Whitman says Calif. needs smaller government, more private-sector jobs to reclaim its promise

September 21st, 2009 Whitman to make Calif. gubernatorial bid officialSACRAMENTO, Calif.

October 10th, 2009 THRISSUR - Kerala Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan Saturday inaugurated the third IT park in the state - Phase 1 of Infopark Koratty - and said that nearly 200,000 jobs in information technology sector would be created in the next two years.

September 10th, 2009 THIRUVANANTHAPURAM - Kerala's IT sector will generate as many as 200,000 jobs in the next five years, state Chief Secretary Neela Gangadharan said Thursday. Inaugurating a conference on IT in Kerala - Challenges and Opportunities, organised by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) here, she said over 200 rural IT Parks (Techno Lodges) are expected to come up in the state in the next two to three years.

February 9th, 2009 LOS ANGELES - Former eBay chief executive officer Meg Whitman has said that she will run for California governor to replace Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2010. 'California faces challenges unlike any other time in its history - a weak and faltering economy, massive job losses, and an exploding state budget deficit,' Whitman said in a written statement Monday.

August 19th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - The Punjab government is offering various sops to information technology (IT) companies operating in the state, including a 24-hour uninterrupted power supply, in order to boost the sector, a government official said here Wednesday. "No economy can grow only on the shoulders of agriculture and we have to give a boost to the IT and service sector.

September 15th, 2009 KOLKATA - Corporate Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid Tuesday urged the Information Technology (IT) sector to spell out its standpoint and suggestions on the Companies Bill which is slated to come up before a standing committee of parliament soon. "We are in the process of moving before the standing committee of parliament the Companies Bill, 2009.

January 14th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The government has no plans to unveil a bailout package for fraud-hit Satyam Computer Services and the company's new board will decide its future course of action, Minister of State for Industry Ashwani Kumar has said. 'This government is not going to either directly or indirectly subsidise the wrongdoing and fraud in Satyam,' Kumar told reporters on the margins of an international conference on petroleum sector here Thursday.

February 9th, 2009 SRINAGAR - The Essar group of industries Tuesday started setting up Jammu and Kashmir's first Business Processing Outsourcing (BPO), which will generate 4,000 jobs in the state that has around 300,000 jobless youth who are often targeted for recruitment by militant outfits. Chief Minister Omar Abdullah laid the ceremonial foundation stone of the BPO centre at Rangreth Industrial Area complex on the outskirts of Srinagar city.

December 27th, 2008 NEW DELHI - Financial services, information technology, consumer goods, retail and real estate sectors have witnessed the maximum decline in the creation of new jobs because of the economic slowdown, a leading business chamber has said. The Assocham Research Bureau, which tracked job vacancy data in 30 sectors to analyse the creation of new jobs in the economy, found that the 'employment outlook of India has come under severe strain'.

June 26th, 2009 SILICON VALLEY - Hailing the appointment of Infosys chief Nandan Nilekani as chairman of the Unique Identification Database Authority of India (UIDAI), Silicon Valley's Indian giant Kanwal Rekhi said Prime Minister Manmohan Singh should induct more professionals in his government. "This is a very good move.

April 18th, 2009 Though the financial sector has started showing some signs of recovery from the global meltdown, the IT industry in the country will take some more time to regain the growth momentum, a top industry official said here saturday. 'The crisis started in the financial sector and recovery also seems to be happening first in that sector,' S.

August 12th, 2009 Some pockets of hiring exist amid slowdownWASHINGTON — Even with most U.S. businesses still reluctant to add new employees, some pockets of hiring are emerging in industries such as accounting, information technology and restaurants, government data show.

February 21st, 2009 DURGAPUR - Coming down heavily on India's ruling United Progressive Alliance for neglecting the recession-hit small scale sector, West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee Saturday said the central government seemed only concerned with big companies like Satyam. 'The small scale sector is very badly hit.

January 14th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The government Thursday named three more directors to the Satyam Computer Services board, including Tarun Das, chief mentor of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), even as it rejected a bailout package for the fraud-hit company. Minister for Corporate Affairs P.C.

April 13th, 2009 When Apple is considered, can Steve Jobs be far away? Well, despite having a life threatening hormone imbalance disease for which Mr. Jobs is to stay at home and not come to his office, it seems he has never lost touch.