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If the recent recession and meltdown has taken away your job, here is a site that will try and help you bounce back. Taking inspiration from Purple People Collective in the US, a site originally meant for laid off “Yahoos”, and now others who’ve been laid off, AskSaurabh.com is an initiative that seeks to help laid off techie folks [...]

The financial slowdown has reached Mountain View, as Google plans to give employees an Android powered handset instead of the $1,000 cash gifts it usually gives. In countries where the phone does not work as yet, like the BRIC countries, Google will give employees $400 (which is the cash value of the phone).

Dipchand ‘Deep’ Nishar is all set to leave Google and join LinkedIn. A six year veteran who built and managed Google’s mobile business worldwide besides being Sr. Director of Product Management with responsibility for product development in the APAC region, Nishar is joining LinkedIn as Vice President-Products, and expected to begin in his new role from [...]

The Pan-IIT 2008 Global Conference is to be held between December 19 and 21 this year, and around 3,000 IIT alumni, 2000 students and 200 delegates are expected to attend the event at IIT Madras. You can register at http://www.paniit2008.org. PanIIT 2008 Presentation – IIT Alumni Global Conference

Barely a couple of months after the Indian CEO of Graziano was killed by a mob of dismissed workers, Sid Agrawal, the 56 year old CEO of SiPort, a semiconductor company, was shot dead by Jing Hua Wu, a 47 year old lead product test engineer, who was apparently laid off just recently. The ex-employee also managed to kill two [...]

Professional networking site LinkedIn has received funding worth $22.7 million, which is a follow on to their Series D funding in June ’08. The present set of investors comprise Goldman Sachs, McGraw Hill, SAP Ventures, as well as a re-investment by Bessemer Venture Partners.

Saw an article in the DNA today about an Assistant HR manager of Deutsche Bank, Gautam Deepak Baan, who was arrested by the Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of the Mumbai crime branch for allegedly defrauding the bank of Rs. 1.63 crores. A 28 year old guy, he drew a salary of Rs.10 lakh a year and enjoyed living it [...]