KOLKATA - Information technology (IT) company Wipro has agreed to pay Rs.1.5 crore per acre for A 50-acre plot at Rajarhat at the northeastern fringes of this city and the land will be handed over to them next month, a minister said here Saturday.

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KOLKATA - City-based information technology firm Starlite Infotech Thursday inked an alliance with Spanish open-source solutions provider Openbravo for offering enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions to small and medium enterprises (SMEs).

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KOLKATA - A 38-year-old American woman, Kathleen Mary O' Brien, was found dead at her facebook friends flat in Kolkata on Sunday.

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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.

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KOLKATA - Days after West Bengal scrapped an IT township project, the National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM) Tuesday said the Left Front government needs to "re-prioritise" its policy of allocating land for industry and more importance should be given to information technology.

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KOLKATA - The West Bengal government has acquired 200 acres of contiguous land for the Rajarhat information technology (IT) hub, where software majors like Infosys and Wipro have sought space, a state minister said here Wednesday.

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KOLKATA - Outsourcing major Wipro is actively looking at overseas acquisitions, a top company official said here Wednesday.

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KOLKATA - In order to tackle cyber crime, the Kolkata police joined hands with the Public Relations Society of India, Kolkata Chapter and Calcutta Telephones and organised a workshop here to spread awareness about cyber security. Cyber crime still remains a vague phenomenon for most Internet users, as they are not aware as to what actually constitutes cyber crime and what laws are against it.

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KOLKATA - Telecom operator Sistema Shyam Teleservices is planning to outsource a portion of its Internet infrastructure to global IT behemoth IBM, and hopes to sew up the deal some time next year, people aware of the development say. Sistema Shyam, a joint venture company between Russia's Sistema and India's Shyam group, plans to outsource 'a portion' of its IT infrastructure, an industry official told IANS requesting anonymity.

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KOLKATA - An irate mob broke windows of a mini-bus and set it ablaze after the vehicle ran over a youth in a West Bengal town Monday, the police said.

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