Tvm: With the pass percentage of students admitted to engineering colleges alarmingly low, students with accumulated supplementary papers are quite common these days. PassTheExam.in, a professional initiative launched by Trivandrum based Career Center, addresses this major socio-economic problem by mentoring students faced with back papers in various engineering courses in universities across Kerala and Tamil Nadu, to start off with.

Tvm: SunTec, the Trivandrum based global provider of Relationship-based Pricing and Enterprise Billing solutions, today announced that it was contracted by Commerzbank, a leading bank for private and corporate customers in Germany, to deploy a Pricing and Billing technology solution.

Tvm: Amid signs of rising interest among the Business community following the launch of the ‘Emerging Kerala’ branding campaign, a confident and resurgent Kerala will hold a road show in India’s financial Capital on May 15, 2012 with a call to captains of trade and industry to forge mutually beneficial economic and commercial engagements with the state and help accelerate its rapid economic growth.

Chief Minister, Shri Oommen Chandy along with Industries & IT Minister, Shri P K Kunhalikutty and Finance Minister, Shri K M Mani, will launch the road show by holding an interactive session with the India Inc and unfolding before them a raft of potentials and opportunities that state has on offer for making investments in God’s Own Country. Leading entrepreneurs from Kerala will share their success stories.

The meeting is part of a string of domestic and international road shows, business meets and conclaves the Kerala government has planned in connection with ‘Emerging Kerala’, a three-day global connect opportunity for business leaders, investors and policymakers scheduled in the commercial hub of Kochi from September 12 - 14.

Emerging Kerala is being organised by the Government of Kerala with Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and NASSCOM as partners to the event. The Kerala State Industrial Development Corporation (KSIDC) is the nodal agency for the summit, which is intended as a biennial event. 

Alkesh Sharma IAS, Secretary - Industry & MD, KSIDC said, “The goal of this branding exercise is to catalyse growth through enabling policies and to facilitate an environment for business development. We need to highlight the fact that Kerala is an investor-friendly destination with the potential to become an economic powerhouse of the country.”

Emerging Kerala will be provide a platform to Corporate and Business Leaders, Heads of the Governments, Experts, Planners and stakeholders to also discuss, deliberate and advise on the future course of action for sustainable economic development in Kerala and India.

The Chief Minister and his key ministers and senior bureaucrats had earlier met top business leaders and overseas diplomats in New Delhi on April 20, signaling the launch of a six-month-long build-up to one of the biggest investment branding exercises the State has ever undertaken.

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Tvm: Despite having the potential to be a leading Tier-2 city, Trivandrum needs a serious course correction to attract MNCs or else a great opportunity is being lost by Kerala. This is the highlight of a first-of-its-kind study to evaluate the growing popularity and suitability of emerging locations in India titled, ‘Location Analysis: Emerging cities in India’, by Zinnov, a leading Globalization and Market Expansion advisory firm.

Tvm: The Kerala Microsoft Users Group (K-MUG) will be organising their next Developers Conference, DevCon 2012 on May 19, 2012 at the Park Centre in Technopark, Trivandrum. Billed as the largest Microsoft tech event in Kerala, DevCon 2012 would see a large number of software professionals engage and collaborate with Microsoft MVPs and other IT peers. The key attractions this time would be the Windows Phone and Windows 8 sessions.

Interacting with Kerala IT News, Sreejumon K P, one of the organisers, said, “There are three tracks on Windows Phone and I am sure this will attract many .NET developers into the Windows Phone ecosystem and application development. For the first time we are also doing a preview of Windows 8, the upcoming edition of the Windows Operating System from Microsoft, for the techies in Kerala.

Access Any Data Any Where, XNA based game development for Windows Phone, Visual Studio 11, Windows Phone App Development - HTML5, Hybrid & Cross Platform, ASP.NET Web APIs and Tips and Best Practices for Windows Phone Development are some of the sessions planned for the Developer Conference.

“We have an idea contest as well happening. The shortlisted attendees will present their ideas and a panel will select the top three ideas. The topper would get a Nokia Lumia 800 and all the great ideas will get support from Nokia to develop their application and submit in to Market place”, added Sreejumon.

The last Developers Conference to be held in Thiruvananthapuram was DevCon 2010 in July, 2010. Check out the DevCon 2012 homepage to get details about the sessions, speakers and for registration.

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Tvm: CII Kerala is going to establish a national Centre of Excellence on Entrepreneurship & Innovation for MSMEs in Kerala. This was announced by V K Mathews, Chairman, CII Kerala and also Executive Chairman, IBS Software, after the second Kerala State Council meeting of CII in Trivandrum today.  CII Kerala will publish an ‘Entrepreneurs Book’ showcasing successful entrepreneurs from the State.