Wipro Ltd will be allotted 10-12 acres of land in Coimbatore for setting up a centre for its business process outsourcing division.
IT major Wipro has proposed to establish a software economic zone in Kolkata, according to a top government official.
Wipro BPO, the business process outsourcing arm of soaps-to-IT services player Wipro Ltd, plans to expand its operations in China and the Philippines by opening two more centres in these countries by the end of this year.
A day after a woman employee of Wipro Technologies allegedly committed suicide, another software engineer of the firm was found dead at his residence here on Tuesday morning, police said.
Wipro Technologies, the global IT services division of Wipro Limited, has been rated as a top leader among offshore service providers by industry analysts IDC in a comprehensive study of 21 offshore players around the world.
Among the Sensex firms, Wipro, HCL Technologies, NTPC, Reliance Industries, Infosys, IndusInd Bank, Tech Mahindra and Tata Consultancy Services were the major laggards. IT stocks fell on profit-taking after rallying sharply in the past two sessions. Tata Steel, Titan, Maruti, Larsen & Toubro, ITC and JSW Steel were among the gainers.
With the appointment of Mahendra Kumar Sharma, former vice-chairman of Hindustan Unilever Ltd, as an independent director of Wipro, it is clear that the tech giant wants to strengthen its corporate governance practices.
Wipro chairman Azim Premji on Thursday called on Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Software major Wipro on Wednesday became the first entity to get the credit rating agency ICRA's highest category 'SVG1' rating for stakeholders value creation and governance practices.
In response, the New York Stock Exchange-listed firm said it has paid the tax and has sought a meeting with Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike for a discussion on the issue and has a 'strong enough' case in defence.
Software majors Infosys and Wipro, who are vying with each other for global information technology outsourcing contracts, have now joined hands to outsmart competitors and win domestic banking contracts.
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The project will improve business functionality at 7-Eleven through the deployment of a consolidated, real-time transactional and reporting infrastructure.
After disclosing late last year its decision banning Satyam Computer Services, the World Bank said earlier this month that Wipro and another Indian IT firm Megasoft have also been debarred from directly doing business with it under its corporate procurement programme. The Bank had disclosed the ban on Satyam on December 25, while debarment of Wipro and Megasoft was revealed on January 11.
Among the Sensex firms, Nestle rose the most by 4.66 per cent. NTPC rose by 2.16 per cent, Reliance Industries by 1.53 per cent, State Bank of India by 1.04 per cent and Hindustan Unilever by 1.03 per cent. ITC, Power Grid and Bajaj Finance were the major gainers. Wipro, Tata Consultancy Services, HCL Technologies, Tata Steel, Bajaj Finserv and Maruti were among the laggards.
Plans to increase headcount in the US, mainly in the banking and finance vertical.
Both firms have broken TCS' streak of industry-leading performance over the past few quarters by posting higher revenue and earnings growth this quarter.
Wipro is trying to strengthen its presence in the banking, financial services and insurance (BFSI) segment by increasing its revenue share on par with other leading Indian information technology (IT) service companies.
Wipro has already bought a 40 acre plot of land in Greater Noida and is looking for an additional 100 acres.
Based on enterprise service-oriented architecture (enterprise SOA), the programme leverages a pre-developed inventory of reusable form templates, components and services that reduce the cost of form development and deployment time, enabling SAP customers to gain an unprecedented return on their investments in enterprise systems.
T K Kurien believes the company is on the right track.
Wipro said on Monday that offers made by it to some of the campus recruits to join the company's BPO division is optional and in no way intended to pressure them to join the outsourcing section.
Wipro Ltd, after witnessing an increase in attrition and on the lack of good infrastructure that has resulted in increased commuting time for its employees, is now looking at growth beyond Bangalore.
Incumbent DMK MP T Sumathy alias Tamizhachi Thangapandian will face-off former Telangana Governor and BJP leader Tamilisai Soundararajan, while the the AIADMK has fielded ex-MP Dr J Jayavardhan, who won from here in 2014.
Wipro Technologies has received the 2003 Asian Most Admired Knowledge Enterprise (MAKE) award in a ceremony held in Seoul, Korea on Wednesday.
Wipro is planning to recruit 9,000 infotech professionals this year to meet manpower needs of its computer software services and business process outsourcing activities.\n\n\n\n
Domestic IT company Wipro Technologies and global networking company Cisco are eyeing $1 billion revenue from their strategic alliance for developing and delivering IT services solutions in the global market. The partnership aims at $1 billion revenue over the next three years, said John Chambers, chairman and CEO of the $35 billion California-based company
India's leading software company, Wipro Limited, on Wednesday said it was looking at setting up an offshore business process outsourcing centre in one of the Asia-Pacific countries.
HCL Technologies was the biggest gainer in the Sensex pack, rising 5.58 per cent, followed by Tata Consultancy Services and Infosys, State Bank of India, Tech Mahindra, Tata Steel, NTPC and Wipro. In contrast, Nestle, Bharti Airtel, Maruti and ITC were among the laggards.
According to the tender offer, about 20.456,524 shares - representing about 100 per cent of issued and outstanding shares of Infocrossing -were validly offered and subsequently acquired by Wipro when the offer expired on September 17.
A company with a size exceeding $1 billion finds it really hard to innovate.
Wipro, has set up a venture capital (VC) fund that will look at investing in early-to-middle stage technology start-ups globally.
Bangalore-based software giant has teamed up with eminent cartoonist Mario Miranda to create an advertising campaign that will light up its recruitment brand. The Goa-based cartoonist will educate potential recruits about Wipro through his characters.
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