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A Microsoft press release states "The cases have been settled through a patent agreement in which Salesforce.com will receive broad coverage under Microsoft's patent portfolio for its products and services as well as its back-end server infrastructure during the term. Also as part of the agreement, Microsoft receives coverage under Salesforce.com's patent portfolio for Microsoft's products and services."
Horacio Gutierrez, corporate vice president and deputy general counsel of Intellectual Property and Licensing at Microsoft declared "Microsoft's patent portfolio is the strongest in the software industry and is the result of decades of software innovation. Today's agreement is an example of how companies can compete vigorously in the marketplace while respecting each other's intellectual property rights."
Major players like Google, Amazon, and Salesforce exist solely in the cloud and have been a leading force in demonstrating the benefits of Web-based applications and storage, and driving businesses to migrate to the cloud. Microsoft has an advantage, though, with its vision of the cloud.
It is easier to take an established dominance in client-server technologies, messaging, and productivity--software and services that businesses already rely on--and convince customers to migrate to the cloud, than it is to take an established presence in the cloud and build credible tools and services to compete with Microsoft.
It often seems like Microsoft is oblivious to technology trends, and simply lacks the agility to compete in new markets. Over time, though, Microsoft also has a demonstrated ability to come late to the party, crash it, and emerge as a dominant force after the fact. That seems to describe Microsoft's ascent into the cloud.
Microsoft seemed opposed to the cloud trend, fighting for the traditional client-server model it has built its server and desktop operating system empire on. When stubborn denial fails, though--and the cloud goes on despite Microsoft--eventually Microsoft has to recognize that there is a culture shift going on in technology and figure out how to adapt.
Fortunately for Microsoft, it has the intellectual property to create a compelling cloud service, as well as the customer base and corporate credibility to successfully market its Azure services and carve out a significant share of the cloud market. With the recently unveiled Windows Azure Platform appliance, Microsoft also offers a bit of a bridge between the traditional client-server model and the true cloud-based Azure platform.
Now, with the Salesforce patent suits out of the way--including some monetary compensation to line Microsoft's pockets--Microsoft can proceed with doing what it does best: assimilate, adapt, and overcome.
DHAKA, Jan 23 2018 (IPS) - Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2013.
It is past midnight. The aircraft come in from Saudi Arabia carrying workers who had been hastily ejected. They had gone from Ethiopia to work in a variety of jobs in a Kingdom flush with oil wealth.
It is December 2013. Ethiopian migrant workers descend from the aircraft. They carry plastic bags that hold their belongings. There are few signs that they have benefitted from their hard labor in Saudi Arabia. A few of the migrants walk down without shoes. The air is chilly. They must be cold in their shirts and pants, their feet on the hard ground.
What was the reason for their expulsion? The Saudi authorities said that these were migrants who came into the country without papers. They had crossed the dangerous Gulf of Aden in rickety boats. Saudi Arabia welcomes these migrants, even those without documents, largely because they – under duress – offer their services at very low rates of pay. At punctual intervals, the Saudi government goes after these undocumented workers, arresting them in public, throwing them in deportation camps in Riyadh and then shipping them home.
That was in 2013. Between June of 2017 and the end of the year the Saudi authorities detained 250,000 foreigners and sent home 96,000 Ethiopians. When the Saudi government feels particularly vicious, it carts the Ethiopians to the Saudi-Yemen border and merely leaves them on the Yemeni side. Yemen, still bombed almost daily by Saudi Arabia, is hardly the place to welcome desperate Ethiopians.
The periodic cycle of allowing undocumented workers into the country and then humiliating them by this kind of public ejection maintains the workers in fear and allows the human traffickers and the employers to keep wages as low as possible. There is no one to complain to.
Why do the Ethiopians keep returning to Saudi Arabia? Ethiopia is a country in dire economic distress. Six to nine million Ethiopians have needed food aid of one kind or another last year, as severe drought and poverty have combined to create a near famine situation. Southeastern Ethiopia, from where many of the migrant workers come, has seen the drought destroy livestock herds and reduce crop production.
It is in this same area that Ethiopia hosts 894,000 refugees from Eritrea, Somalia, South Sudan and Sudan. Those refugees come for reasons of hunger and conflict. Last year alone, 106,000 refugees entered Ethiopia, most of them from South Sudan (whose citizens now number 420,000 in Ethiopia). A country that hosts almost a million refugees – itself wracked by distress – sends perhaps a million to the Arabian Peninsula (there are half a million in Saudi Arabia itself). It is a cycle of refugees that now defines the planet.
