N Chandrasekaran voted the best CEO of India by Asian Investors

N Chandrasekaran, CEO & MD, Tata Consultancy Services, has been voted as the best CEO of India, as per FinanceAsia magazine’s annual poll of investors and analysts. TCS’ CFO S Mahalingam has been voted the best CFO of India in the same poll. Hong Kong-based FinanceAsia conducts the annual poll across 300 investors and analysts to find Asia’s top companies in different categories, including...

Cement performance for March 2010

The Aditya Birla Group’s cement production for the period April-March 2010 has moved up by 15 per cent at 372.71 lakh mt as against 324.18 lakh mt during April-March 2009. Dispatches rose by 15 per cent at 372.22 lakh mt in April-March 2010 vis-a-vis 323.41 lakh mt in the corresponding period last ...

ITC’s Bhadrachalam Facility gets coveted Forest Stewardship Council Certification

ITC has achieved yet another milestone in its environmental journey. India’s largest integrated pulp and paper and paperboard manufacturing facility of ITC at Bhadrachalam has been awarded the FSC Chain of Custody certificate. It is the most widely respected certification for responsible fibre sourcing around the world. This certification provides a unique competitive edge to ...

LG BECOMES FIRST ASIAN COMPANY TO RECEIVE ISM R. GENE RICHTER AWARD

LG Electronics (LG) made history by becoming the first Asian company to be honored with the ISM R. Gene Richter Award for Leadership and Innovation in Supply Management. This is also the first time the award has gone to only one winner since the award was first established in 2006. The Institute for Supply Management™ (ISM), the largest supply management institute in the world, has been honoring excellence in...

Tata Steel Conferred Fortune’s ‘Most Admired Company’

Tata Steel Ltd this year has been ranked among the world’s top ten of the “Most Admired Company” rated by FORTUNE Magazine and the Hay Group. The award has been bestowed to the Company in Industry-Metal category. It puts Tata Steel in the same company as Apple, GE, Singapore Airlines, Alcoa, Thyssen Krupp etc. What makes this award unique that it is based on peer ranking based on inputs from the industry...

Infosys BPO awarded 5-Star Rating by Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE)

Infosys BPO, the business process outsourcing subsidiary of Infosys Technologies, announced that it has been awarded the 5-star rating for energy efficiency by Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) for its building located in its Phase 2 campus in Hinjewadi, Pune, India. The rating is under the “Star rating for BPO buildings” scheme of BEE that rates office buildings in India from which BPO services are...

HCL Technologies Named to the 2010 WorldBlu List of Most Democratic Workplaces

HCL Technologies Ltd., a leading global IT services company,  announced that it has been named to the WorldBlu List of Democratic Workplaces, sponsored by WorldBlu, a non-profit company specializing in organizational democracy. The WorldBlu list of Most Democratic Workplaces annually recognizes organizations that demonstrate exemplary democratic practices that contribute to high performance, engagement,...

Best-selling Author on Servlets and JSP, Marty Hall, to Keynote at GIDS 2010

Marty Hall is an expert on JSP, servlets, Jakarta Struts, JSF, Ajax, GWT and Java programming. He is the author of six popular books on Java and Web technology that have been worldwide bestsellers, been translated into 15 languages, as well as being reprinted in English in India. Marty is coming this summer to India’s biggest summit for the software developer ecosystem — Great Indian Developer Summit...

Kindle for BlackBerry Now Available for Free Directly from Amazon

Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today introduced “Kindle for BlackBerry,” a new application available as a free download from Amazon.com that lets customers enjoy over 420,000 books, including 102 of 112 New York Times Bestsellers, on a range of BlackBerry devices. Amazon’s Whispersync technology saves and synchronizes a customer’s bookmarks across their Kindle, Kindle DX, iPhone, iPod touch,...

Bestselling Author Gavin de Becker Makes Electronic Editions of His Books Available Exclusively in Kindle Store

Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced that Gavin de Becker, bestselling author and nationally recognized expert on the prediction and management of violence, has decided to make expanded and updated editions of two of his books, “The Gift of Fear” and “Just 2 Seconds,” available in Amazon’s Kindle Store (www.amazon.com/kindlestore). This is the first time “The Gift of...