Microsoft keeps dividend at 13 cents, backs shareholder right to call special meetingsJune 11th, 2009 Microsoft affirms dividend, backs meeting proposal
REDMOND, Wash. — Microsoft Corp.
IBM forecasts $9.20 profit per share - Do you have your stocks ready?May 14th, 2009 IBM backs full-year profit forecast
NEW YORK — IBM Corp. is again backing its forecast for profit of $9.20 per share this year.
World Bank blacklists Satyam for eight yearsDecember 22nd, 2008 NEW DELHI - Satyam Computers' cup of woes seems to be overflowing, with news surfacing Tuesday that the software vendor has been debarred by the World Bank for alleged data theft and bribing bank officials. Fox News, a US-based broadcaster, said the World Bank has admitted to it that it had banned Satyam from all business at the bank for a period of eight years - and that the ban started in September.
Tech Mahindra to complete Satyam's 75-mn dollars Australian projectJuly 1st, 2009 MELBOURNE - Tech Mahindra, the new owner of troubled Indian IT services firm Satyam, has for the first time confirmed its continued commitment to a 75 million dollars software development project in Geelong, Australia. There were grave concerns that the project would be axed after Satyam Computer Services founder and chairman, B.
Commercial taxes can be paid online in GoaFebruary 10th, 2009 PANAJI - Goa will launch 'Cyber Treasury', a state-wide area network that enables entrepreneurs to pay commercial taxes, including value-added tax (VAT), online, state Finance Secretary Udipta Ray said here Wednesday. Chief Minister Digambar Kamat will inaugurate the project at a national conference on e-governance to be held in Goa Feb 12-13, she told reporters.
Satyam pulls out of $75 mn Australian projectSeptember 11th, 2009 CANBERA - Mahindra Satyam has pulled out of a $75 million software development project that the disgraced Satyam founder had promised to set up in Australia's Geelong city, media reports said Friday. Sujit Baksi, the company's president of corporate affairs, formally conveyed the decision to the government of Victoria state through a letter addressed to provincial IT Minister John Lenders, the Australian daily reported.
Microsoft wants to be part of unique identity project: GatesJuly 24th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Terming the unique identity project as a "great initiative", Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates Friday said the software giant wanted to partner with India in the ambitious project that will give a unique identity number to each of its citizens. "Microsoft wants to be a part of the unique identification project," Gates told a conference organised by the IT industry lobby, National Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom).
Satyam pulls out of Oz university development projectSeptember 11th, 2009 MELBOURNE - Mahindra Satyam has pulled out of a 75 million dollars software development project at Deakin University that was set to create 2000 jobs in Geelong, Victoria. The company's president of corporate affairs, Sujit Baksi, informed the state government of its intention in a letter to IT minister John Lenders.
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Maytas Infra loses second project in OrissaFebruary 2nd, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - Maytas Infra - the infrastructure company floated by the promoter-family of scam-tainted Satyam Computer Services - has lost another project in Orissa. Hyderabad-based KVK Energy, which is setting up a Rs.50-billion (Rs.5,000-crore), 1,050 MW coal-fired power project in Cuttack district, Tuesday said Maytas was no longer its joint venture partner.
Kerala, Dubai firm to discuss delayed Kochi project WednesdaySeptember 8th, 2009 THIRUVANANTHAPURAM - Kerala Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan Tuesday told the Kerala assembly that talks would begin with Smart City Dubai Wednesday to take forward the proposed Smart City Kochi software township project.
Talks on stalled Kerala project to commence next monthAugust 21st, 2009 KOCHI - Talks will resume next month with Smart City Dubai to take forward the proposed Smart City Kochi project, a Rs.1,500-crore ($316-million) software township, according to Fisheries Minister and project chairman S. Sarma. The Kerala government has intimated to Smart City Dubai - a Dubai-based company that is into setting up self-sustained townships for knowledge-based industries - that the talks could be held over two days between Sep 7 and Sep 10, Sarma told reporters here Friday.
Two-day talks on Kochi IT township inconclusiveSeptember 10th, 2009 THIRUVANANTHAPURAM - The two-day talks between the Kerala government and Smart City Dubai to take forward the proposed Smart City Kochi software township project turned out to be inconclusive, but both parties were confident that the deadlock would be broken. Emerging after the meeting, Chief Secretary Neela Gangadharan, who led the Kerala delegation, said discussions were yet to be concluded and would continue.
Dubai IT firm wants freehold land from Kerala governmentApril 21st, 2009 THIRUVANANTHAPURAM - The proposed Rs.15-billion Smart City Kochi IT park Tuesday suffered a setback after Smart City Dubai, which has signed a pact with the state government to develop the project, said it wanted the freehold land issue resolved. This was informed in a press release, issued Tuesday by Smart City Dubai chief executive Fareed Abdulrahman, who said they were assigned to Smart City Kochi and still heavily involved in the development of the project and had not pulled back from their roles and responsibilities.
CDM Authority Goes HitechMarch 19th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The National CDM Authority (NCDMA) in the Ministry of Environment and Forests took a further step in applying the principles of e-governance by launching a new website today. It will enable CDM project proponents to file applications and upload their project documents directly from the comfort of their offices.
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