Today in Tech: Wipro - Green Electronics; Cognizant - Men behind its growth & Planet of Apps
Wipro - Green Electronics
Wipro topped the ranking in Greenpeace International’s 18th version of the Guide to Greener Electronics in its maiden appearance in the list. Greenpeace ranked 16 electronics companies based on three criteria: energy and climate, greener products and sustainable operations. Higher the commitment and progress, the higher the rank. This wouldn't have come entirely as a surprise to Forbes India readers. Here's the list. Here's Wipro's scores in detail, and this is how the rankings look like
Cognizant - men behind its growth
Who is rich in the planet of apps
During the Forbes India Leadership Awards, TCS CEO N Chandrasekaran spoke about how the future will remember these years when everyone's concerned about economic turbulence. He said: What I believe is that when history judges these four years, it's not going to remember this period as the period of economic turbulence. But instead it's going to remember these four years to be a period of great digital transformation and how technologies have transformed all our lives forever.
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In the speech, he talks about the unprecedented success of Instagram and Angry Birds, and in our story we tried capturing what he is doing inside his organisation to bring it up to digital transformation. But how good has it been for app developers in general.
New York Times took a hard look at that economy, and this is what it found: Yet with the American economy yielding few good opportunities in recent years, there is debate about how real, and lasting, the rise in app employment might be. Despite the rumors of hordes of hip programmers starting million-dollar businesses from their kitchen tables, only a small minority of developers actually make a living by creating their own apps, according to surveys and experts. More here.
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