Sufia Tippu joins iTWire

Paul Hosking
Wednesday, 24 May 2006 19:44

IT Industry - Market

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.

During her stint with the Times of India, Tippu has interacted with most of the global CEOs of large corporations including Bill Gates (Microsoft), Scott McNealy ( Sun Microsystems), Craig Barrett (Intel), Larry Ellison ( Oracle), Tom Engibous ( Texas Instruments) David Filo, (Yahoo co-founder) as well as a number of visiting dignitaries like the ambassador the state of Washington and British UK Minister for Trade and Commerce, Russian ICT minister, among others. She has also intervewed the CEOs of leading Indian software houses such as Infosys Chairman Narayana Murthy, Infosys CEO Nandan Nilekani, Wipro Chief Executive Azim Premji, TCS’ Ramadorai, HCL boss, Shiv Nadar and Satyam Computers’ Ramalinga Raju. We look forward to bringing you some of the best technology stories in Asia as it happens from one the best technology writers in the business.