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Health care receivables cycle management (HRCM) player Accentia Technologies, operating from the Technopark here and other centers, has recommended a final dividend of 20% for 2008-09. Company officials said the good performance in 2008-09 was achieved despite the global recession that had forced many BPO/KPO companies to take extreme measures including large-scale pink slips and cost cutting. Accentia Technologies CEO …

IT sector is likely to be the worst hit in the global economic downturn which has also stifled the expansion of the IT sector, the state government has deferred the payment of 50 percent of the current year’s rent of firms operating in Government-owned IT parks to 2010-2011. The government has issued an order regarding this on May 30 and …

The ever awaited carpooling website for Technopark – www.parkcarpool.in, was jointly launched by the Group of Technopark Companies (GTECH), a body representing the chief executives of the Technopark firms, and Palnar Transmedia, a city-based software firm. The site would encourage IT professionals to travel together and thereby save money, fuel and reduce global warming and traffic on the roads.Those who …

Satyam Computer Services, which is now controlled by Tech Mahindra, is planning to lay off 12,000 to 14,000 employees. Sources said that the new management made a formal announcement before senior management personnel on Thursday on the issue of reducing manpower by up to 14,000 people. Satyam currently has just over 40,000 employees, of which 19,000 are ‘billing employees,’ while …

The work on prestigious infosys IT campus in Kerala is in progress, up on completion it would be the most beautiful building in kerala.The cladding work is progressing fast on SDB – I of the Infosys campus even as piling nears completion on SDB – II. The first SDB is expected to soft-commissioned by next month. See some of the …

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Network Systems and Technologies Pvt Ltd (NeST), a Trivandrum Technopark-based company, is partnering with the U.S.-based EASi, a leader in vehicle-product engineering, to develop integrated solutions for the automobile industry.Under the contract, EASi and NeST will jointly offer value-added solutions in active safety, telematics, infotainment and navigation systems. EASi, an engineering partner to leading car manufacturers across the world, offers …

Technopark-Trivandrum and Infopark-Kochi have approved annual expansion plans envisaging budgets of Rs 650 crore and Rs 250 crore respectively for 2009-10. This was decided at general body meetings of the State’s two principal technology parks, the Chief Minister, Mr V. S. Achuthanandan.Briefing newspersons on the decisions taken at the meetings, he said the Technopark would immediately start construction activities that …

Technopark-based RM Education Solutions India (RM ESI), the offshore development centre of RM plc, UK has been concorded the ISO 20000-1:2005 certification. An RM ESI official said that RM ESI, had undergone an audit conducted by Intertek, an international certification organisation providing professional management systems certification services, on behalf of RvA of the Netherlands, the accreditation body RM Education Solutions …

The Group of Technopark Companies (GTech), the strategic grouping of IT companies in Technopark, has adopted a corporate policy on HIV/AIDS. GTech is the first industry organisation in Kerala to adopt a corporate policy on HIV/AIDS to help build a positive and supportive attitudes towards those infected and to promote the health and safety amongst the IT companies in the …

Toonz Animation Technopark, animation major in Technopark and South American studio Illusion Studios have inked a co-production deal for producing a 90 minute 3D animated feature film. According to a press release here today, the film ‘Gaturro’, which is based on the famous Argentine comic strip Gaturro and is created by Christian Dzwonik (Nik) Gaturoo, chronicles fun love story of …

Kerala Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan said on Wednesday that the global economic slowdown may delay the launch of the Rs.15 billion Smart City project in Kochi. The proposed project, to be jointly launched by the state government and the Dubai-based infrastructure major Smart City, is slated to come up on a 246-acre plot with 8.8 million square feet of built-up …

The first Nitrogen-Filling facility at an Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) retail outlet in Kerala is inagurated next to the mega office sites of Infosys campus

Leela Group is all set to open a Rs.100 crore state-of-the-art IT campus in the Technopark.The building is almost ready and we will open the campus very soon.

Afras Academy for Business Communication (AABC), an initiative by former UN Under-Secretary General Shashi Tharoor at Technopark, has announced a variety of new programmes in connection with its first anniversary

India’s National Association of Software Companies is struggling to convince members of Unites Professionals, the fledgling but fast-growing information technology labor union, that the IT industry is not resorting to large-scale job cuts, nor is it facing an unstable future. The labor union has claimed that software companies are adopting a number of “unfair means” to cope with the economic …

Recession should not threaten the new generation; instead, it should be taken as an opportunity to practise new principles and acquire new skills,’’ said Finance Minister Thomas Isaac. He was delivering the convocation address at the Asian School of Business (ASB) in  Technopark It is sure that prospects shrink. However, opening up of the geographical boundaries of the European markets …

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