities firm (Hindu Business line) http://bit.ly/15NG04q Software firm Compucom Software bags Rs 158 cr Rajasthan govt deal (Times of India) http://bit.ly/19WCt8p Apple buys personal assistant app Cue (Times of India) http://bit.ly/1bPHAan Zensar bags multi-million dollar deals in manufacturing (Times of India) http://bit.ly/1fHB7CH Infosys, IBM bag Rs 2,535 crore RBS deal (Times of India) http://bit.ly/1eTQqaP Tech Mahindra bags outsourcing deal from Volvo (Times of India) http://bit.ly/184Lmrv Cognizant acquires Equinox Consulting (Times of India) http://bit.ly/1g35ke1 Infosys bags multi-year contract from Toyota (Times of India) http://bit.ly/1bzpnxH Google acquires Indian-led company Flutter (Times of India) http://bit.ly/1f1N9X4 HCL Tech bags multi-million dollar contract in US (Times of India) http://bit.ly/18pcupn IBM acquires UK-based software-maker Daeja (Times of India) http://bit.ly/18GppiF Continued… Google introduces new "Hummingbird" search algorithm (Reuters) http://reut.rs/18s7Tmn Microsoft BCG Research reveals IT helps fuel revenue and job growth among Indian SME's (Economic Times) http://bit.ly/1aUWb2L