Content convergence is the new mantra for Pay TV service providers.
Clearly part of the grooming of Harvard-educated Rishad Premji, the group appointed the elder son of chairman Azim Premji as chief strategy officer for its flagship IT business.
The book that Vinita Bali, managing director of Britannia Industries Ltd, is currently reading couldn't be more appropriate: 'Too Big to Fail'. Although that bestseller by New York Times columnist Andrew Ross Sorkin tells the inside story of how Wall Street and Washington saved the financial system -- and themselves, its title aptly sums up Bali's own half-a-decade tenure at the Bangalore-based foods conglomerate.
The company is wooing smaller towns to create awareness for Etios to be launched in December.
nfosys Managing Director and CEO S (Kris) Gopalakrishnan speaks about the company to Business Standard.
Against the backdrop of a clampdown on visas by the US and growing antagonism towards foreign workers and immigrants in that country, Infosys Technologies, India's second-largest IT services firm, is mulling an 'extreme offshoring' model to help reduce its dependence on H1 and L1 visas.
Soon after Washington's decision to nearly double visa application fees as a part of its border security law, a bigger storm in the form of the Comprehensive Immigration Reforms Bill is gaining momentum in the US.
It's one tender that could usher in an era of partnership between domestic and global IT service providers, who compete fiercely for deals in India and abroad.
The resort, Barefoot, in which Gopinath owns close to 35 per cent, is spread over seven acres 'in exotic locale' and has 18 villas.
Chinese PC maker Lenovo is preparing the ground to occupy the top position in the enterprise PC market in India.
Indian IT companies, which had put ESOPs on the back burner during the global slowdown, are understood to be revisiting it.
It is in these segments that the attrition rate is higher. Wipro witnessed an attrition rate of around 17 per cent in the last quarter. Even as the market awaits its results for the June quarter, the company is not willing to take any chance with its employees.
Mahindra & Mahindra, the diversified business group with significant interest in automotive and information technology, is looking at setting up an aircraft financing arm in Australia
The Bengaluru-headquartered company, which derives close to 26 per cent of its revenues from Europe, mostly from the UK, believes this approach will help it increase its footprint in non-English speaking European countries.
Come August 2011, N R Narayana Murthy -- the chairman and chief mentor of India's second-largest IT services firm Infosys Technologies -- will sport the designation of chairman emeritus. It is a position which Infoscions and the senior management team have decided to confer on the person who co-founded the company with six others almost 29 years ago.
Peter Gartenberg, SAP India Managing Director tells about the changes taking place at SAP globally
UIDAI has split the overall project into small ones and handed them over to multiple vendors to speed up work.
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.