Modi's hopeful rhetoric has not yet turned into concrete policy reform
Supply of IT professionals is likely to outstrip demand by 48,000 in 2008 with the total number of professionals growing to touch 11.68 lakh
Joseph Crowley, a visiting US Congressman, has said a New Jersey bill that seeks to ban outsourcing of technical jobs to non-US entities is an unhealthy legislation and such laws will not find favour with other American states.
The Euro 25 billion German software & service market offers very good opportunities for Indian companies keeping in view the software market growth by about ten per cent in Germany last year.\n\n\n\n
Indian IT industry could touch a total revenue of $15.5 billion in 2004 against $12 billion last year, according to National Association for Software and Service Companies.
The US move to reduce the number of H1B visas to 65,000 from 195,000 will affect the Indian information technology industry in the long run, Kiran Karnik
Gupta, who has also been associated with the UN in other capacities, succeeds John Chalsty who stepped down after a two-year term.
The rising value of rupee against the US dollar is likely to make a two to three per cent dent in export earnings of Indian software companies in the first half of the current fiscal.
The National Association of Manufacturers is launching digital and print advertisements in New York and Washington, in major publications like POLITICO, Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Financial Times, Roll Call and The Hill.
National Association of Software and Services Companies has signed a pact with Nasdaq, electronic stock exchange in US, to assist Indian companies to raise capital and get listed in American capital markets.
Tata Consultancy Services has been ranked as the top IT software and services exporter in the country by National Association of Software and Service Companies.
Takes a knock after RBS changes plan on Williams & Glyn; contract loss to impact 3,000 Infy staffers
Oracle is set to recruit about 300 IT professionals in India by this year-end, Keith Budge, regional managing director, South Asia, Oracle said on Monday.
Trai has invited comments till January 7 on its paper on differential data pricing.
The linking of Aadhaar number with mobile SIM cards would enable the subscribers to use a host of services, including financial transactions.
Nasscom estimates say that 2.4 million jobs would to be created for IT personnel by the end of the Tenth Five-Year Plan.
As the United States plans to reduce the number of H1-B visas to 65,000 from 195,000, India's apex body National Association of Software and Service Companies sought to cap it between 120,000 and 130,000
FIFA presidential candidate Luis Figo will hope to convince delegates at this week's Asian Football Confederation Congress that a vote for him would boost the region's chances of more places in future World Cup finals.
At the end of Q1, Infosys had 1,79,523 employees.
The National Association of Software and service companies demanded on Wednesday that the tax incentives under section 10 (A) and 10 (B) of the Income Tax Act should continue till 2010, as committed by the government earlier.
However, the IT industry body is confident that software exports will touch the $50 billion mark by 2008, as predicted earlier.
India's software and services exports for the 2002-03 fiscal would be lower than the projected growth rate of 30 per cent as a result of the appreciation of the Indian rupee, National Association of Software and Service Companies
FIFA has approved five candidates for its February presidential election amid the worst crisis in its history, after barring Liberia's Musa Bility on integrity grounds and leaving out UEFA chief Michel Platini while he remains under suspension.
India added 200 people to its booming infotech-enabled services sector every working day of 2002. As an average mid-sized call centre employs around 200 people, this amounts to a call centre mushrooming every day of the year in the country.\n\n\n\n
Scandal-plagued FIFA may have avoided its current problems if Russia and Qatar had not been chosen as hosts of the next two World Cups, President Sepp Blatter said on Friday.
Delegation visit ahead of patent law report.