FINANCIAL my 010 HYDERABAD, THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 2010 KNOWLEDGE, CAREERS, ENTREPRENEURSHIP, OPPORTUNITIES Page anchored by Amrita Das SPACE SMARTMOVES Disney ties up talents to go Indian WHATSINIT To roll out six to eight films each year; focuses on Hindi, Tamil, Telugu cinema D GOVARDAN year from India,” he added. 4me Chennai Apart from films, which includes releasing Disney’s THE Walt Disney Company Hollywood productions in (India) may well have just the Indian market, the GIS necessity coined a new phrase for it- company will focus on tele- ■ A GEOGRAPHIC in- self in India, in its attempt vision, publishing comic formation system cap- to have a larger presence in books as well as its tradi- tures and stores data this fast emerging market. tional grip over franchises that are linked to loca- Rather than Walt Disney and licences based on some tion. With its usage in India, it should be Indian of the best known Disney tracking, land survey- Walt Disney. That’s how few years characters. ing, geography, urban simply and bluntly Mahesh “A “We have tied up with planning, emergency Samat, managing director, from now, if a large retailers like Land- management, naviga- AFP The Walt Disney Company mark and others. We had tion, and localised (India) put it across to the kid thinks undertaken an assessment search engines, the GIS media over an interaction study to see the possibility has become an impor- Visa to buy CyberSource here on Wednesday. about Disney, of setting up exclusive Dis- tant necessity in mod- “A few years from now, if ney stores. But, nothing in ern world. With its abil- Visa has agreed to buy CyberSource, a a kid thinks about Disney, he should think the radar in the immediate ity to allow users to edit technology company that processes on- he should think of an Indi- of an Indian future,” he said, while has- data, maps, GIS is a an brand and not just the tening to add that “theme useful tool especially in line payments, for about $2 billion. relevant global past,” Samat brand.” parks” are quite a distance today’s globalised said. To make this happen away from India as per its world. The developed in India, Disney is looking current business plans in world has been using at attracting the entire fam- FIRST VENTURE: Disney’s first ever Bollywood movie named Mahesh Samat the country. the technology in vari- ily and not just the kids Zokkomon, with Darsheel Safary as lead, will hit theatres in May MD, The Walt Disney Company The company that en- ous departments and alone in the family. “We tered India over five years sectors for quite some want to be known as a fam- nounced its first co-produc- that “it will be a fantasy, ac- Tamil films as the company ago, has so far invested close time now but it is still ily entertainment brand in tion of a Telugu film, which tion adventure film”. moves forward. “These to $0.5 billion in the country. in nascent stage in India and will focus more is still untitled. Besides hav- While evading questions films will be globally ex- This includes its invest- many developing coun- on creating Indian and lo- ing announced the tie-up on budget, with a simple ploited as is the nature of ments in UTV as well as in tries. So the potential cal content to make that with veteran Telugu film “funds are no constraint”, Disney and the focus is to Disney India’s operations. for its application and happen,” he said. maker, K Raghavendra Rao, he said that the focus will attain a level where we can implementation in a Disney recently an- all that Samat revealed was be on Hindi, Telugu and roll out six to eight films per [email protected] fast progressing country like India is quite good. With so many develop- ments taking place in key sectors like tele- com, information tech- AFP LPOs to need 12,800 mjunction unveils nology, infrastructure, aviation and defense— Sofia to scan the sky India possesses a huge professionals in 5 yrs solution to help scope for the system’s Nasa Boeing 747 carrying a German in- application. Moreover frared telescope Sofia will scan celestial KUMAR SHANKAR ROY services firm. sion, there will be pressure with agriculture being one of the major con- Kolkata The previous two years on law firms to reduce their carbon mapping targets that emit infrared radiations. were among the worst for overheads related to market- tributors to the coun- THE Legal Process Offshore the legal market in the Unit- ing and sales, general ad- KUMAR SHANKAR ROY try’s GDP and the gov- ernment initiating Outsourcing (LPO) industry ed States with billable rates ministration, information Kolkata Eco-nomic help Bhagat is new Barclays India head is poised for significant and realised rates dropping technology, accounting, measures to boost agri- growth in the next five years by almost 10 per cent. clerical, paralegal and MJUNCTION services, an ■ Green Sourcing is an cultural