Making his first appearance in the elite World Golf Championships (WGC) event, Piercy will next meet 2001 champion Steve Stricker. ...
08:31 AM, Feb 23, 2013
London: An innovative scheme to use prisoners with genuine British accents in call centres inside UK jails is being considered by the Ministry of Justice as part of its work programme for prisoners. One of the consumer complaints against British companies who have call centres in India has been that Indian workers sometimes do not understand the many regional British accents of callers, resulting in errors. There are reports that...
05:09 AM, Aug 11, 2012
Bangalore/Mumbai: The conservatism that served Infosys Ltd so well for three decades is now stunting its growth, prompting calls from investors for new blood at the top of India's showpiece outsourcer. Critics say Infosys also must shed its aversion to acquisitions, change its premium pricing strategy and make better headway in higher-end businesses like consulting to compete with global rivals IBM and Accenture. "It's one thing to get to the...
12:48 PM, May 07, 2012
Marana, Arizona: Rory McIlroy and Lee Westwood set up a mouth-watering duel in the last-four of the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship when they each completed comfortable victories in Saturday's quarter-finals. Northern Ireland's world number two McIlroy never trailed before beating South Korean Bae Sang-moon 3&2, while third-ranked Westwood won 4&2 against fellow Briton Martin Laird at Dove Mountain's Ritz-Carlton Golf Club. Either McIlroy or Westwood can depose Luke Donald as...
10:33 AM, Feb 26, 2012
Marana, Arizona: Tiger Woods tumbled out of the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship on Thursday after fellow Americans Hunter Mahan and Dustin Johnson had eased into the third round with commanding victories. Mahan became the first player to advance, crushing South Korean Yang Yong-eun 5&3, and Johnson followed with a 7&5 demolition of Italy's Francesco Molinari at Dove Mountain's Ritz-Carlton Golf Club. Three-time champion Woods, however, went out in the second...
12:19 PM, Feb 24, 2012
Davos: Infosys, India's second largest software services exporter, aims to expand its workforce in Europe, but is having trouble finding the computer science graduates it needs, the head of its European operations said on Friday. "The biggest problem for us with regard to hiring is that there aren't enough people who want to study computer science in Europe and the UK," said BG Srinivas, head of European operations at Infosys....
09:27 AM, Jan 28, 2012
Shanghai: Infosys Ltd, India's No 2 software services exporter, is looking for acquisitions worth up to $ 700 million, Infosys' Executive Co-Chairman Kris Gopalakrishnan said on Thursday. Infosys has been on the hunt for acquisitions in the healthcare and life science sectors and is looking at firms that have platforms or niches in geographies that its lacks. "Typically, the size we are looking for is up to 10 per cent...
11:25 AM, Oct 27, 2011
Toronto: Keira Knightley will speak with an English accent when she plays the classic Russian character of Anna Karenina, the actress said on Sunday at the Toronto Film Festival. The British actress, who is at Toronto promoting her role in 'A Dangerous Method' -- in which she also plays a Russian character -- told Reuters in an interview on Sunday that for her biggest role yet, in the upcoming 'Anna...
01:02 PM, Sep 12, 2011
Helsinki: Nokia, the world's largest phone maker by volume, will lay off 4,000 people and outsource another 3,000 to Accenture as part of a plan to slash annual spending by 1 billion euros ($1.46 billion). Nokia said it would outsource its Symbian software activities to Accenture, who will provide mobility software services to Nokia for future smartphones. Nokia has seen its market share in smartphones falling sharply over the past...
02:51 PM, Apr 27, 2011
Arizona: Upsets and heavy defeats dominated the menu as top seed Lee Westwood, fourth seed Phil Mickelson and seventh-ranked Rory McIlroy tumbled out of the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship on Thursday. Westwood lost one-down to American Nick Watney in the second round, left-hander Mickelson was stunned 6&5 by fellow American Rickie Fowler and Northern Irishman McIlroy was pummeled 8&7 by American Ben Crane. In other matches, long-hitting Bubba Watson hammered...
12:01 AM, Feb 26, 2011
Arizona: Tiger Woods, Steve Stricker and holder Ian Poulter made early exits as the opening round of the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship lived up to its reputation of wild unpredictability on Wednesday. There were 14 upsets in all from the 32 matches at Dove Mountain's Ritz-Carlton Golf Club, fulfilling world number one Lee Westwood's pre-tournament description of the first day as "one of the most exciting days of the year."...
12:09 AM, Feb 25, 2011
London: If you say tomato, and I say tomahto, the British Library wants to know. The research institution is inviting people to have their voices recorded as part of a project to chart the way pronunciation and accents in English are changing. The library wants visitors to read aloud a passage from a children's book, 'Mr Tickle', so linguists can compare the way people make vowel sounds, learn how they...
10:51 AM, Oct 29, 2010
Jeev's short game, however, stood him in good stead and Kuchar could not bridge that gap. ...
11:49 AM, Feb 19, 2010
The golfer was estimated to earn $100 million a year from endorsement deals. ...
08:11 AM, Dec 15, 2009
Many sponsors have dumped Tiger Woods after the sex scandal. ...
07:52 AM, Dec 15, 2009
For past 6 years, Woods and Accenture had a sponsorship arrangement. ...
07:53 AM, Dec 14, 2009
Woods was injured in a car crash at night outside his home last month. ...
01:49 PM, Dec 09, 2009
Think you haven't seen a game changer in a long time? ...
12:59 PM, Jul 23, 2009
Woods surrendered an early one-hole advantage and lost on the 16th green. ...
10:10 PM, Feb 27, 2009
