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TUNNEL OF LOVE, UKRAINE

 

ZHANGYE DANXIA LANDFORM, CHINA

LAKE HILLIER, AUSTRALIA

Google readying WhatsApp rival, India to be test bed

      GOOGLE is planning to launch its own mobile messaging app which the search giant is likely to test in India and other emerging markets. It is in the early stages of development and is likely to be launched in 2015.   Singhal, who is a product management director for Hangouts, Photos, Google+ core & Platform, is also touring other countries in Asia Pacific to understand local ecosystems better. India is one of the fastest-growing markets for instant messaging applications. Of the 600 million WhatsApp users, 65 million are in India. Similarly, Line has over 18 million registered users, Viber is targeting 30 million users by the year end and homegrown messenger Hike claims over 35 million registered users. WeChat doesn't share country-specific data but globally, it has over 438 million monthly active users. Mobile connections in India will grow to 815 million in 2014, up 8% from last year, according to Gartner which counted the growing appetite for over the top voice services (data-based) as one of the 'biggest challenges' faced by Indian mobile operators.  

COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTION

          Cognizant Technology Solution (CTS) was established in the year 1994 by Kumar Mahadeva.  He is a Srilanka based Tamil guy. CTS is an American Multinational Company which had its origin from the Dun and Bradstreet corporation which was a joint venture from Satyam computers. It is a leading provider of information technology, consulting and business process outsourcing services. 
Selected for fortune’s “most admired company list” in 2010.             
CTS joins Fortune 500 in 2011.      

Headquarters: Teaneck, New Jersey, United States 

Vision Of the Company : To lead sustainable growths with environmental friendly practices and responsible use of natural resources.

Mission : Cognizant’s single-minded mission is to dedicate our business process and technology innovation know-how, our deep industry expertise and worldwide resources to working together with clients to make their businesses stronger.

Achivements:

• Fortune named Cognizant as fastest growing IT companies for the 10th consecutive year.
• Cognizant ranks 14th on Newsweek’s 2012 list of greenest U.S. companies.

CEO : Francisco D'Souza
Chairman : John E. Kelvin 

Services Provided:

• IT infrastructure and cloud services
• Testing Solutions
• Business process services
• Analytics, Business Intelligence, CRM, Data
• Application outsourcing
• Data Warehousing, Supply Chain Management

Facebook Page : https://www.facebook.com/Cognizant

An Overview Of few Organizations

ORGANIZATION	FOUNDED	FOUNDER	HEADQUARTERS	CURRENT CEO
TCS	1968	J.R.D. Tata	Mumbai	Natarajan Chandrasekaran
INFOSYS	1981	N.R. Narayana Murthy Nandan Nilekani	Bangalore	Vishal Sikka
HCL	1976	Siva Nadar	Noida, UP	Anant Gupta
CAPGEMINI	1967	Serge Kampf	Paris, France	Paul Hermelin
COGNIZANT	1994	Kumar Mahadeva	Teaneck, NJ, USA	Francisco Dsouza
L&T	1938	Henning Holck-Larsen Soren Kristain Toubro	Mumbai	K. Venkataraman
WIPRO	1945	M.H. Hasham Premji	Bangalore	T. K. Kurien
FACEBOOK	2004	Mark Zuckerberg Eduardo Saverin	Menlo Park, CA, USA	Mark Zuckerberg
YAHOO	1995	Jerry Yang David Filo	Sunnyvale, CA, USA	Marissa Mayer
GOOGLE	1998	Sergey Brin Larry Page	USA	Larry Page
APPLE	1976	Steve Jobs Steve Wozniak Ronald Wayne	California, USA	Tim Cook

Larsen and Toubro

L&T was founded in Mumbai in 1938 by two Danish engineers, Henning Holck-Larsen and Soren Kristian Toubro. 


1944 - ECC was incorporated
1945 - the company represented British manufacturers of equipment used to manufacture products such as hydrogenated oils, biscuits, soaps and glass.
      Also L&T signed with Caterpillar Tractor Company, USA, for marketing earthmoving equipment.
On 7th Feb 1946, L&T Private Limited was born.
In December 1950, L&T became a Public Company with a paid-up capital of Rs. 2 million. The sales turnover in that year was Rs. 10.9 million.
The sixties saw a significant change at L&T and rapid growth for the company.
By 1973, it had become one of the top 25 Indian companies.
In 1976, Holck-Larsen was awarded the Magsaysay Award for International Understanding in recognition of his contribution to India's industrial development.
S.K. Toubro retired from active management in 1962.
Larsen retired as Chairman in 1978.

