As a part of its Tox Tech campaign, Greenpeace in 2005 issued a list of demands on Wipro, including introduction of a take-back policy, recycling and a policy for phaseout of hazardous materials.
Infosys BPO Vice President Ramit Sethi has joined Wipro BPO as Senior Vice-President-Knowledge Services and Capital Markets.
Targeted at the north and east of India apart from the big metros, WCCL aims to position the brand in the premium segment, but at a discounted price than the existing players. The company also expects to corner a 10 per cent market share in the glycerin soap market in the first year.
Offer of backdoor employment in various MNCs were made.
The deals -- worth $50-200 million (Rs 300-1,000 crore) -- are across the healthcare, travel, telecom and manufacturing verticals.
'We are looking at the next target which is to be a $1 billion ARR firm in the next 4-5 years.'
Wipro Infotech on Tuesday announced its partnership with Israel-based RiT Technologies for marketing of latter's Intelligent Physical Layer Management Solutions in the country.
Wipro Infotech, Middle East and Asia Pacific the information technology arm of Wipro Limited, announced on Thursday a strategic alliance with the US based Sistina Software Inc.
India's information technology (IT) sector will witness subdued hiring in 2023-24 as macro uncertainties impact demand environment, with clients either taking a pause on spend or stopping discretionary spend, say human resource experts. To begin with, unlike earlier years, the three large IT players TCS, HCLTech, and Wipro have not provided any new hiring targets for the financial year. And Wipro has said that its hiring target will depend on the demand environment.
Infosys has received a tax demand of Rs 341 crore for assessment year 2020-21 from the Income Tax Department, the IT services company said on Monday adding it is evaluating filing an appeal against the said order. The Bengaluru-headquartered company said it is in the process of evaluating the impact of the order on its financial statements for the quarter and year ending March 31, 2024. Infosys also said it is evaluating filing an appeal against this order.
A court in Kanpur has issued a notice to Wipro chairman Azim Premji after the wife of one of the company's employees alleged her husband had left her because the firm paid him a 'dating allowance.'
'IT companies do not have a large presence there either in terms of market and team. So, the impact of the war will be minimal. But West Asia is an emerging economy.'
Software major Wipro Technologies and US-based HighJump Software announced a strategic alliance on Thursday to offer complete, integrated multi domain solutions in supply chain execution market worldwide.\n\n
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The Bangalore-based firm also announced changes in certain key positions in the controllership team, but did not reveal the amount of money involved in the fraud.
Wipro Technologies, the IT services business of Wipro, has been rated the top Indian outsourcing firm in the Global Outsourcing 100 Rankings released by the International Association of Outsourcing Professionals.
In the Sensex pack, HCLTech rose the maximum by 3.12 per cent, followed by ITC which gained 2.73 per cent and M&M went up 2.61 per cent. TCS climbed 2.44 per cent. Tech Mahindra, Wipro, L&T and Maruti were among the other major gainers.
Wipro Infotech, Oracle India and Mumbai-based media and entertainment technology group Media e2e have formed a media technology consortium
The company is unlikely to continue with the CEO-COO model
Wipro Infotech on Friday announced its largest IT outsourcing deal in India.
The Supreme Court on Friday stayed criminal proceedings against former chairman of Wipro, Azim Premji, and his wife on their plea seeking quashing of the summons issued by a Bengaluru trial court on a "frivolous"and "mischievous" complaint filed by an NGO alleging breach of trust and corruption in merger of three firms with a Premji group firm. A bench of Justices Sanjya Kishan Kaul, Dinesh Maheshwari and Hrishikesh Roy also issued notice to an NGO, Indian Awake for Transparency and others and sought their response. Senior advocates Mukul Rohatgi, A M Singhvi appearing for Premji and others said that the complaint was "mischievous" in nature.
Wipro said it is 'exploring all legal options at its disposal to seek redressal' against any such move by the authorities.
The country's third largest software firm said on Thursday that it will demerge non-IT businesses like Consumer Care & Lighting into a new company, a move which will allow it to focus exclusively on information technology.
Shortly after scrapping the proposed IT township project -- Vedic Village -- at Rajarhat near Kolkata, West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee said late on Wednesday that the two IT majors must be retained in the state, reports the Indian Express.
Almost all Indian IT companies would pay between $8,000 and $10,000 per H1B visa from April 1
Global IT giant, Wipro Technologies, will open a third delivery centre in China to cater to the growing needs of its multinational clients.
IT majors TCS, Wipro and Satyam have evinced interest to set up software development units in Punjab.
Wipro, which employs 22,000 people across Chennai, is the latest IT service provider to warn of the impact of the floods in a city
What is not so well-known, possibly because of the scale and size of its information technology business, is that Wipro is the third-largest Indian-owned fast-moving consumer goods company after Nirma and Dabur -- Wipro Consumer Care and Lighting, the FMCG and lighting products arm of the company, will likely end 2009-10 with sales revenue of Rs 2,500 crore (Rs 25 billion).
Total revenue rose to Rs 12,140 crore
Wipro has signed a definitive agreement to acquire mPower Inc, a Princeton, New Jersey-based company with a development centre in Chennai, and MPACT Technology Services, based in Chennai, for an all-cash consideration of $28 million.
Global Finance, a leading finance magazine, has ranked Wipro the "best company in the computer software sector in Asia" in its annual world's best companies survey.
Wipro's scrip jumped 2.97 per cent to Rs 468.50 on the NSE.
India's top technology companies will witness a tepid revenue expansion in the third quarter (October - December) of the current financial year (Q3FY24) - along expected lines - on the back of furloughs and no blockbuster deals, even as the momentum gained from Generative AI (GenAI) is likely to take centre stage. IT services and consulting firm Accenture's first quarter numbers in FY24 showed a significant pick up in GenAI spending. It signed new bookings to the tune of $450 million in this space, a surge from the $300 million signed in the whole of FY23.