I can’t get the lack of shoes out of my mind. Ethiopian workers say that they are mistreated routinely in Saudi Arabia – sexual violence against domestic workers, beatings of all workers, harassment by the police. This has become normal. It is the way we live now.
While in Dhaka, I visited the Drik Gallery III, where I saw the exhibition of photographs taken by Shahidul Alam of Bangladeshi migrants to Malaysia. The pictures are vivid illustrations of the hope in the eyes of the migrants and the great sense of disappointment, as life does not turn out as it was promised for most of them. Alam’s photography shines – his own personal compassion draws out emotions of great sincerity from the men and women he photographs.
Alam gave me his book – The Best Years of My Life – which collects the pictures that I saw in the gallery, with a moving text that he wrote to accompany his photographs. The book traces the journey of Bangladeshi migrants – chasing a dream – to Malaysia’s factories and fields, where they work for low wages, get cheated by traffickers, by officials and by their peers. The lure of savings to help their families at home leads the workers to sacrifice their own lives. Sahanaz Parben’s son (age 11) calls her aunty; he barely knows her. Babu Biswas’s children have seen him briefly three times over the past decade. “They are doing well,” he says.
The legal status of these migrants is often unclear. It is precisely their tenuous legal status that forces them to bid down the rate of wages. But the money of the ‘illegal’ migrant is not illegal. It is welcomed into Bangladesh. There are roughly 9 million Bangladeshi migrants (according to the World Bank). They send home 15 billion dollars. Based on a five-year average, this amounts to 10% of Bangladesh’s Gross Domestic Product.
This is not as high a percentage as that of Liberia, where more than a quarter of its GDP comes from remittances from migrant workers. These economies would crumble without the small amounts of money from millions of workers that adds up to large amounts of foreign exchange for these countries. It is worth noting that Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) into Bangladesh is merely 0.9% of its GDP. The remittance of migrant workers is of far greater economic value than the FDI from foreign banks and corporations.
And yet, as Alam finds, the government of Bangladesh is cavalier towards the migrant. The High Commissioner Mohammed Hafiz seems a nice enough man. But he has essentially given up on his duties. “What can I do?” he asks.
The activists have it correctly. Parimala Narayanasamy of Coordination of Action Research on AID and Mobility (CARAM) tells Alam that “sending governments should come out strong to say that if any country needed workers, then they – the sending countries – should set the terms and conditions.” This is exactly what is not done, neither by the governments of Bangladesh nor of Ethiopia.
They treat the foreign bankers and corporate executives like heroes. They treat their own nationals that send in far greater amounts of money like criminals.
At Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka, I charge my phone. Two men come and ask to use my charger. They are off to the Gulf. I don’t have a charger that fits their phone. A woman comes to me, hands me her boarding pass and asks me when her flight gets into Abu Dhabi. She is to be picked up by her employer. The boarding pass does not have the time of arrival. She looks in her bag for her ticket. There is so little there. One of the men asks her if she has a charger. She does not. They smile at each other. They have so much in common. They will find a way to help each other. It is the way of these workers. They have themselves and their families. Everyone sees them as an inconvenience.
So Ethiopia has 7 million undernourished people, a fertility rate of 4 per couple, and over 100 million people at present in a drought prone region, but we won’t even mention overpopulation or family planning as a potential answer to this simmering problem?
You’re absolutely right Friendly Guy. Ggovernments all around neglect this crucial issue.
Gurbux Singh, chairman of the Commission for Racial Equality, answered your questions in a live forum on the day The Home Office published four separate reports into the summer race riots in Oldham, Burnley and Bradford.
Should the CRE be scrapped?
How do you see race relations progressing?
Integrating into British culture -how?
In favour of desegregating schools?
Mike from Middlesbrough, England: "Isn't it time that the CRE was scrapped, the CRE isn't relevant to white people and does nothing to help them, it refuses to recognise black/Asian racism against whites."
And Tim Lenihan, England: We talk about prejudice but there are significant numbers of Asian employers in this country who will not employ non-Asians or in a lot of cases non-family members. If that was happening in the white community there would be uproar.
