Samsung
targets the high-end to up margins and profits From
being a mass-market player - a game where it has seen tremendous
success - Samsung is now eyeing high-end segments in the various
product categories it operates in. Shipra Arora has more details
on this strategy and also analyses Samsung’s moves on this
front, keeping in mind market conditions and the competition
Samsung will face
Salary
negotiation: Change in power equation
- Not
so long ago a prospective employer promised a candidate
a 50 percent hike to lure him into his company, today
it is the take it or leave it philosophy that
dominates the negotiation scenario.
October
Issue - Case Study Special Connecting
theory to practice A collection of eight case studies that talk about
companies that re-modelled themselves into smart knowledge-driven
enterprises ...
HP’s
Indian arm crucial for its software services thrust
Hewlett-Packard
(HP), the world’s third largest IT services company, is leveraging
its Indian offshore presence in a big way. Pankaj Mishra finds
that apart from doing partial outsourcing for several global
wins, the company is also looking at the domestic market and
has won a few multi-million projects in the country
Stock
File
Selling
spree continues
The
streak of good Q2 numbers ended as HCL Tech, CMC and a few Old
Economy stocks declared disappointing numbers. The Street has
since seen a sell-off on these counters.
E
Business
Can
Avenues India trigger off an e-commerce revolution in the
country?
e-commerce
in India has continued to baffle both experts and trade analysts.
But one vendor, Avenues India has practically changed the
rules of the game and turned the market on its head with its
extremely practical and economical payment processing solution.
The result: over 500 Indian companies have signed up in a
period of only one year and over 50,000 transactions have
already been executed through this solution. Does this solution
have the potential to revolutionalise the e-commerce market
in India? Srikanth R P reports
Palm
and the Enterprise
Apart
from being a great tool for personal use, a Palm handheld computer
is of tremendous benefit to the enterprise. A large number of
firms deploy Palm handheld computers among their workforce.
Ashish Gupta discusses the possibilities of using a Palm handheld
computer within your organisation