Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Infosys Technologies and Wipro were eliminated from the selection process for the project on technical grounds. Another IT major, HCL Technologies, was also rejected. The size of the project is not yet known.
Polaris gets over 90 per cent of its revenue from exports. Till financial year 2009-10, the company did not actively think about a strategy to buy space in a special economic zone.
CanvasM, a joint venture between Tech Mahindra and Motorola, is planning to launch 6,000 new indigenously developed applications for mobile phones.
Players slash prices to leverage the popularity of IPL matches on the internet.
A number of public sector banks will have to stock up on core capital, if the Reserve Bank of India decides to ask banks to leave out hybrid instruments while computing Tier-I capital adequacy, as indicated by RBI last week.
Imagine this scenario. Pyarelal Shankar a grocery store owner in Haryana is not computer literate. Yet, he manages to regularly update his inventory online.
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.
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.
Housing finance companies (HFCs), which rely heavily on banks for funds, have said that loans taken by them should be exempted from the proposed base rate system.
The project involves building a network around a dozen secured centres, each priced at pound 250 mn.
Axis Bank's chief talks of her stress-busters and brushes over the 'Chanda-Shikha' stories.
India's second largest IT company, Infosys Technologies, for instance, has narrowed on the new areas to drive its growth.
Several cities see a fall of up to 36% in sales, even as Mumbai region continues to grow.
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.