Well clearly I don't agree with Mike's view which is that the CRE should be scrapped, I think the CRE does some very important work and if the CRE wasn't actually here then many of the issues of race discrimination, many of the individuals who come to us to seek redress within the courts, would not get the support and the assistance that we actually provide. There is one point which I think I do want to agree with Mike on and that is that the CRE is concerned and should be concerned about all sections of our communities. We are concerned as much about white people who feel they're victims of discrimination as much as we are concerned about blacks or Asians. And we're trying to reposition the Commission in such a way that that becomes more and more transparent. We are concerned about all sections of our communities, not just Asians and blacks.
Kathryn Woolliscroft, UK: How do you see race relations progressing positively with the advancement of a truly real tolerant multicultural society?
I have to say that I'm very optimistic, I'm very positive about the future. If you look at Britain today, in spite of some of the difficulties that we've witnessed over the last six or eight months in this country, that Britain is a major leader across Europe in developing race equality strategies, we've had race legislation on statute books for well over 25 years which much of the rest of Europe in fact doesn't actually have. I'm extremely optimistic because I think that we've made some serious progress over the last 25-30-40 years since the [indistinct word] communities have been settled. That's not to say that we don't need to make more progress, clearly we have to and we've got recently produced new legislation on the statute book which will, I think, lead to further progress being made. I think that an important thing to note is that Britain is genuinely a multiracial multicultural society, that it is diverse, it celebrates that diversity, it acknowledges that diversity, it embraces that diversity and it accepts that all its citizens, whether they're Asians or blacks or whites, are making a serious contribution to the social and economic wellbeing of society.
What about this report, do you think it's going to help?
I think clearly there are four reports that have come out today and I think they do point to some deep-seated problems which exist in our midst. Problems of segregation, problems with poor education, poor housing, problems where young people, frankly whether they're white or Asian, simply have no career opportunities for the future and therefore their life chances are hugely restricted. There are some deep divisions within our society. And I think that what these reports point towards is the need for concerted action to eliminate some of those difficulties, to bring communities together, to get communities working together in an integrated way so that we can begin to develop a confidence across each other and across communities. So that we can actually create a more harmonious society in our midst.
Integrating into British culture - how?
Ms M Shylaja: We've been reminded that we need to integrate into the British culture. Can someone please tell me what this culture's all about, all I see around me is unfriendliness - young people having no regard for elders, an alarming rate of indulgence and booze and drugs in the name of socialising, sexual permissiveness and break-up of families. Your comments on this please?
Well I feel sorry that she feels like that because where I live in London I don't see that. Yes we have problems, yes we have problems with drugs and drunkenness and crime and all the things that she talks about but we have to get these things into their proper perspective. There are many, many positive things about Britain, there are many, many successful things about Britain. We've only got to look at British sport or British art or British culture, generally music, there are some many, many positive stories about multicultural Britain. And I think we must learn from each other, we can learn from each other. I think that the most positive thing about Britain is that it is multicultural so that we can share the benefits and secure an enrichment across all our society from the different cultures and traditions that make up modern Britain. That's what makes me feel very positive about the future. Yes there are problems but I think we need to get those problems into their right perspective.
Gurmit Singh, the Netherlands: What happens when an immigrant is torn between two completely opposing poles of modernity, i.e. the West and the traditional values, say, of the East. And as a result of this inner dilemma he faces he cannot decide which sphere to live in. What do you think?
I'm not sure about ships and the problems that ships cause but most certainly I know many, many young people, and as I've grown up in this country over the last 35-40 years, many, many young people, particularly from Asian backgrounds, who've gone through that sort of cultural crisis because they - many youngsters have been caught up in the midst of the pulls from the cultures of their parents and the pulls from the Western environment in which they operate. Now that is actually a reality and many, many youngsters are going through those difficulties and I feel sorry for those youngsters because they are actually being pulled in different ways. And indeed I, myself, as somebody who arrived in this country at the age of six, went through similar - similar cultural crises, if you like, of being pulled towards the culture of my parents and the Punjab, where I was actually born, and pulled in the other direction by the Western modern environment in which I lived. And the reality is that you eventually pull together and you begin to fuse cultures and you begin to secure the best of both worlds and that is how most certainly I know many young people are tackling these sorts of problems now.
Do you think it's more difficult now than it was say a few decades ago?
