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Satyam - Do you believe in Karma?

Ramalinga Raju taken ill from a heart attack Global Services reports that former Satyam CEO, Ramalinga Raju, suffered a heart attack while awaiting trial in jail. Another source, The Times of India, goes into more detail, especially concerning his hepatitis illness...

Tags: Hepatitis, Satyam, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-09-09

News to know: StumbleUpon; Facebook Apps; Satyam; Steve Jobs

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Tags: Corporate communications, M2TS, StumbleUpon, Satyam, Facebook, Steve Jobs

Discussion threads 2009-08-17

Satyam: PWC's version of the 'Who's On First?' comedy routine

Satyam: PWC's version of the 'Who's On First?' comedy routineJust like those "technical" articles......coming out on Indian web sites that have copied Microsoft or others articles verbatim except the author is the Indian web site owner. Lots of credibility there....RE: Satyam: PWC's version of the 'Who's On First?'...

Tags: Indian Web site, Satyam, PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting

Discussion threads 2009-07-02

Satyam: PWC's version of the 'Who's On First?' comedy routine

Who's on 1st? Thank you, thank you, thank you to the folks at TechMarketView for finding the most inane testimony yet in the still amusing Satyam fraud saga. The story, and you’ve got to read the source document in The Times of India, is...

Tags: Audit, PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, Satyam, Indian, Financial Accounting, Financial Statements, Outsourcing, Finance, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-07-02

PwC: rotten to the core or just plain stupid?

I hope that my good friend Vinnie Mirchandani doesn't take offense to the title of this post. PwC is his alma mater in a past life. However, events at Satyam in India, which have not received the attention they deserve in the US, have taken a decidedly weird or comic...

Tags: PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, Satyam, Francine McKenna, Financial Accounting, Outsourcing, Finance, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-06-30

Report: Fraud and deception at Satyam was deep

Report: Fraud and deception at Satyam was deepRE; Fraud at SatyamThe depth of this coverup/conspirecy is staggering. It may have gone all the way to the janitorial service. I would be reluctant to invest in this atmosphere.

Tags: Satyam

Discussion threads 2009-04-22

Report: Fraud and deception at Satyam was deep

The fraud and deception at Satyam Computer Services in India was so in-depth that it included dual accounting books, thousands of forged invoices, thousands of unnecessary employees and dozens of fake bank statements, according to court records analyzed by the New York Times. ...

Tags: Satyam, Deception, Fraud, Outsourcing, Financial Services, Litigation, Balance Sheets, Financial Accounting, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Financial Statements, Finance, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-04-22

De-Briefing the Satyam Sale

What should Tech Mahindra do next? Tech Mahindra TM paid around $351 million for a 30% stake in Satyam yesterday and has proposed buying an additional 20%. With the latter purchase, Tech Mahindra would control the outsourcer. While this certainly puts another bookmark in the history of...

Tags: Satyam, Branding, Public Relations, Financial Statements, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Financial Accounting, Finance, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-04-14

News to know: StumbleUpon; Facebook Apps; Satyam; Steve Jobs

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: eBay starts undoing bad acquisitions: Sets StumbleUpon free Andrew Nusca: Top Facebook applications see 25% drop in...

Tags: Steve Jobs, Facebook, Larry Dignan, Satyam, Apple Inc., StumbleUpon, Netbook, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, 3G, Hardware, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-04-14

Satyam sold: Tech Mahindra highest bidder

Satyam Computer Services, which had been rattled by accounting fraud, has been sold to a unit controlled by Tech Mahindra, an Indian outsourcing firm.  Satyam had put itself up for auction a few weeks ago. The company installed new management following at $1 billion accounting fraud. Venturebay...

Tags: Satyam, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-04-13

News to know: Windows 7; Twitter; Satyam; Apple

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Ed Bott: How hard will it be to move to the Windows 7 Release Candidate? ...

Tags: Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows 7, Dana Blankenhorn, Satyam, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Twitter, Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows, Web Browsers, Open Source, Operating Systems, Strategy, Software, Internet, Management

Blog posts 2009-04-13

Any friends OK for open source?

Any friends OK for open source?Bye Bye PentahoI have been moving our data integration from Pentaho to Talend the department may look at Jaspersoft for BI. The folk over at Pentaho seem to be in another world or something. I'm not going to say I got deep into their community...

Tags: Managed hosting, Satyam, Pentaho, open source

Discussion threads 2009-04-08

Any friends OK for open source?

Pentaho has been accused of nothing, that I am making no accusations against them. I'm just asking whether there is such a thing as appearances. This Satyam scandal has been brewing for months, and Pentaho signs on the line which is dotted just as it explodes? by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Satyam, Pentaho, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2009-04-08

Confusion and controversy continue at Satyam

Satyam, the Indian outsourcing company at the center of a massive fraud investigation continues to be mired in confusion and controversy. Earlier in the week, the company's former CFO appeared to give two PricewaterhouseCoopers audit partners a pass, saying: ...that auditors S Gopalakrishnan and Talluri Srinivas...

Tags: PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, Satyam, Litigation, Financial Accounting, Outsourcing, Business Operations, Finance, It Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-04-08

Any bidders for Satyam?

Any bidders for Satyam?Grow Up Old Man..!!!I think you are an mischievous squid..needs a tight censorship! You guys are so called pandit's as if you know everything...in reality you are biggest losers!I will vote you as World's biggest looser for posting nonsense just to create sensation.We call your kind of...

Tags: Asset management, Investment, Satyam

Discussion threads 2009-03-31

Any bidders for Satyam?

The London Financial Times is reporting that the government of India has put 51% of the shares in Satyam up for sale but there's a catch: Bidders for India's fourth- largest computer group are being warned that there are no reliable financial accounts available for the company and that...

Tags: Satyam, Government, Managed Hosting, Outsourcing, Financial Accounting, Vertical Industries, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-03-31

Satyam, IBM - Layoffs, Acquisitions, Rumors

Moving deck chairs around the globe According to today's Wall Street Journal, IBM is going to do some blood-letting. About 5,000 U.S. employees may get the axe. The company has approximately 400,000 employees globally but, more importantly, the firm continues to expand its ranks in non-U.S. markets....

Tags: Acquisition, Layoff, Satyam, IBM Corp., Workforce Management, Corporate Governance, Human Resources, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-03-26

India paper: Satyam has lost 46 customers

Satyam has reportedly lost about 46 customers out of 600 since its massive financial fraud surfaced.  India's Economic Times reports that these Satyam customers have moved to rival outfits. The news isn't unexpected as a few CIOs had mentioned their intentions to ZDNet off record.  ...

Tags: Satyam, Financial Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-03-17

A U.S. Version of the Satyam Scandal? Washington D.C. IT Fraud?

A U.S. Version of the Satyam Scandal? Washington D.C. IT Fraud?arkitecherdesignWelcome to GreatBuildings, the world of architecture online at the leading architecture reference site on the web. This gateway to architecture around the world and across history documents a thousand buildings and hundreds of leading architects with photographic images and...

Tags: Channel management, Washington D.C. IT Fraud, Satyam Scandal, U.S. Version, Satyam, Web

Discussion threads 2009-03-12

A U.S. Version of the Satyam Scandal? Washington D.C. IT Fraud?

Early into 2009 and we already have a winner! I just saw this on the news this evening. Apparently, a couple of Washington D.C. technology types are being investigated and/or arrested by the FBI for perpetrating an IT and financial fraud on the local District of Columbia...

Tags: Satyam, Fraud, Government, Vertical Industries, Litigation, Enterprise Software, Software, Business Operations, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-03-12