Bangalore-based information technology services firm MindTree has set up an ambitious target of becoming a $1-billion (around Rs 4,600-crore) company over the next five years.
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 plethora of new pricing schemes from telecom companies, like 'one paisa per second' billing, has squeezed the margins of their business process outsourcing partners.
The proportion of women to men falls radically after the mid-management level.
The land taken by Tata Motors at Singur for the erstwhile Nano car factory, and by the many companies who invested there to be vendors to the project, isn't set to change hands anytime soon.Tata and the vendors both say they plan to hold on to the lease titles, even as Trinamool Congress chief and Union railway minister Mamata Banerjee and the West Bengal government continue with their political posturing over a plan for a rail coach factory at the location.
Professional services firm Ernst & Young bagged the contract from UIDAI to become consulting partner for the project.
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.
The project involves building a network around a dozen secured centres, each priced at pound 250 mn.
The Bengal intelligentsia that stood by Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Mamata Banerjee is now divided on how to resolve the fracas at Lalgarh -- a generic name that represents the Naxal-stricken tribal heartland of West Bengal.
India's second largest IT company, Infosys Technologies, for instance, has narrowed on the new areas to drive its growth.
National Association of Software and Service Companies had a humble beginning.
The sector may not touch the 30-40 per cent growth rates it witnessed before the slowdown, but an register above 20 per cent growth as it nears calendar year 2011, says Partha Iyengar, regional research head and Vice President, Gartner India.
Once confined to secret chambers, hackers now operate even at the behest of nations - all with the stealth shown by the Greeks to destroy Troy with the Trojan horse.
Firstsource was perhaps the first BPO that set shop in the US city of Buffalo in 2004 with 287 employees.
Bhargava along with Harsha Raghavan, the former India head of Candover Investments, have formed Steer Capital.
"The general benchmark that we are getting to hear is in the range of 5-15 per cent. Clearly, the 30-40 per cent hike days are behind us. Along with the slowdown in the US markets, there is a general mismatch in demand and supply. I think firms are being cautious before announcing huge hikes," says Shiv Aggarwal, CEO of ABC Consultants.
The 'First Status Report on Technology Business Incubation' in India also stated that 20 to 30 per cent of incubated companies make it big.
ITC's investment arm Russell Credit has raised its stake in Hotel Leelaventure to 7.37 per cent --an increase of 2.26 percentage points. The promoters of Mumbai-based Leela group, meanwhile, said they were not interested in tying the knot with ITC as a strategic partner in the growing hotels business.
The Centre has stopped allocating coal blocks to state governments till the Mines and Mineral (Development & Regulation) Act is implemented with the amendments.
Day Zero was created when demand for IIM graduates had peaked and the institutes had to resort to creative mathematics to accommodate big recruiters without offending the existing ones. Falling job market has forced the B-schools to review the strategy, including placement fee revision.
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