Mithril Capital Management Launches Growth-Stage Technology Investment Firm

SAN FRANCISCO, Jun 20, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Peter Thiel today announced that Mithril Capital Management (Mithril), a new global tech venture firm based in San Francisco, will begin seeking bold technology entrepreneurs and sponsor the growth of their businesses.

Mithril focuses primarily on growth equity opportunities across the global technology sector, investing in companies that have moved beyond the traditional venture-backed stage and prefer to remain private as

No management rejig on cards, says HCL Tech

HCL Tech BSE | NSE 20/06/12

HCL Technologies on Tuesday denied reports that there was any management rejig on the cards and said Vineet Nayar would remain the vice chairman and chief executive of the company.

A report in Times of India newspaper had claimed on Monday that the Shiv Nadar promoted software services provider was heading for a management reshuffle. Nayar is on his way out and Anant Gupta, currently president of infrastructure services will replace, the report had said citing an unnamed company official. Apart from Nayar the report had also claimed that several other senior officials close to Nayar were also quitting.

However, HCL Tech says

Rupee up 11 paise at 55.69 against dollar

MUMBAI, JUNE 15: 

The rupee opened higher at 55.68 against the American currency on the back of positive Asian markets and global cues.

At 10.00 am, the Indian unit stayed range-bound and was trading at 55.69 to the US dollar.

“The rupee is likely to surge at 55.30 levels on positive global sentiments,” said Mr N.S. Venkatesh, Head of Treasury, IDBI Bank.

The rupee had closed lower at 55.80 on Thursday.

Aggressive Quantitative 3 (Q3) easing and

Bond yeilds, swaps rise; Duvvuri Subbarao adds to caution

MUMBAI: The bond yields and swap rates rose on Friday after the central bank governor said inflation cannot be controlled without sacrificing growth in the near-term, raising some caution ahead of the RBIpolicy decision next week.

Still, the comments were not enough to derail expectations the Reserve Bank of India would deliver a 25 basis points cut in the repo rate after economic growth in the January-March quarter fell to a near nine-year low.

However, the

Full Time MBA in Technology Management (Admission open for July 2012 Batch)

Selection to MBA in Technology Management 2012-13 to be based on CAT/CnMAT/CEPT entrance exam Faculty of Technology Management(FTM) was instituted in April 2008 to offer interdisciplinary programmes in emerging technological areas, such as Energy and Environment Management, Urban Management, Infrastructure Management, Real Estate Management,Telecommunications Management, Intellectual Property Management, Technology Entrepreneurship, etc, and to specialize in developing management pedagogy for these disciplines. FTM offers a two years full time program of M.B.A in Technology Management and a three Years Part time program of M.B.A. in

Faculty of Technology Management

  In today's globally competitive business world, technology is essential to run nearly every business and every facet of business. For companies to succeed in this environment, people who posses both business savvy and technology expertise are required. In emerging economies like India,  technology transfer and development have assumed a lot of significance. Influx of investment by global giants in technology development, setting up of research centers by global companies, government policies facilitating Industry-Institute technology transfers are some of the factors that have compelled Indian companies to understand and manage