I think it is, it is, you know, and young people have in a sense greater distractions, greater pressures anyway now. I mean most certainly when I was a youngster many, many years ago we didn't have the same sorts of competing pressures and demands that young people have today. And on one level I feel sorry for young people but I do think that those young people also have the resilience and the strength to actually rise to the challenges that they face.
Sanjay Khosla, London: Do you favour desegregating schools and encouraging the need for less faith orientated educational establishments?
I fully agree and I think that there are some real problems in having schools which are mono-cultural, to use the hideous set of words. I think that they are something deeply wrong. I mean those schools may do very well in educational terms but I do think that it is vitally important that all our schools have a cross-mixture of the different communities that make up Britain. So that, for example, the schools that I read about in places like Oldham, where 17 primary schools are 90+% out of one ethnic group. I would actually say that there's something wrong with those schools and what we need to do, through changing the educational policies and practices, is to put in place steps which enable there to be a greater mixing. Now I think that those steps can be put in place. In relation to faith schools, well faith schools have been part of the educational establishment of this country for many hundreds of years and therefore overnight we're not likely to dismantle them. So therefore I think faith schools are here to stay. What we need to ensure is that faith schools are not exclusive and that faith schools should be invited, in the first instance, to welcome into the school population a certain percentage of people who are not of that faith and I believe that faith schools could rise to that challenge and therefore ensure a greater mixing.
Paul Rothwell: The simple fact is that you're not going to be able to make or persuade parents to send children to a faith-based school in which their children would be in the minority - racially and culturally.
I'm not sure that that actually is the case. I know many schools where parents are desperately trying to get their children into those schools, which are faith schools, and yet cannot do so either because they're already full up or alternatively they don't meet the religious criteria. Now I myself would be very happy to send any of my children to a Catholic school or a C of E school, if it was a good school. I mean the fundamental issue, as far as parents are concerned and I'm a parent with three very young children, the fundamental issue is the quality of education that young people get in their schools. If it's a high attaining school, if the school is doing well, if the environment in the school is positive, then I think parents will want to send them to schools irrespective of what faith those schools are.
How key is this issue of schooling?
I think schooling is fundamentally important. There are some real and very deep seated problems within our school system where sections of our schools [sic] leave school having done significantly less well. If you're Afro-Caribbean and male, if you're now Pakistani or Bangladeshi, or if you're a white working class youngster, you will leave school having done significantly less well when compared with the rest of the school population. And that will have a devastating impact in the longer-term life chances of those youngsters. So what we need to do is to begin to address the problems of under-achievement within our schools, we need to address the issues of exclusion because if you're Afro-Caribbean and male you're four, five, six times more likely to be excluded from within the school population. So those - there are some real fundamental issues around education that we need to tackle. Education is also, don't forget, the vehicle through which we exchange understanding and knowledge and I think that schools need to be the principle vehicles through which different cultures are actually understood and that's one of the other reasons why I want to see schools that are genuinely mixed, so that young people can share their experiences, their home experiences, their cultural experiences, their religious experiences, can genuinely share those, exchange them, so that we all are more informed about each other. That I think is actually part of the root cause of some of the difficulties that we face in this country - the absence of understanding of our views, of other people's views and other people's attitudes.
Mr Gurbux Singh thank you for taking all those very varied e-mails, thanks for joining us. And that's it, that's all from the BBC's interactive Forum for now, I'm Emma Simpson.
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“This is not a story about forgiveness,” Emily Thorne tells us in the opening scenes of the new series “Revenge.” Not exactly a surprising piece of narrative information given the show's title, but “Revenge” is a promising new addition to the fall schedule.
The story begins on the beach. A shot is fired. A man falls to the sand. The action cuts to Emily at her engagement party where she is celebrating her upcoming marriage to Daniel Grayson, son of Conrad and Victoria. The party is at the Grayson's beachfront mansion in the Hamptons. When the Grayson's daughter Charlotte escapes the party with her date for a nighttime swim, they are distracted by a man watching them. As they approach, he runs away and they discover the man who was shot. Charlotte's screams alert the party guests and one mystery begins.
The opening scenes of “Revenge” are a well-executed plot device in the tradition of the best prime time soap operas. It's a “Who shot J.R.?” moment with the wealthy Hampton set standing in for oil rich Texans. As the action leaves the present and takes us several months before the engagement and the shooting, it sets the stage for the primary story: Emily has returned with one clear goal: To destroy those responsible for ruining her father's life.
