Professor Manjul Bhargava of Princeton University has won the 2008 Frank Nelson Cole Prize in Number Theory, a top award of the American Mathematical Society. The award, given every three years,......
Technology giant Hewlett-Packard's board met last week to take a decision on a new chief executive to succeed Mark Hurd, says a media report. Attributing to people familiar with the matter, The......
As business biographies go, this one fits the bill perfectly: it is eulogistic, biased and pre-deterministic. The book not only recounts the life and career of Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard, the......
Well, here's a rockin' party: a gathering of several hundred midlevel human-resources executives in Las Vegas. (Yo, Wayne Newton! How's the 401(k)?) They are here, ensconced for two days at......
It must be a sign of the times hanging on a modest, single-storied house 12 km from Pune. "Rooms vacant," says the handwritten board pinned to the gate, "Only IT and BPO professionals need......
Politicians, bureaucrats and residents of Bangalore take pride in the fact that they live in what they call the Silicon Valley of the East. The city is considered high tech because of the number of......