Samsung to battle Intel for top slot in semiconductors

 Samsung Electronics, already a world leader in TVs and smartphones, is taking the fight to IntelCorp for the No.1 slot in semiconductors, betting on strong growth in so-called logic chips that are the brains inside today's fast-selling smart mobile devices. 


Intel dominates the market for computer processors (CPUs) - its Intel Inside sticker is on around 80 per cent of the world's PCs - but future growth is in mobile application processors. 


Demand for these is seen rising around 40 per cent annually through 2014, according to Nomura research, while growth in PC processors will be in single digits. By 2015, the global market for application processors (AP) will have jumped fourfold to $33 billion, while the CPU market will shrink by

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

Quick learn about Technology Forecasting

Technology forecasting attempts to predict the future characteristics of useful technological machines, procedures or techniques.

Important aspects

Primarily, a technological forecast deals with the characteristics of technology, such as levels of technical performance, like speed of a military aircraft, the power in watts of a particular future engine, the accuracy or precision of a measuring instrument, the number of transistors in a chip in the year 2015, etc. The forecast does not have to state how these characteristics will be achieved.

Secondly, technological forecasting usually

Managing Innovations

Innovation management is the discipline of managing processes in innovation. It can be used to develop both product and organizational innovation. Without proper processes, it is not possible for R&D to be efficient; innovation management includes a set of tools that allow managers and engineers to cooperate with a common understanding of goals and processes. The focus of innovation management is to allow the organization to respond to an external or internal opportunity, and use its creative efforts to introduce new ideas, processes or products. Importantly, innovation management is not relegated to R&D; it involves workers at every level in contributing creatively to a company's development, manufacturing, and marketing. By utilizing appropriate innovation management tools, management can trigger and deploy the creative juices of the whole work force towards the continuous development of a company. The process can be viewed as an evolutionary integration of organization, technology and market by iterating series of activities: search, select, implement and capture.

Innovation processes can either be pushed or pulled through development. A pushed process is

Learn about Technology and Technology Management

Technology Management is set of management disciplines that allows organizations to manage their technological fundamentals to create competitive advantage. Typical concepts used in technology management are technology strategy (a logic or role of technology in organization), technology forecasting (identification of possible relevant technologies for the organization, possibly through technology scouting), technology roadmapping (mapping technologies to business and market needs), technology project portfolio ( a set of projects under development) and technology portfolio (a set of technologies in use).

The role of the technology management function in

an organization is understand the value of certain technology for the organization. Continuous development of technology is valuable as long as there is a value for the customer and therefore the technology management function in an organization should be able to argue when to invest on technology development and when to withdraw.

Technology Management can also be defined as

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

USD INR exchange rate: Major trends in past few years and where is it heading ?

The USD-INR exchange rate is an important indicator of investor sentiment and can significantly impact not only the fortunes of individual firms and sectors, but also the government. The exchange rate of the Indian rupee (or INR) is determined by market conditions. However, in order to maintain effective exchange rates, the RBI actively trades in the USD/INR currency market. The rupee currency is not pegged to any particular foreign currency at a specific exchange rate. The RBI intervenes in the currency markets to maintain low volatility in exchange rates and remove excess liquidity from the economy.

It is believed that there is significant downside risk to USD-INR exchange rate  and here are some risk factors behind this.

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