The targets of Emily's calculated plan revolve around the wealthy and influential Grayson family. Ruled by the formidable and perfectly groomed Victoria, the Grayson's don't wander too far from traditional character representations of entitlement and privilege. Victoria, as she tells the crowd at her son's engagement party, doesn't give her approval lightly. She is powerful and intimidating but displays a genuine affection for her children, particularly her son. In the pilot, she unleashes her charming wrath on someone she discovers has deeply betrayed her. Thanks to Madeline Stowe's layered performance, Victoria is not completely one-dimensional and it's hard not to secretly admire her small act of personal vengeance.
Emily's quiet slip back into the Hamptons starts with her renting her childhood home. It is here that we learn, through flashbacks, what happened to her father, as well as a few other secrets she is keeping in her quest to avenge his mistreatment. The pilot episode also introduces two men from Emily's past. One is a potential love interest while the other is a loose canon who threatens to derail her plans.
Emily VanCamp (“Brothers & Sisters,” “Everwood”) in a departure from her usual roles, plays Emily's dark need for revenge with a calm and clever detachment. When her war claims its first casualty, it's easy to root for her and it's this conflict that keeps the series interesting. Will all her victims deserve their fate? Is she a hero or a villain? Will her desire for vengeance destroy her in the process? The series' success depends on how well it maintains the tension underlying these questions. So far, I'm looking forward to the answers.
“Revenge” premieres on ABC on Sept. 21 at 10 p.m. EDT.
Melissa Crawley credits her love of all things small screen to her parents, who never used the line, "Or no TV!" as a punishment. Her book, “Mr. Sorkin Goes to Washington: Shaping the President on Television's 'The West Wing,’” was published in 2006. She has a PhD in media studies. To comment on Stay Tuned, email her at staytuned2011@hotmail.comor follow her on Twitter: @MelissaCrawley.
The “Fallout 4” section was key. We saw some gameplay footage that looks better than the shoddy trailer images. I will be happy as long as the graphics rest somewhere in between the footage shown during E3 and in the trailer.
The game will release Nov. 10, and it includes tons of insane building and crafting options. It was one of the expo’s most important game showcases.
We also learned a bit more about “Battlecry,” a competitive multiplayer game akin to “Team Fortress 2.” I played it at last year’s event, and it should be a fun game to run around in with your buddies for hour-long intervals.
The Xbox crew delivered its heaviest punches in the features department, not with its game announcements.
I am lukewarm on the backwards compatibility announcement. The option to play Xbox 360 games on the Xbox One would have been a lot more useful when the Xbox One first came out.
Support for PC mods and an early access program are huge coups. This will attract developers and players from the PC gaming realm, and it something the PlayStation 4 can not yet match.
Of the dozen or so games previewed, the “Gears of War 4” and “ReCore” trailers struck me the most. Gears of War is one of Microsoft’s strongest franchises, while “ReCore” has a great, Pixar-esque look and comes with a fabulous developer pedigree (Metroid, Mega Man).
The godfather of them all’s E3 press event left one lasting impression on me: There were puppets.
Other than that, I wasn’t too thrilled. The partnership between Nintendo’s Amiibo toy-to-game figures and the Skylanders crew was a major announcement. Both sets of toys will surely plaster children’s Christmas lists and torch parents’ wallets, but I don’t think it is a console-saving announcement.
“Star Fox Zero” should be a new great title. I like that its creators are taking a “back to basics” approach with it, and I think the clumsy Wii U gamepad may actually fit the look and feel of the game perfectly.
But we didn’t get a major Metroid announcement. In fact, we didn’t get any major Nintendo franchise announcements aside from “Star Fox Zero.” There were some fun games shown for Nintendo’s 3DS hand-held console, but the Wii U was left to die.
I can’t believe I am writing this, but Electronic Arts’ event was probably my favorite.
The largest third-party game publisher opened with a fantastically done announcement trailer for “Mass Effect: Andromeda,” arguably the biggest news of the entire conference. It was short, set to “Ghost Riders in the Sky,” and showed just enough Mass Effect deliciousness to whet my appetite.
