Denying rumour that it might be using its office premises to compromise crucial Indian data by planting spyware, Chinese telecom equipment maker Huawei has maintained it was ready to cooperate with the government to have its facility inspected.
Infosys, India's second largest information technology services company, which had seen some top-level attrition last year, has both embarked on a leadership development programme and trying to ensure those targetted are contented with their compensation.
The Indian scientific and research community is keenly watching the battle between arch-rivals and global chipmakers, Intel and AMD, as they launch their high-end server processors which are the lifeblood of high-performance computers.
The project, in its entirety, is estimated to be about Rs 2,000 crore (Rs 20 billion).
When mid-size information technology (IT) services company MindTree acquired Aztecsoft in May 2008, many believed this would herald a trend in Indian IT, in terms of consolidation of small and mid-sized firms to enable them to viably compete with bigger ones.
S (Kris) Gopalakrishnan speaks on the outlook for Infosys and the sector.
Intel Capital, IBM, SAP Venture, Qualcomm Ventures increase India focus. July Systems, which developed a mobile broadband platform, has just received funding from Intel Capital.
Tiger Global Management, a New York-based investment company with close to $2 billion in assets under management, has shut its direct operations in India.
Indian IT companies are equally jubilant. That's because the Bill, which proposes to create Electronic Health Records (EHRs) for all Americans by 2014, is expected to open up a $20 billion market opportunity for Indian IT services firms like Infosys, Wipro, TCS, Firstsource and MindTree.
The recent case of embezzlement by a Wipro insider, believe industry experts and analysts, would have little impact on the company's business or image. However, they simultaneously caution that the issue yet again highlights the need for better measures on corporate governance and fraud.
The proportion of women to men falls radically after the mid-management level.
The increases are expected to be in the 8 to 12 per cent range, which do not compare too badly with the 13 to 15 per cent increments of pre-slowdown years such as 2007-08.
Professional services firm Ernst & Young has bagged the contract from the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) to become a consulting partner for the project.
New SMS-based service to be offered in association with India Post.
Wipro, the information technology to soaps conglomerate, says it is unlikely, at least for now, to file a formal complaint against the employee who recently siphoned off around $4 million (around Rs 18 crore) from the company's bank account by accessing a colleague's password.
This will also apply to those working temporarily on onsite projects.
The contract, according to the sources, include two different components - one for mainframe and IT infrastructure support and management.
Swaminathan D ('Swami' Swaminathan), the current COO and senior vice president of Infosys BPO, is now the CEO and MD.
Over 100 people, including 20 senior consultants and at least six VPs, have quit Infosys in 6 months.
The ripples of inflexible labour laws and active labour unions -- which affected information technology outsourcing by European countries, especially France and Germany -- are now being felt in the Nordic region, too. Recently, protests by the staff union forced Handelsbanken, a leading Swedish bank, to award the IT outsourcing contract to a local company after cancelling plans to award the contract to an Indian Tier-I vendor.