Mid-sized Indian IT companies are increasingly adopting the Foreign Currency Convertible Bonds route to raise funds.
The revenue growth rate for Tata Consultancy Services and Infosys Technologies has declined by over 20 percentage points to about 25 per cent from over 45 per cent in the quarter ended June 2006.
Enterprise rights management software, which controls access to any information being floated within an organisation, is set to see widespread use
Several Web 2.0 startups, however, have managed to get venture capital in the foreign markets and underatken studies to understand the market potential of Web 2.0 sites.
The company has entered into exclusive tie-ups with the US-based PopCap Games, Playfirst, and Russian game developer and distributor, Alawar, to provide content for casual (not the high-end ones) games.
TCS, NXP Semiconductors and Gemini Traze are already in the fray.
Game developers are increasingly eyeing Bollywood production houses to create content.
Nareshchandra Singh, an IT analyst with global research and analyst firm Gartner, takes only a few seconds to reach his office from home.
Future Group, the Rs 2,000-crore (Rs 20-billion) Indian retail giant, is set to invest close to Rs 400 crore (Rs 4 billion) over a period of three years to revamp its IT infrastructure.
In 2000, when Internet companies across the world were shutting shop, this start-up refused to join the crowd and continued with its operations despite the losses -- a move that defied conventional business logic at that time.
Pirates won't have it easy any more as the organised market gets savvy.
The Human Resources Ministry is seriously attempting to manufacture laptops at almost half the price of the cheapest mobile -$10 or just Rs 420.
Initial fears of Internet access charges rising by 6-12 per cent following the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India recommendations to impose an annual licence fee for Internet Service Providers appear to be unfounded.
The domestic market for business process outsourcing - which is growing at a compound annual growth rate of 50 per cent - is catching the attention of BPO companies that have traditionally catered to the international market.
A start-up by three friends with Angel investment of Rs 1.5 crore, NautankiTV has close to 40 per cent of its users from the US and UK.
The domestic business intelligence sector is fast outgrowing its infancy, thanks to an increase in mergers and acquisitions.
However, projections made over the last few years indicate a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 80-90 per cent. Research firm TPI believes this is "not easily achievable".
Paris-based IT major Capgemini is scouting for three more acquisitions amounting to over $1 billion (around Rs 4,300 crore or Rs 43 billion). It is looking at the business process outsourcing (BPO), product engineering and local consulting space.
The salaries of hardware engineers in the Indian information technology industry have nearly doubled over the last two years and yet the exodus to software continues, according to an Elixir Web Solutions survey.
Both Indian and MNC IT majors are hiring big time, expressing their confidence in the Indian economy and outsourcing/offshoring growth story.
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