The Department of Management Studies, IIT Delhi is organizing its annual business festival Parivartan on February 15-17 at IIT Delhi. This year’s Parivartan comes with the theme Bizz-Bang…The Celestial Odyssey and aims to capture a snapshot of the expanding Indian business universe.

Parivartan is the celebration of the Indian Economy encapsulating business growth through a colorful spectrum of events. This colorful collage of events aim to test the business acumen, creativity and intellectual prowess of the participants making it an enriching experience for the participants as well as for the organizers.

The curtain raiser for Parivartan, scheduled on February 15, will be graced by none other than the country’s first woman IPS officer Kiran Bedi and Ambassador J. C. Sharma.

Parivartan sees participation from Business Schools all over the country and corporate as well. This year, over 100 teams are arriving on campus to take part in the fest. On day one, it will begin with on-the-spot games. These include HR based consulting games among many others.

The formal Inauguration for Parivartan 2008 will commence from 9:30 am at DMS auditorium, IIT Delhi.

Deepak Parekh, Chairman of HDFC Bank, will be the chief guest and Sidharth Gautam will be the guest of honour at the inaugural function.

Following the inaugural, the main events of the day will unfold with a series of competitions like case study competition, personality tests and entrepreneurial games that strive to bring out the creativity and business acumen of budding managers-to-be.

Parivartan serves as a platform for interaction between students and celebrities from different walk of life and corporate. The third day of Parivartan 2008 will be star studded, with eminent persona from media, corporate and academia addressing the gathering.

The media conclave at Parivartan is on the 17th and will see an eminent panel discuss on The Business-Media Confluence. This panel includes Sanjay Salil, MD, Mediaguru Consultants; Ved Pratap Vaidik, senior journalist and author; P. Pandey, CEO Radio Mirchi and Kanchan Gupta, Executive Editor, The Pioneer.

The guests at the Halley’s workshop include award winning film director Prakash Jha, Olympic medalist Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore and Navjot Singh Sidhu, cricketer. Among the corporate invitees who would be interacting with the gathering include Ashwani Keshwani, country head, Oetiker India and W.Selvamoorthy, Chief Controller, DRDO.

Parivartan 2008 will close on the 17th with a corporate dinner. This corporate dinner will see guests from different industries that will interact with students and share their wisdom....


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Microsoft Corp's intended takeover of Yahoo Inc would instantly raise its profile on the burgeoning mobile Internet by adding Yahoo's range of on-the-go services to its mobile unit, until now focused on promoting its own operating system.

Yahoo has made strides in the last year to position itself for an expected explosion in Internet usage on cellphones, developing slick tools for mobile search, mail and social connections that have caught the eye of big telecoms carriers.

That strategy will likely pay off in terms of mobile advertising revenues in the medium to long term - too late to make any difference in the face of Microsoft's unsolicited $42 billion bid, rebuffed by Yahoo as too low.

Microsoft has sought to duplicate its PC strategy with a mobile phone operating system, Windows Mobile.

But the software is in only a small proportion of so-called smartphones - phones with computer-like functions - and mobile users are focusing more and more on online services they can access rather than just applications loaded on handsets.

Microsoft's MSN Mobile service, offering access to its popular instant messenger as well as search, mail and news, could benefit from Yahoo's services expertise, though its perceived strong-arm tactics could upset relationships Yahoo has built with telecoms carriers.

Microsoft signaled change in its mobile strategy at this week's Mobile World Congress fair in Barcelona by saying it was buying consumer mobile software company Danger -- just before announcing that the head of its mobile unit would quit to join Vodafone Group Plc.

"There's clearly a renewal going on at Microsoft Mobile," said Ben Wood of CCS Insight, citing Microsoft's alliance with Sony Ericsson, also announced at the fair, and a previous acquisition of voice Web search company Tellme.

Unlike other parts of Yahoo - such as PC search, e-mail or instant messaging - the addition of Yahoo's mobile activities should not result in redundant capacities at Microsoft because the mobile Web services market is so new and growing so fast.

But there is little obvious to gain from any deeper integration of the two - on the contrary, it could make Yahoo's software less easily adaptable to the specifications of handset makers or operators - currently a strength for Yahoo.

Yahoo's software for keeping up with social networks or finding local information easily on the go does fit with Windows Mobile, however, as well as with other platforms.

Operating system a distraction?

Outgoing Windows Mobile chief Pieter Knook declined to speak...


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