San Francisco: Groupon said on Wednesday that it promoted Kal Raman to chief operating officer, giving the executive more power as the world's largest daily deal company tries to turn around its struggling international businesses. Kal Raman is a graduate from College of Engineering, Guindy, Anna University, Chennai.
Raman joined the company in April and was previously Senior Vice President, Global Sales and Operations. As COO, he will continue to report to Chief Executive Andrew Mason and oversee the company's global sales and operations, Groupon said.
Groupon lost two COOs when the company was growing at a ferocious pace leading up to its initial public offering late last year. Since then, growth has slowed to the point where many on Wall Street and beyond question the company's business model.
Groupon shares have lost more than three quarters of their value since the IPO. The stock hit record lows in recent days after the company reported disappointing third-quarter results as it struggled to turn around its European business. Raman has been leading the re-organisation efforts in Europe....
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09:46 AM, Nov 15, 2012
Coimbatore: What made the probe into the Anna University semester exam marks scandal easy was the ready confessions of the three suspended faculty members. The scam would have never been probed, despite widespread knowledge about it for the past two years, but for written complaints from assistant professors Sivakoumar and Mani Anand. In late May, a few Anna University professors received anonymous petitions that several students of College of Engineering...
12:33 PM, Sep 24, 2012
Coimbatore: After the University of Madras and Anna University, an examination marks scandal has now rocked the Bharathiar University in Coimbatore. Non-teaching staff of the university has been caught attempting to feed higher marks " in computer records " for 96 students who were pursuing Bachelors in Business Management course through the universitys School of Distance Education. All the candidates had enrolled through a study centre in Kerala and had...
12:21 PM, Aug 16, 2012
Chennai: The decision of the government to enforce the merger of all five Anna Universities of Technology (AUTs) with the Anna University in Chennai from August 1 has brought with it a host of changes to the functioning of these institutions. The announcement made on Sunday said that 535 engineering colleges in the State, including those in the five places where the AUTs were created, would now become affiliated colleges...
01:22 PM, Jul 23, 2012
Chennai: While media reports, including those in Express, on Tuesday suggested that a probe had been launched into irregularities in the allocation of industrial quota seats at the Anna University, officials at the varsity claimed ignorance about any such investigations and termed the reports a surprise. However, most of them, while not ruling out the possibility of irregularities, said such a scam would be highly difficult to execute, given the...
12:58 PM, Jul 18, 2012
Coimbatore: At 39, some people may contemplate a mid-career change. But S Nambirajan, a disabled man on the wrong side of thirties, is on a course correction. Nearly 22 years after he completed schooling, the June 1973-born orthopaedically challenged man has decided to try his luck in entering an engineering college to pursue a BE degree programme. Nambirajan is the oldest applicant in the race for this years Tamil Nadu...
12:03 PM, Jul 05, 2012
Madurai: The Madurai Bench of the Madras High court recently directed the Anna University of Technology, Madurai, to provide affiliation to an Engineering College run by a Trust of Union Minister M K Alagiri's family, according to law as per an earlier court order, before July 7. A Division Bench of Justices R.Banumathi and B.Rajendran directed the AUT to get the report from the Inspection Committee on or before July...
04:02 PM, Jun 30, 2012
Coimbatore: A thriving exam marks racket involving some faculty members and officials has come to light in the premier Anna University in Chennai. The racket has helped children of influential parents who failed in semester examinations to pass with flying colours in two of the universitys four renowned campuses " the College of Engineering in Guindy (CEG) and the Madras Institute of Technology (MIT) in Chromepet. Rumours about the shocking...
12:32 PM, Jun 25, 2012
New Delhi: Chennai-based Anna University has rescheduled its annual exams because of 'the administrative reasons', as cited by the office of the Controller of Examinations of the university. The notice, posted on the University website on Thursday, says: "It is informed that Theory Examinations scheduled for certain dates of May/June 2012 Examinations of Anna University pertaining to all Affiliated Colleges for the UG and PG Degree Programmes are rescheduled due...
12:45 PM, Apr 27, 2012
CHENNAI: S Dhairyalakshmi. Her name embodied courage, but the 19-year-old engineering student of Anna University, who came from a rural background, apparently lost the will to live. On Tuesday, she committed suicide by hanging herself in her hostel room. In a suicide note, she claimed that she was leaving because of her inability to cope with academics.Hailing from K V Palayam in Villupuram district, Dhairyalakshmi, was a first year civil...
07:22 AM, Apr 18, 2012
Coimbatore: The Anna University of Technology, Coimbatore, has decided to collect contributions from the University Department and 200 affiliated colleges for the Chief Minister's public relief fund to help 'Thane' victims. This follows an appeal by Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa to the public and philanthropists to lend a helping hand to the massive relief and rehabilitation efforts launched by the TN Government, V-Cof the university K Karunakaran said in a...
11:13 AM, Jan 17, 2012
CHENNAI: Noting that solar radiance was 1.4 times higher in the extra terrestrial level than on earth, former President of India APJ Abdul Kalam suggested solar energy from the space as a possible source of renewable energy to meet energy needs. This space-based solar power could be transmitted to earth using nano energy packs, he explained on Monday, after inaugurating the National Laser Symposium at the Anna University. Solar-based power...
08:30 AM, Jan 10, 2012
Coimbatore: Over the last three years, every time the Anna University (Chennai) exam results were declared, students of a batch of BE Computer Science Engineering at the Kamban Engineering College in Tiruvannamalai were perplexed. They found a certain Arun Kumar Reddy's name on the rolls, who always passed with flying colours. But no student had ever seen a person called Reddy in the class or even in the exam hall....
10:30 AM, May 04, 2011
Senthil Kumar, a hearing impaired student in Chennai has turned Citizen Journalist to tell you about the discrimination he faced at the Anna University. ...
01:41 PM, Aug 22, 2010
Anna University accepts money from Dow for scholarship for students. ...
04:44 PM, Jan 15, 2010
Rahman was being conferred a Honorary Doctorate by Anna University. ...
10:17 PM, Aug 01, 2009
The honour will be awarded by Chennai's Anna University. ...
02:42 AM, Mar 04, 2009
SC has made it mandatory for colleges to file FIRs in cases of ragging. ...
02:49 PM, Aug 30, 2007
Kalam has decided to return to his old passion of teaching at his Alma Mater. ...
09:00 AM, Jul 25, 2007
TCS made job offers to 1,006 students on the campus. ...
03:16 AM, Jul 01, 2007
