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Raju Files Fresh Bail Plea







B Ramalinga Raju, founder and chairman, Satyam Computer Services filed a

fresh bail application in the Andhra Pradesh High Court, claiming that he had

voluntarily surrendered to the police and was cooperating with the investigating

agencies in all respects as a law-abiding citizen. Apart from Raju, all other

nine accused in Indias biggest corporate fraud have been granted bail. Raju is

undergoing treatment for hepatitis-C at a Hyderabad hospital while officially in

police custody.

Panel to Search for Tatas Successor







Tata Sons, the holding company of the Tata group, has set up a five-member
committee to find a successor to Ratan Tata, who will retire at the age of

seventy-five. Ratan Tata, chairman of the $72 bn Tata Group, is due to retire in

December 2012. The panel will look within the group and outside, including

overseas, for a new head for the salt-to-software conglomerate.

Garde Becomes New Director, Dell







Sameer Gardewho has been the Dell Indias country head and led Dells LE
business for the last eighteen months since the companys reorganization into a

customer-centric BU structuremoves into an expanded role as the Asia Pacific

and Japan (APJ) director, services sales and marketing.

Parikh Wins Lifetime Achievement Award







Indira Parikh, president, Foundation for Liberal and Management Education
(FLAME) and former dean, IIM Ahmedabad, was awarded Lifetime achievement and

the Best teacher of the Decade awards at the Asia B-School Awards held in

Suntec, Singapore.

Kale Promoted to Sales Director, CA







CA Technologies (India) has promoted Pushkaraj Kale from account director to

the position of sales director. He would now be responsible for setting a

strategic direction for all CAs solution areas in the entire western region of

India

CA Names Lim as MD, APAC







Lionel Lim will join CA Technologies as president, Asia Pacific, effective

from August 30, 2010. Lim will be responsible for growing CA Technologies

business in the APAC region that includes Australia/New Zealand, India, Greater

China, Taiwan, Korea and Southeast Asia. Prior to joining CA Technologies, Lim

spent twenty years at Sun Microsystems and ten years at HP.

Rawat is New CEO, Bharti Infratel







Bharti Infratel, a subsidiary of Bharti Airtel, announced the appointment of
Devender Singh Rawat as its CEO. Rawat would be responsible for putting together

and driving a concrete long term strategy for the company and proactively

handling matters relating to business augmentation, operations and service

excellence. He would also be responsible for key transformation projects such as

energy saving and deployment of renewable energy-saving solutions, Classic IT

(CIT) business process automation and the state-of-the-art network operating

center (NOC).

Arun Kumar Gives Hat to Khow







Red Hat, provider of open source solutions, announced six senior management

appointments to boost its Asia-Pacific management team and position the company

for growth in the region. Kenny Khow has been appointed as senior director.

Srinivasan, VP, Yahoo! Steps Down

Srinija Srinivasan, who helped launch Yahoo! more than fifteen years ago, announced that she would be stepping down. The vice president and editor-in-chief, Srinivasans departure comes as Carol Bartz, chief executive oversees an ongoing turnaround effort at Yahoo! which has involved restructuring the management and shifting focus away from search. The company is emphasizing on its online display-advertising business.

Mallyas Website Hacked







Industrialist and Rajya Sabha MP, Vijay Mallya was taken by shock on

Independence day when his official website, www.mallyainparliament.com, was

hacked, apparently by a Pakistani outfit. The Pakistani flag was placed on the

site with a dire message from an organization claiming to be the Pakistan Cyber

Army. The website has now been fixed and the Pakistani statements have been

removed.

Lesjak Appointed as HPs Interim CEO







A company insider since twenty-four years, Cathie Lesjak, has been appointed

by the HP board as interim CEO following the abrupt resignation of Mark Hurd on

August 6, 2010. Lesjak has been HPs chief financial officer and a member of

HPs executive council since January 2007.

Alcatel-Lucent Appoints Seth as Country Head







Alcatel-Lucent appointed Munish Seth as country head for its Indian

business. Seth who brings twenty years of expertise and experience in the

telecom industry, takes over from Vivek Mohan, who now heads Alcatel-Lucents

global services business. Seth, who was the chief technical officer at Tekelec

before joining Alcatel-Lucent, will report to Rajeev Singh-Molares, president of

the Asia-Pacific region.