July 27th, 2008 OCC Kolkata organized its first meet of entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs wannabes. Overall 7 people attended including the convener Mitesh (nice job by a fresh engg.

January 6th, 2009 HYDERABAD - Satyam founder B. Ramalinga Raju, who shocked India by admitting massive fraud over several years, was the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year in 2007 and the company won the Golden Peacock Global Award for Excellence in Corporate Governance given by the World Council for Corporate Governance.

January 11th, 2009 HYDERABAD - The three-member board appointed by the central government to bring back financial order to the fraud-hit Satyam Computer Services began its meeting here Monday. A Satyam spokesperson said the meeting began at the company's headquarters in Hitec City at 11 a.m.

November 24th, 2008 Google has launched a new Searchwiki service to provide users with a more personalized and interactive search option. There is a place where you can add your comment and publicize the comment for others to view of any page from any website.

July 21st, 2006 I was recently asked why do we keep donating our smartest people to other countries? It reminded me of a story of Gautama Buddha, founder of Buddhism. Once he was passing by a village full of very good and very bright people.

January 6th, 2009 HYDERABAD - Satyam was the brand image of Andhra Pradesh, Hyderabad was identified with this company, and its founder-chairman B. Ramalinga Raju was a hero to youngsters.

June 30th, 2009 From this day, Simple Thoughts is starting up a series of interviews with prominent entrepreneurs from India and all over the world. In our first endeavor, we managed to do a tête-à-tête with Khushnood Naqvi, co-founder of a very useful online travel search service, 90di.

September 29th, 2005 Nicholas Negroponte, the co-founder of the Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, detailed specifications for a $100 windup-powered laptop targeted at children in developing nations. Negroponte, who laid out his original proposal at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, in January, said MIT and his nonprofit group, called One Laptop Per Child, is in discussions with five countries - Brazil, China, Thailand, Egypt and South Africa - to distribute up to 15 million test systems to children.

January 30th, 2008 Imagine Company X provides a service. X is nice enough to offer it for free to education and non-profit sites.

March 3rd, 2009 While Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was bragging the release of the 7th version of Windows in a CES keynote speech on 9 Jan, those struggling with VIsta bugs were certainly looking up with penance. It was something of what Garrison Keillor once expressed, I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.

April 24th, 2009 NEW DELHI - As small and medium businesses in India struggle to stay afloat during the global economic slowdown, they are opting for cheaper computing services, and a Boston-based entrepreneur is here to promote his solution, cloud computing, in which software is shared over a wide network of computers. Sumeet Sabharwal, senior vice-president of outsourcing and IT hosting firm Navisite Inc, says cloud computing is a viable Internet model for small and medium businesses across India, especially in the technology hubs in and around the capital and in Bangalore.

March 12th, 2009 MUMBAI - Satyam Computer Services has begun the procedure of selecting an investor by inviting expressions of interest from bidders. SEBI has recently authorized Satyam to sell up to 51 percent stake.

January 29th, 2009 NEW DELHI - India’s first home-grown wind technology company Suzlon Energy Friday reported a net loss of Rs.3.9 billion for the quarter ended Dec 31 as compared to net profit of Rs.3.38 billion in the corresponding period last fiscal. The company's total income, too, decreased to Rs.15.47 billion for the third quarter from Rs.16.83 billion last year, a company statement said.

April 14th, 2009 CHENNAI - City-based banking, financial services and insurance software company Polaris Software Lab Ltd will invest $20 million to set up a centre for excellence for insurance near Chennai, a top official said Tuesday. 'The eight-storey centre will house 2,500 employees and will be completed in 18 months,' Arun Jain, chairman and chief executive of Polaris, told reporters at the foundation stone laying ceremony.

January 12th, 2009 HYDERABAD - Former interim CEO of Satyam Computer Services Ram Mynampati is in the US, the company clarified Tuesday while denying reports that he had been arrested by Andhra Pradesh police. A Satyam spokesperson said Mynampati was meeting clients in the US and the reports of his arrest and interrogation were not true.