Women paid 33% less than male counterparts in IT industry

CHENNAI: The Indian information technology industry is widely regarded to be among the most undiscriminating when it comes to gender. But even then, salary differences between men and women is almost a third. Industry body Nasscom said this is mainly because fewer women are getting promoted to supervisory roles. Typically, a male employee earns a gross salary of Rs 359.25 an hour while a female worker gets only Rs 254.04. With more number of career breaks in their job history, the negotiating capacity of women in the labour...

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Wipro's gives 16% salary raise to its employees

BANGALORE: Wipro has rewarded nearly one in five employees with a 16% salary increase, a move India's third-largest software company believes will help it retain its best-performing employees as overall attrition rates increased during the first quarter of the year. Starting June 1, the average pay-raise for those working at client locations onsite was 2% while it was an average 8% for the rest. But the top 20% among its 1,47,500 employees were rewarded with twice the average increase."One...

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Terrifying Android Vulnerability That Could Let Hackers Completely Take Over Your Phone

Researchers from Bluebox Labs have discovered a terrifying Android vulnerability that lets malware take over your apps, steal their data, and essentially take full control of your phone, including the financial information you've saved in your Google Wallet. Here's the basic idea: Every Android app has its own unique identity, and this particular vulnerability allows malware to copy that identity, so that it can impersonate your applications without you knowing. Bluebox researchers...

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Modi's budget recognises software product startups as a growth engine

Budget 2014 holds the promise of transforming India from just an IT/ITeS outsourcing hub, popular for providing cheap tech labor, to a turf boasting of indigenous software product giants. This calls for hiring versatile techies with an entrepreneurial streak within emerging software tech start-ups According to NASSCOM there are about 15,000 technology start-ups and SMEs operating in India. Among the large number of SMEs mushrooming in various industry verticals in India, you might ask why this...

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Andhra Pradesh government targets Rs 12,000 cr investment in IT sector by 2020

HYDERABAD: Andhra Pradesh government aims to attract investment of Rs 12,000 crore in the Information Technology sector and that of Rs 30,000 crore in the electronics sector by 2020, which is expected to generate five lakh jobs. The government also aims to create "at least one IT literate per family" besides an IT entrepreneur, according to the IT and Communications Minister Palle Raghunatha Reddy. Chief Minister N Chandrababu...

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Citigroup to hire 100 bankers, eyes more business from smaller clients

 HONG KONG: Citigroup plans to hire as many as 100 bankers in a renewed push into Asia-Pacific commercial banking, following in rival HSBC's footsteps with a strategy that focuses on selling smaller corporate clients a wider range of products.  Global banks like Citi and HSBC are now concentrating on small to medium-sized clients due to a dwindling number of $10 billion-plus IPOs from Chinese state-owned companies - deals which had sustained investment banks in the region over the last decade. The...

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John Kerry praises Tata for creating jobs in US

WASHINGTON: US Secretary of State John Kerry has praised Indian automobile giant Tata for creating thousands of jobs in the United States.  "Take a look at the jobs that Tata is creating for Americans by expanding auto design and sales in the United States, adding to its 24,000 employees already in this country," Kerry said yesterday in a major foreign policy speech on India at the Center for American Progress, a US think-tank."Already, Indian investment creates close to 100,000 jobs right...

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How Amazon India Is Changing The E-tailing Game

The global e-commerce giant Amazon entered the Indian terrain about a year ago in June 2013. Since then, a lot has changed in the e-tailing space of the country. Being an experienced player across many countries in the online space, Amazon has brought lot of expertise to the Indian online marketplace, pushing the native players to evolve and change swifter. Within a couple of years, Amazon has launched a mobile retailing app and now covers 20,000 Pin codes, which is more than any other online...

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World‘s 10 most internet addicted countries

In this modern world Internet is the basic means for communication, trading, entertainment, knowledge, social engagement. With every passing day the utility of Internet is increasing worldwide with rise in flow of information. Here is a list of 10 most internet addicted countries in 2014:1. Iceland. Iceland doesn't have the fastest internet service in the world, but 96.2% of population is connected. The denizens use renewable energy to access the web. They have been the core of international...

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Tips and Tricks for the Skype Job Interview

Business school career centers have long prepared students for job interviews, but now they have a new platform to contend with. Enough companies now interview for jobs and internships over Skype that career offices have started to train business students in the art of conversing on video chat. You'd think that digital natives could pull it off easily, but more can go wrong than you think, says Stacey Rudnick, director of MBA career services at University of Texas' McCombs School of Business....

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Apple will set the world on fire with iPhone 6

Analysts anticipate an 'unbelievably massive' second half of '14 for a new, larger-screen iPhone, in part because Apple's committed a near-record $21B for components, tooling and manufacturing Apple will "set the world on fire" with "unbelievably massive" sales of the next iPhone, analysts said this week. "As well as they did with the iPhone this quarter, with all the rumors of a new iPhone [this fall], I was impressed with the results," Van Baker of Gartner said about Apple's second-quarter...

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The Weird Thing About The Facebook Page For Apple's iPhone

There is a Facebook page for iPhone, and it has nearly 3.5 million fans. But it's not run by Apple. It's a fan page. Apple doesn't actually have a Facebook page for iPhone. In fact, Apple's presence on Facebook is inconsistent. There is a page for the App Store. And a (barely updated) page for Apple Inc. There is also a page for iTunes. The iTunes page has 32 million likes. But iPhone, the biggest consumer electronics brand in the world, has no official presence in...

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8 tips to save eyes from computer vision syndrome

Working on computers is essential in several professions, while a sizeable number do so for leisure or communication needs. But very few are aware of the flip side of working on computers. Computer screens emit a harmful blue light that is dangerous to human eyes and prolonged usage can lead to what has come to be known as digital eye strain in medical lexicon.However, just taking a few simple steps can keep your eyes from getting strained, irritated and dry despite using your computer all day...

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