infrastructure Karan Bhagat has been appointed as MD and with revenue growth be- However, the LPO in- knowledge management,” eCommerce company, on online ‘environmentally for better production, it country head for Barclays Corporate in India. tween 2010 and 2015 ex- dustry is already the Aggarwal said. Wednesday announced a conscious’ purchase is one of the potential pected to be approximately fastest growing sub-sector He added that these ex- innovative eProcurement solution, the firm said sectors where GIS serv- 26 per cent annually. in the KPO domain with a penses account for about 17 solution ‘Green Sourcing’ at ice is much required. Fiat board names Elkann for top job ■ To meet emission At present, there are over growth of 40 per cent in per cent of the total over- www.greensourcing.in. ESRI is therefore, mov- Fiat named John Elkann, grandson of historic boss targets, many firms have 5,200 professionals in the 2008 and 2009. The gen- head expenses that a typical Green Sourcing is an online ing in the right direc- already mapped their Gianni Agnelli, to the chairmanship of the firm. LPO industry in India and eral KPO industry grew by law firm with 20 or more ‘environmentally conscious’ tion with its investment carbon footprint the Philippines, con - only 5 per cent each year lawyers incurs in the US. purchase solution targeted plans in India. Six Indians to attend US summit tributing ann ual revenue of in 2008 and 2009. By moving most of its at companies from across ■ The solution aims to Anuradha Adhikary Six Indians will attend the two-day presidential approxim ately $300 million, “Almost all of the offshore non-billable work offshore, diverse industries who have capture this space & summit on entrepreneurship from April 26 in US. and this is expected to reach outsourcing work is sent by these firms can reduce this recognised sustainable de- help firms deploy the ENGAGING GenNext 18,000 professionals with an the US and the UK. More cost by approximately 10 per velopment through optimal mitigation plans ■ IT’S getting tougher annual revenue of $960 mil- than 90 pet cent of the LPO cent. The implementation resource utilisation. and tougher for compa- Citi puts 3 in acquisition finance lion by December 2015, said work is either directly out- of Clementi proposals in the The launch of the service to positively impact climate nies to manage its Citigroup appointed Najeeb Haider as the MD, Dr Alok Aggarwal, co- sourced by corporate coun- UK may also provide a boost becomes significant for Indi- change, said a statement. young crowd these and two others, for its acquisition finance team. founder and chairman of sels or on behalf of corporate to the LPO industry. an industries when adopting These companies also days, which is forcing Evalueserve, a knowledge counsels (by their preferred a green policy, which has be- have carbon consultants them to innovate ways Compiled from agencies process outsourcing (KPO) law firms). Due to the reces- [email protected] come important after the advising on how to abate to engage the GenY in- declaration made by the carbon emission and quite to newer ways of com- government on the coun- often industries are left to munication. It’s no try’s voluntary emission tar- fend for themselves while news that youngsters India ranked gets, mjunction said. implementing the carbon want to stay connected New smartcards to hold clinical data Viresh Oberoi, MD of abatement strategies. with the outside world mjunction, said, “Business Thus, there is a require- through social network- 5th in world N VASUDEVAN based Healthcare IT com- entities need progressive ini- ment of a service provider ing, even while on their Bangalore Medical aid pany Yos Technologies, tiatives to propel who can help work desks. Big IT said, “Just as the UID will a greener system these compa- firms have got the mes- ■ Many companies in SMARTCARDS (with em- hold the general identity for into their prac- nies in imple- sage and are working in cyber crime India create healthcare bedded chips) issued at all citizens, smartcards and tices. Natural re- mentation of out ways to pull their technologies for the BUSINESS OF N VASUDEVAN some hospitals in India, associated personal health sources consti- their carbon office crowd on inter- developed world Bangalore which generally used to record will hold the health tute the back- GREEN mitigation nal, or even external, contain only personal infor- ■ But, in India information identity of all citizens. For a bone for all in- strategies to websites to discuss and SYMANTEC, in its fif- mation of the patients, are technology in healthcare country like India, having a dustries and sus- keep their cost comment on office teenth edition of ‘Internet evolving as a tool that would offerings is still in the medical identity and data- taining our ecological re- at a minimum, and imple- challenges and issues.