iTWire is proud to welcome aboard Sufia Tippu as our senior India and Asia correspondent. With more than 17 years experience commentating on technology issues, Tippu has been with The Times of India group, which is the leading publication house in India for more than 10 years. At The Times of India she served as Special Correspondent (IT) for nearly seven years in Bangalore and earlier with the group’s business daily, The Economic Times, Chennai for three years.Prior to this, she was with the electronic media, Plus Channel as well as the Financial Express, part of the Indian Express group of newspapers in Chennai for over seven years.Tippu is based in Bangalore, the knowledge capital of India which houses 75,000 programmers and is Indian headquarters to all the major software multinationals, including Microsoft, Intel, IBM, Texas Instruments, HP, GE, Philips, Motorola, Broadcom, ARM, Flextronics, et al.