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Thiruvonam coincides with US Labor day: Techies in festive spirit

TechnoparkToday.com>>  Techies working in IT companies here in Technopark and on-site have a tension-free onam this year.  This time, the US Labor Day and Thiruvonam are on same date.  This brings an off day for techies who are working for US clients.  Normally, thiruvonam is a working day for them. It is a double bonanza as the holiday follows the …

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Vijay Kumar rejoins as CEO of InApp

TechnoparkToday.com>> The Board of Directors of InApp announced the return of Vijay Kumar as the new Chief Executing Officer (CEO) effective September 1, 2017.   Amarnath Raja, InApp co-founder, and current CEO, will take on the position of Executive Chairman and continue to serve as the member of the Board of Directors. Vijay Kumar is one of the co-founders of InApp along …

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Malayali Manka & Kerala Sreeman 2017: Onam Photo Contest for Techies !

TechnoparkToday.com >> To celebrate the spirit and the joy of this Onam, TechnoparkToday.com in association with OVM India (Film casting and promotion services) is organising a photo contest for techies – The Malayali Manka & Kerala Sreeman 2017!!! Send us your photo in Kerala traditional attire. We will be publishing the photos in our official facebook page(https://www.facebook.com/technoparktoday), and the winners …

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Labour commission to conduct regular sittings in Technopark

TechnoparkToday.com>> In light of growing cases of layoffs in IT companies, the labour department has decided to conduct monthly sittings in Technopark.  The sitting is to address labour issues in the IT park. A committee has been formed for this with additional labour commissioner, A Alexander as chairman and Technopark CEO, Hrishikesh Nair, and a GTech representative as members. Employees …

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QBurstian Bags Amazon Alexa Skills Contest Prize

TechnoparkToday.com(Aug, 2017): Mohamed Nisar from QBurst  has won the Amazon Alexa Skills Contest. His entry bagged the third place in the contest that had participants from all over the world. The contestants had to design, develop, and submit a new skill for Alexa, the cloud-based Amazonservice that powers voice-based interactions with devices. Fitness Logger, Nisar’s prize-winning submission, is an Alexa …

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UST Global Honored with ‘Pro Patria’ Award

TechnoparkToday.com(Aug, 2017): California State’s Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve (ESGR) committee has honored UST Global with ‘Pro Patria’ award for its ‘Step IT Up America Veterans’ initiative. ‘Pro Patria’ is the highest honor given to employers for support of National Guard and Reserve employees in California. UST Global was selected for the ‘Pro Patria’ award from more than …

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Maker Village incubated firm invited to US Department of State’s ‘TechCamp’ for South Asian startups

Technoparktoday.com(July, 2017): Technorip Innovations, a hardware startup incubated at Maker Village, has had a rare chance to interact with technology experts from around the world after being selected for a prestigious programme organised by the US Department of State for emerging entrepreneurs in South Asia. Technorip, which specializes in embedded and hardware systems, web/ mobile development, cloud intelligence and Internet …

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Kerala to house country’s first SingularityU chapter

World-renowned innovation platform takes root in state’s IT hub, Technopark TechnoparkToday.com(July, 2017): In a game-changing development for India’s IT sector and startup ecosystem, Kerala will host the subcontinent’s first chapter of Singularity University, a world-renowned community learning and innovation platform that explores and enables the leveraging of exponential technologies to tackle contemporary challenges. The national chapter of the Silicon Valley-based …

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UST Global partners with Jidoka to offer Robotic Process Automation

Technoparktoday.com(July, 2017): UST Global, a US-based leading digital technology services company,has announced that it has signed a strategic alliance with Jidoka, a leading RPA technology solution provider, to expand its RPA (Robotic Process Automation) solutions portfolio in Spain and South America. With more than 17,000 employees, UST Global is accelerating the transformation of organisations worldwide towards the Digital Economy. Thanks …

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Layoff in IT – Compensate Before Retrenching!!

Technoparktoday.com(July, 2017): In the last couple of months,there has been a situation of crisis in the IT services Industry. At least, it has been made to manifest so. The news of people getting sacked after their years of employment with certain organizations are trickling down and it has created some kind of fear psychosis among Software engineers,who are evicted. All …

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Zara Sheikha – The first transgender to get a job in Technopark!

Technoparktoday.com(Mar, 2017): Zara became the first transgender person in Kerala to get a job with a multi national company as she placed in the  Human Resources department of UST Global, Technopark, Trivandrum. Kerala is becoming one of the safest places for people belonging to the transgender community with them getting many privileges in the society. After the news on Kochi Metro Rail …

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Mass Layoffs in Indian IT companies?

Technoparktoday.com(May, 2017): Many large Indian IT companies are in the process of laying off employees on a scale. Those taking the hit first are mid-and senior-level professionals, however, many lower-level employees too are likely to face the axe in the coming months.Here are 6 IT and telecom companies that have announced job cuts (or are likely to) this year. Cognizant  Cognizant appears set to …

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IIITM-K develops soil management app for coffee growers

TechnoparkToday.com(April, 2017) : Autonomous state government institute, the Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management-Kerala (IIITM-K), has launched a web application that provides soil nutrient information and fertilizer recommendation for coffee plantation owners. Using this application, coffee growers can identify optimum levels of fertilizer use. Developed by the IIITM-K’s Computational and Data Analytics, Geo-Infomatics and Agri-Informatics teams, the Kaapi Soil Health …

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UST Global Expands its Workforce in Bangalore to over 3,000

TechnoparkToday.com(April, 2017) : UST Global, a US-based leading digital technology services company, announced that it has expanded workforce in Bangalore to over 3,000. The Bangalore facility continues to be the company’s second biggest delivery center globally. The company has more than 10,000 employees in India out of 17,000-plus globally. Manu Gopinath, Chief People Officer, UST Global, said, “We are in …

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QuEST Global to hold 7th edition of National-Level Engineering Contest – Ingenium

Technoparktoday.com(Mar,2017): QuEST Global, a leading global engineering solutions provider, today, announced that the 7th edition of Ingenium, an India-wide engineering talent search competition, will be held in Trivandrum in September this year. Striving towards building engineering passion amongst the student community of India, this contest brings together the brightest engineering minds to compete with one another and win exciting prizes. …

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Maker Village hosts Hardware Startup Contest

TechnoparkTodaycom(Mar,2017):Promising early-stage hardware startups stand to win exciting prizes, a chance to get an acceleration program in the US as well as compete for a $50,000 grand prize, at the AlphaLabGear National Hardware Cup, a prestigious competition that is being conducted in India for the first time this month. Electronics incubator Maker Village in Kochi, Kerala, will host the India …

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UST Global Partners with Microsoft for Dev Confluence 2017

TechnoparkToday.com(Mar, 20`7) : UST Global, a leading digital technology services company, partnered with Microsoft and Kerala Microsoft Users Group (K-MUG) to organise Dev Confluence 2017 at UST Global’s Technopark campus in the city on Saturday, 25 February 2017. The event was inaugurated by Alexander Varghese, Chief Administrative Officer and Country Head, UST Global. The keynote address was delivered by Annie …

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IT in trouble as America suspends processing of H1-B visas

TechnoparkToday.com(Mar, 2017): Not a good news for Indian IT industry, since the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services announced a temporary suspension of its premium processing for all H1-B visas starting April 3rd 2017. While the process is suspended, petitioners will not be able to file Form I-907 to request for Premium Processing Service and for Form I-129 which files …

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