The company followed it up with a solid “Star Wars: Battlefront” presentation, a decent “Need for Speed” announcement and the quirky little “Unravel,” which is apparently about a little dude made out of yarn. I dig it.
EA ended with a barrage of its many fine sports game franchises. The event wasn’t groundbreaking, but it was a strong showcase of everything the publishing giant has to offer us.
Sony’s press event should have opened with this disclaimer: If you don’t like one-player action or role-playing games, the door is that way. I like those things, so the Sony event gave me a few warm, fuzzy feelings.
The “Final Fantasy VII” high-definition remake was probably the major announcement. Remaking what is unquestionably one of the greatest RPGs ever made is a sure-fire way to curry favor with a good portion of gamers.
I was pleased to get a look at “Hitman,” as that has always been one of my favorite single-player franchises. The Hitman stable is far superior to Assassin’s Creed, which also got a bump during Sony’s talk.
“Horizon: Zero Dawn” could be a game to watch. Its announcement trailer showed a woman hunting some sort of robot dinosaur with a bow and arrow, which appeals to many of my interests.
I don’t get the “Shenmue 3” buzz, but maybe I am too young to understand that franchise.
The sequel to last year’s “South Park: The Stick of Truth” was a total shock. It took South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone about five years to finally work out the development, and both have told interviewers it would be a long time before they dove into a game again.
“Stick of Truth” would have been my game of the year if not for “The Banner Saga” by indie developer Stoic, which also showed off a sequel at E3. I am sure the superhero-themed “Fractured but Whole” will live up to its predecessor and its hilarious name.
We got another look at “The Division,” a promising apocalyptic role-playing game that has been brutalized by delays.
I am also interested in “Rainbow Six: Siege.” About a decade ago, the Rainbow Six franchise delivered some fun shooters that offered a tactical change of pace from the Call of Duty franchise.
Sony stole a bit of Square Enix’s thunder by showing off the “Final Fantasy VII” remake and “Hitman,” but the Japanese publisher still had a little more for us.
The most important part of the conference centered around “Kingdom Hearts III.” The franchise, which is essentially a youthful “Final Fantasy” mixed with Disney characters, is a dynamite role-playing option for gamers of all ages.
We got a look at more “Kingdom Hearts III” gameplay footage, which included a “Tangled” level. But we didn’t get a release date, which is pretty upsetting considering it was first revealed at E3 2013 and looks pretty finished to me.
Square Enix also showed off new Tomb Raider and Dues Ex footage, but I have never understood the appeal of those two franchises.
‘Personally the prospect of immortality does not excite me, but the prospect of being a materialistic idol for four years does,” says Marc Bolan, narrating his own documentary Marc Bolan: Cosmic Dancer (BBC4). Well, actually it’s actor Jamie Bamber talking, but he is using Bolan’s words, extracted from diaries and interviews. It’s a nice touch that gives a personal, almost confessional feel to the film.
Others chip in too. Paul Morley and Bob Harris are a given, because this is a BBC music doc on a Friday night. Plus Simon Napier-Bell and Tony Visconti, who worked with Bolan; Harry Feld, his brother; Toyah Willcox, who worshipped him; Gloria Jones who went out with him and had his son; Danielz, of tribute act T-Rextasy, who pretends to be him; and Mick O’Halloran, who carried and set up gear for him.
Roadie Mick is one of the most telling contributors. He remembers losing his rag with his friend and boss, telling him that success had made him “too effing big-headed for his own good”. Marc’s response was to give Mick an extra fiver a week.
Not immortal then, but an idol certainly, just as he wished. And if that’s not enough Marc Bolan for you, on the 40th anniversary of his death, there is another documentary on Sky Arts tonight, with many of the same contributors and also his son, Rolan Bolan.
The HAL police on Thursday arrested three frauds who cheated people of lakhs of rupees on the pretext of getting them jobs in reputed IT companies. The three have been identified as Harish Kumar, Anoop Kumar and Prem Kumar, all residents of Kadugodi.
Prime accused Harish Kumar used to run a job consultancy firm where he was the administrator, while Anoop Kumar was the chief operating officer and Prem Kumar was looking after finance.
The trio used to target job aspirants who applied through various portals and would contact them from their official email IDs from Bengaluru.
Aspirants from Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Bihar and West Bengal applied to their company. They claimed to offer training before job placements and used to collect lakhs of rupees from them.