Hiranandnani's new venture is well-timed, but it will face heavy competition from both international majors and domestic peers like Adani Group.
The US is the biggest market for the outsourcing industry.
'When users sign up for free apps and services, they are giving up data. They fail to realise the impact of their data in the public domain, which is something that corporations have been monetising on for some time now.'
'We have close to 30 per cent share of the Indian public cloud market'
Stock market crash: TCS sheds $21 billion in market capitalisation, Infosys $7 billion and Wipro around $3 billion
IT stocks have dropped about 3 per cent in the days since the Donald Trump administration took first steps toward visa reform and all of India's highest-profile technology tycoons have seen their net worth eroded. Saritha Rai reports.
The iPhone SE will replace Apple's ageing iPhone 5s model.
All the major multinational PC vendors experienced double-digit growth in mobile PC shipments in the first quarter of 2011.
High-end devices become target of virus and malware writers.
iPhone sales in India were up by 56 per cent during the period.
While overall IT budgets were expected to decline by 3.1 per cent on an average.
The Ola Money and Uber tie-ups demonstrate how insurance companies, including even government-run ones, are forging partnerships with every possible service company to offer products.
Artificial Intelligence will create 2.3 million machine learning jobs by 2020.
Indian testing companies, however, are facing a host of challenges including lack of adequate talent and specialised certification programmes in testing to get youngsters into the profession. The estimated number of testers required in India is projected to be around 18,000 in the coming year, according to a Gartner report.
To begin with, there would be the immediate integration of various technology stacks. This would create more business for global consulting and IT services entities such as KPMG, PwC, EY, Accenture and IBM, among others. Indian service providers - Infosys, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), and Wipro, for instance - would also cash in.
Last year, there was almost 16 per cent increase in hiring by the Global Capability Centres in India.
The Indian market is driven by prepaid connections, which accounted for over 84 per cent in 2006. It is expected to reach 93 per cent by 2011.
Repeat business from existing clients is not coming easily and companies are still in the process of building digital capabilities
The budget of Indian IT companies is expected to rise by seven per cent in 2005, significantly higher than the global average of 2.5 per cent, IT research firm Gartner said.
Internet users in India is attracting cyber criminals, as these are first-timers, who can be duped easily
Spurred by the introduction of full mobility cellular services and competitive response from the GSM camp, the Indian cellular market is estimated to register a 96 per cent growth to reach 56 million connections by 2004-end.
Global IT research and advisory firm Gartner Inc estimates revenue from cellular operations in India would touch Rs 36,600 crore.
The once-powerful Japanese major is left with little to show in the face of sustained competition from rivals.
Apple is also expected to announce plans for a startup accelerator in India to work more closely with the Indian developer community that works on the company's iOS and OS X software platforms
With clients increasingly looking at cost optimisation by passing on the risks to the IT vendors and IT services players demanding longer tenure deals to hedge their risks, a mix of these two factors are giving rise to large deals coming up in the market with a lot of strings attached.
However, IT stocks fell on weak growth forecast by Gartner
With the world getting more and more instrumented with smart devices, global enterprises are increasingly looking at undertaking a 'digital transformation' journey to stay ahead in the race. Emerging technologies such as social, mobility, analytics and cloud have given birth to new business opportunities and forcing enterprises to finetune their IT buying decisions -- quite differently from what they used to do.
NITI Aayog recommendations cite the need for greater industry-academia collaboration to meet skill demand
Ratan Tata has acquired a stake in Chinese handset maker Xiaomi, the first investment by any Indian in the smartphone maker.
Websites that are not mobilefriendly will drop down in rankings
A large team led by Kumar Mangalam Birla has taken charge of the integration process.
More opportunity awaits in India, thanks to decent economic growth with a rising middle class that's just discovering the web through smartphones
The company launched eight products across price points under its new range of consumer laptops, targeting professionals, gamers and students
Sixteen major contracts worth nearly $14 billion to be renewed by June 2018 but uncertainty looms large.
RJio will further add bottomline pressures on the already struggling telcos that will ultimately be forced to consolidate
Did you know that India is among the top five countries in food processing?
The current focus on data to measure marketing success could herald the end of an era -- or the beginning of a hype cycle, says Ajit Balakrishnan.
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