Software major Wipro's IT enabled services business subsidiary Spectramind has bagged a Business Process Outsourcing order from global giant Microsoft, a top company official said
The two men arrested by the Delhi police for raping a BPO employee confessed that they wanted to rob cattle, but landing up committing the crime, reports Sahim Salim.
From using expertise of an Indian Institute of Technology professor to enhance the blurry closed circuit television footages to tracking a tempo with a Hindi word starting with 'M' written on its side panes -- it was a virtually a wild goose chase for the Delhi police while cracking the gangrape of a business processing unit employee.
Demand for digital technologies and resumption of normal economic activities will drive sales for IT companies, and the sector will post a revenue growth of up to 9 per cent in 2021-22, a report said on Thursday. Rating agency Icra gave a "stable" outlook for the sector, whose size is pegged at over $180 billion by industry lobby Nasscom, including the business process outsourcing business. The IT services sector's revenues will rise between 7-9 per cent in rupee terms and between 5-8 per cent in dollar terms in 2021-22, it estimated.
US-based Spectrum Global Fund Administration, providing back-office operations to hedge funds in the US and the UK, is closing its facilities in India. The company had started its operations in India two years ago.
In the last couple of months, the IT and BPO space has seen a big uptick in M&A activities, with companies merging with other entities to become bigger players.
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Sundaram Business Services, a wholly owned subsidiary of Sundaram Finance, has picked up 74 per cent equity stake in the Chennai-based business process outsourcing firm Professional Management Consultants for an undisclosed amount.
Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam--now ranked among the top 20 offshoring locations, the report said.
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Neelakandhan Mooss, chief physician, at Thrissoor-based Ashtavaidyan Thaikattu Mooss Vaidyaratnam Oushadhasala, speaks about the treatment for IT pros.
The report further revealed that the BPO/call centre industry has dropped down several places, forfeiting its second position on the list to the manufacturing industry, which has shown promising growth.
After information technology, it's now the turn of Indian business process outsourcing services companies to harness China as a delivery location.
Notwithstanding the recent uproar over the UK data theft, a well-known US author has said that America is a huge beneficiary of outsourcing.
Joginder Sharma, who was a member of India's Twenty20 World Cup winning squad in 2007, was injured following a road accident near Noida, on Thursday.
IBM Daksh is looking for Customer Care Specialists (tech/ semi-tech support and customer service).
Capgemini SA, the parent company of the Capgemini Group, will pick up a 51 per cent stake in Unilever India Shared Services (Indigo) for an undisclosed sum.
Serial entrepreneur Tarun Uppal reflects upon the mistakes and the lessons learned along the way.
To lure the business process outsourcing and IT/ITeS industry, the Mayawati government in Uttar Pradesh has showered various sops. The realty sector, too, has been blessed with many relaxations.
India's Silicon Valley, Bangalore, has managed to retain its leadership for the fourth time.
The company already employs 1,000 at its base in Londonderry and 400 in Belfast. In May 2008, it had created 800 jobs, which was widely hailed in the region.
: Convergys India Services is recruiting Customer Care Officers and Technical Support Officers (MCP/ MCSE).
Addressing the growing need for security of business process outsourcing employees, Bangalore-based Proficio Geo Technologies has come up with PRO-TMS
Mercury Infocomm's product Auto Vigil comes as a boon to the millions of young girls and women employed in business process outsourcing industry.
CFC India Services, a subsidiary of Countrywide Financial Corporation, is recruiting Customer Service Associates.
Next India is recruiting Customer Support Executives and Voice and Accent Trainers.
EXL Service is looking for Customer Care Associates (voice).
Corporate India's hiring activity saw a decline in April, with the business process outsourcing and IT enabled services industry registering the sharpest drop of 22 per cent, a report by job portal said.
Companies will be offered incentives for employing more women.
Four Hinduja brothers -- Srichand, Gopichand, Prakash and Ashok -- had in 2014 signed on a document saying the assets held by one brother belong to all, and that each of them will appoint the others as their executors. But now family patriarch Srichand Hinduja, 84, and his daughter Vinoo want the letter to be declared of "no legal effect" and the family's assets be separated as per his wish of 2016.
An international call centre is recruiting Customer Care Specialists for their inbound and outbound processes.
Brainwave, a call centre training and placements company, is recruiting 400 Customer Care Executives and 250 Female Telecallers.
Next India is recruiting Customer Support Executives and Technical Support Executives.
Call centre markets of India and the Philippines are set to see further boom through 2009, a study says.
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