Tiger Woods stayed on course for an eighth title in nine starts worldwide in Thursday's second round at the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship as second seed Phil Mickelson was knocked out. World number one Woods sealed a comfortable 3&2 win over fellow American Arron Oberholser but left-hander Mickelson was beaten 2&1 by 31st-seeded Stuart Appleby of Australia in a high-quality encounter.
Tiger Woods beat fellow American J.B. Holmes one up in the opening round at the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship.
Asia-Pacific has been the only region to show growth in the business process outsourcing (BPO) market in the first half of 2007.
It's advantage for Indian companies like Infosys, Wipro and Tata Consultancy Services on the country's information technology services arena over their global peers including the giants like IBM and Accenture
Global IT companies will add around 1.08 lakh employees in India by 2010, by increasing the headcount to 2.73 lakh. This would be a 65.25 per cent increase from the 1.65 lakh employed by the end of 2007.
Today, however, the major six IT MNCs alone -- IBM, Accenture, Capgemini, EDS, HP and ACS -- account for over 9 per cent of the Indian IT-BPO workforce. Overall, MNCs in India account for an estimated 14-15 per cent of the Indian IT workforce.
Tata Consultancy Services has retained its position as the number one software services exporter (excluding ITeS and BPO) followed by Infosys and Wipro in the Nasscom's Top 20 software exporter list.
Infosys Technologies has been inducted into the Global Most Admired Knowledge Enterprises (MAKE) Hall of Fame.
However, a proposal to offer stock options to its 34,000 employees may fructify ahead of the IPO and a concept paper for this purpose has already been submitted to civil aviation ministry, he said. The two airlines, Air India and Indian, were merged in July-August this year and 12-18-months for full integration would mean that an IPO would not take place before mid-2009, Thulasidas hinted.
Both Indian and MNC IT majors are hiring big time, expressing their confidence in the Indian economy and outsourcing/offshoring growth story.
It may have got off to a slow start, but if all goes according to plan, Bhubaneswar will soon share a successful realty growth story with its residents.
Genpact has become the leading ITeS-BPO company with 19,700 employees, according to the just-released Nasscom and Dun & Bradstreet
The proposed merger of state-owned carriers Air-India and Indian is expected to be completed in the current financial year, Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel said on Monday.
Many groups, comprising professionals, both men and women, from companies like Wipro, Infosys, Accenture, AdventNet, Xerago, arrived in Nagapattinam on Friday night.
Tiger Woods came close to pulling off a Houdini-like escape against Australia's Nick O'Hern before his run of seven consecutive PGA Tour titles ended at the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship Friday.
Arjun Atwal fired a three-under 67 in the first round of the Mayakoba Golf Classic in Mexico to lie 14th.
Global majors like Accenture, EDS and IBM as well as major Indian IT vendors have been shortlisted by the public sector BSNL for second phase of its convergent billing system.
Global banking major ABN Amro has signed a Euro 1.8 billion ($2.22 billion) contract with five IT vendors: Tata Consultancy Services, Infosys, Patni Computers, IBM, and Accenture.
Delhi and neighbouring Noida in Uttar Pradesh, too, are studying Gurgaon's no-car Tuesday model.
India's dominance in IT services offshoring market would be threatened if companies do not diversify their offerings and delivery bases, according to analysts.
Workplace mentoring helps young professionals understand their work, encourages them to perform more effectively and gives the motivation to do better work, says Ambrish Sinha.
Wipro continues to retain the top position with a disclosure score of 98/100.
The ace golfer went down to American Stewart Cink in the opening round of the WGC-Accenture Match Play.
'AI will be bigger than the advent of the Internet or the harnessing of electricity.' 'India must embrace it with all its might,' says NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant.
The company hires Accenture for financial re-engineering, including slashing of debt ratios; changes to be visible soon
The pace of job generation has slowed as IT firms look at automation to do testing
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