Despite growing protection in the US, Microsoft says it will keep scouring for talent from its second-largest employee base.
The company has launched aggressive recruitment programmes overseas, a top official said.
Move fits into strategy to expand in Europe, add to consulting capability.
Information technology (IT) services major Infosys has said its increasing focus on the domestic market wouldn't erode the company's margins. Its strategy of selectively taking up projects that require the deployment of products and platforms would help the company maintain its margins, it added.
The Indian IT industry is in for a tougher visa regime in its biggest market, the US. Firms such as Infosys, TCS and Wipro that send thousands of techies on short-term business assignments to the US will now have to disclose personal details of these employees and names of the American companies they are assigned to.
The Karnataka government is actively considering the possibility of changing the location for a proposed steel plant of Posco in north-central Gadag district; instead offer the South Korean major an alternative land elsewhere in the state. The move comes after the farmers of Halligudi village stiffly opposed plans to acquire their "fertile" land ahead of starting work on the project.
French consulting-IT major to focus on specialised areas in energy, tax and telecom
The largest subsidiary of India's second largest IT services company reported a 400-basis points improvement in operating margins, to 22 per cent in 2011-12.
To focus on leadership grooming, corporate governance and brand repositioning
The machine tools industry is always the first to be affected in a slowing economy and the last to recover during a revival. However, bucking this trend for the first time, the Indian machine tool sector is poised to grow by over 15 per cent this year.
Philippines might have emerged as the new capital for call centre works, but the country still has a long way to go to match India in the overall business process outsourcing (BPO) segment not just in terms of size of the industry, but also in terms of range of services.
The IT budgets for 2012 may remain flat or even decline marginally, but the silver lining for the Indian IT services players is an increasing component of offshoring in the overall budget.
Microsoft's interactive self-service assets (client, people and technologies) are to be merged with 24/7 Customer, to be now known as 24/7 Inc.
Global IT major HP is understood to be in the last leg of lapping up the largest of the eight contracts under the India Post IT modernisation programme. The deal is estimated to be in excess of Rs 1,000 crore, making it one of the largest e-governance contracts in India.
They are realising unstructured data generated from social media and mobiles is vital for business decisions.
Aim is to drive accountability and bring the organisation closer to the client.
The corporate affairs ministry has mooted the idea.
The CEC gave its latest report to the Supreme Court on Thursday.
According to highly-placed sources in the company, Sanjay Purohit, vice-president and head of corporate planning and business assurance at Infosys, has been appointed as head of innovation.
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