NIIT India has been jubilating high on its achievements, recently. Founded in 1981, NIIT offers learning and knowledge solutions to 5 million students across 32 countries. On June 07, the leading global talent development corporation received the mandate for IT-enabling almost 1.9 million students of Bihar & Maharashtra.
 
As per the Rs. 71 crore contract, NIIT [...]

End poverty by 2015 was the historic promise 189 world leaders made at the United Nations Millennium Summit in 2000 when they signed onto the Millennium Declaration and agreed to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) of ending hunger, bringing gender equity, eradicating poverty, HIV and aids, reduce child mortality, reduce maternal deaths, environment sustainability and global partnership. The MDGs are an eight-point road map with measurable targets and clear deadlines for improving the lives of the world’s poorest people which can be found on http://www.endpoverty2015.org

With more and more corporates going for going for social responsibility, even the online space is yearning for more. We had earlier blogged on how Google has donated 3.5 million dollars on eradicating polio. I have seen so many individuals who have been interested in giving back to the society in some way or the other. Have [...]

A Few Days Back I Wrote a ‘Brief Introduction to Blogging’. This is in Beta Stage and is supposed to go out to a couple of Media Students (freshers). I’ve tried not to make it too ‘technical’. Need to send this out soon so your additions would be invaluable.
 
If you’re one of those 35 [...]

A few months back I wrote a post on how my friend uses Orkut to get in touch with women. That post was supposed to be taken in a lighter vein. Same concept applies.
 
So it turns out that the same friend of mine is now looking for someone for his sister – a prospective groom. Like [...]

We briefly wrote about the Bharti – MTN Deal and were off the opinion that it would not go through primarily because Bharti would be Marrying Up. MTN has higher revenues, a wider reach, it too, is in markets that are likely to grow (admittedly not as fast as the Indian Market).
 
The 2 firms had discussed merger [...]

Tyroo Media has launched a unique Premium Gaming to be a part of its inventory bouquet. So it’s basically a syndicated gaming platform that advertisers can exploit. The inventory includes big names of gaming fraternity like Miniclip.com, UltimateArcade.com, Cheatcodes.com etc, and targets an age-group of 13-25 years having high speed broadband connections and good spending [...]

RK Swamy BBDO is Looking for: 
Web Designer (3-4)
Experience 1-2 years
For More on This Job Click HERE
 
First Internet Systems is Looking for:
Position : Webdesigner (3) for an MNC Client
Location : Chennai
Skills : Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Flash, CSS, Javascript
For More on this Job Click HERE
 
Mauj.com is Looking for:
Compositors and 3D Animators with atleast 2 Years of Experience
For More on this [...]

Doom is probably one of those games you played as a kid. It may probably also be one of the first game you played. If you’re a fan of the game and probably want to revisit your early gaming days, then buckle up - Doom 4 has been announced by id.  
 
Incidentally they announced the game, not [...]

RockStar Games’ GTA IV released recently (April 29) and has already been getting a lot of raves from game critics and audiences alike. The game has received an average review of about 99 0n Metacritic.com, this is no joke, it is by far the best reviewed game in a long long time.
 
GTA IV has created a new record by selling [...]

The Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) has named Ajit Balakrishnan chairman emeritus and Sanjeev Bikhchandani the new chairman for 2008-09. Balakrishnan, who is the chairman and managing director of Rediff.com, will serve a lifetime role at the IAMAI and head the council of past chairpersons at the association.
Bikhchandani, the founder and chief executive officer of Info [...]

1)    Online Marketing & Business Development Associate 

 
Company: Synage & Deskaway
Location: Colaba (Lions Gate), Mumbai

 
Synage, a mumbai-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) startup is looking for summer interns and full time professionals that want to be a part of this exploding online software industry.
 
 
To read more about the job click HERE.
 
 
PS
Deskaway was one of the Products Showcased at January’s edition of Proto.in in [...]

We normally don’t take a look at offline Viral Marketing Campaigns on WATBlog but this one seemed too good to resist.
 
 
I was in Andheri (Mumbai) the other day on my way to the SMEI Summit. I was waiting at a signal (Mumbai Traffic – ugh) and to my surprise a young boy, about 17 years of age [...]

No this isn’t an April Fool’s joke. And the CFO i am referring to is not the Chief Financial Officer - he is the Chief Food Officer. Josef Desimone, Google’s chef who is admired chiefly for the kombucha tea that he ferments from scratch (and which is rumoured to get the creative juices of employees [...]

Venture Hacks, a blog on entrepreneurship has launched what it calls the Recommended feature. Well as the name goes, the service helps the new entrepreneurs seek recommendations from people that ether know them or have used their service. Founded by Naval Ravikant and Babak Nivi, Venture Hacks plans to make the process of reference checking smoother by presenting a Twitter-like system where you can make a profile and others can follow you. There can be recommendations from people who know you.