Today, L&T is one of the India's biggest and best known industrial organisations with a reputation for technological excellence, high quality of products and services, and strong customer orientation.

Subsidiaries: L&T Infotech, L&T Mutual Fund, L&T Infrastructure Finance Company, L&T Finance Holdings, L&T IES,  L&T MHPS

Products:                                                     

• Construction
• Heavy Equipment
• Electrical equipment
• Power
• Ship building
• Financial services
• IT services             

Headquarters : Mumbai
CEO & MD : K. Venkataraman
Executive Chairman : A.M. Naik
Employees : 84,027 in March 2014
Revenue : US$ 13.6 Billion (2013)

THE FABULOUS LIFE OF MARK ZUCKERBERG - CEO OF FACEBOOK

             Mark Zuckerberg was born on May 14, 1984, in White Plains, New York. He grew up with his three siblings in the nearby town, Dobbs Ferry. At the age of 12, Zuckerberg used Atari Basic to create a messaging programme his dad used in his dental office.
    Zuckerberg enrolled in Harvard University in 2002, where he quickly became known for his developer skills. After his sophomore year, he decided to drop out and focus on 'The Facebook', which he had been running out of his dormroom.
    By the end of 2005, Facebook had surpassed 5.5 million users and received $12.7 million from Accel Ventures.
    Zuckerberg continued to see success with Facebook and in 2010 was featured as Time magazine's person of the year. Vanity Fair also placed him at the top of its New Establishment list, and Forbes ranked him at No. 35 on its '400 list', ahead of Steve Jobs.
    He took Facebook public on May 18, 2012. The IPO raised $16 billion almost instantly, making it the biggest tech IPO in history.
   Another sign of Zuckerberg having made it is the fact he received a $1 salary in 2013. (Not including the $653,164 for "other compensation," most of which covered bills for private chartered jets.)

    Also, he was the most charitable philanthropist in 2013, having donated half a billion dollars worth of Facebook stock to the Silicon Valley Community Foundation. He has also donated a lot of money to Newark, New Jersey's public school system and his non-profit Internet.org.


Earlier this week, Facebook crushed its second quarter earnings and its stock hit an all-time high — which really just means Mark Zuckerberg is one step closer to being the richest man in the world.

Zuckerberg's current net worth is about $33.1 billion, putting him at No. 16 in Forbes's ranking of the world's billionaires. More impressively, he is one of just three people who currently have more billions under their belt than years lived.

 

SMART WATCHES TO RULE OUR WRIST!!

LG G watch (left) and Samsung gear live (right)

The long awaited smart watches has been released this week. The two watches built on Android wear platform. One is from LG, the G watch, and the other is from its arch Korean peninsular rival, Samsung, the Gear live.
 Android wear does two things, it moves app notifications to the watch’s face, and it puts Google Now’s voice-powered search capabilities on your wrist.

Both runs on the same platform and more or less same software. Using these watches one can check calendar, set remainders, set timers, send emails, Google search and even get map directions. Also can dictate a note and that will show up in Google Keep. Both watches need to charge every day, just like phone. And that means cradling it, neither watch can power up directly from a USB cable.

The Samsung Gear Live costs $200, got a better-looking body, it’s more comfortable, and has a better display to boot. It can detect your heart rate on command, the LG cannot. The Samsung watch is the clear winner on overall build quality. It has a slightly curved backside, and the band connection is angled, both of which means that it rests more comfortably on your wrists than the LG. Its screen is brighter than LG. 

The LG G Watch costs $230, let us upgrade relatively quickly, replacing this watch in a year. It has a nice cradles and covers the complete backside of the watch and feels rather hefty and substantial. Better yet, it connects magnetically to the back of the watch to charge the wrist computer. 
 

 Besides all its pros and cons they are pretty amazing and are the first truly useful smart watches to hit the market.