'Lakhs of engineers graduate every year in India and the IT industry used to be the primary recruiter. That is going to end.'
LCD displays could be produced in India in the near future.
Intel Capital, IBM, SAP Venture, Qualcomm Ventures increase India focus. July Systems, which developed a mobile broadband platform, has just received funding from Intel Capital.
IBM, HP and HCL, have evinced interest in Sebi's proposal to upgrade toolsused for detecting frauds.
After Research In Motion (owners of BlackBerry), the home ministry will now turn the screws on Microsoft, Google, IBM and Oracle. These companies provide technology and services for the virtual private networks (VPNs) run by various operators in India. The government will ask them to conform to regulation that allows intelligence agencies to lawfully intercept data. Failure to do so could result in the termination of VPN services by operators using their technology.
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Some experts believe that building new cities may not be the answer to India's swelling urban population.
India has consistently asked China to open up its market for IT and pharmaceuticals.
Europe learning to live with offshoring, but Indian firms slow in riding the shift.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday gifted famous Indian tea to the captains of 11 large American corporations.
Domestic information technology services majors Tata Consultancy Services, Wipro Technologies and Tech Mahindra and global players like IBM and Japan-based NEC are among the 10 shortlisted companies for the Nandan Nilekani-headed Unique Identification Authority of India biometrics job.
Cochin Shipyard, BASF India, Ingersoll Rand, Eicher Motors, Federal Bank, and Timken India are some of the firms where voting could have got affected, sources said.
In the US, Zoho gets close to 80 per cent of its revenue from small companies, while the remaining comes from large ones.
The Chinese billionaire and founder of Alibaba is said to be planning a significant investment in business to business e-tailing as well as payment services and logistics companies.
As part of their special responsibilities, Information Technology industry in India is slowly opening its eyes towards the visually challenged by offering them jobs, training and even taking up infrastructural modifications to accommodate them.
Dept to focus on real estate, infra, mining and manufacturing to detect evasion.
But MNCs like IBM, Accenture, CSC and HP likely to get affected more.
Tech Mahindra on Monday pipped IT giants Wipro and IBM to bag a Rs 2,000 crore (Rs 20 billion) outsourcing deal spread over 10 years from new telecom player Etisalat DB, which is in the process starting mobile services in India.
Professional services firm Ernst & Young bagged the contract from UIDAI to become consulting partner for the project.
Global management recognised India's potential.
Though a spokesperson of Yahoo! India refused to comment on the development, highly-placed sources within the company claimed that it was a routine "trimming process" and more "poor performers" would be sacked.
Fresh suitors have emerged, and a cleanup is proceeding under a board appointed by the government. But the fraud leaves a cloud over Indian outsourcing.
Top five vendors captured more than 50% of the total contract value.
NITI Aayog had been asking for Rs 7,500 crore for three years to set up an AI framework.
India's second-largest IT services firm, Infosys Technologies, has set up a separate unit within its business process outsourcing arm (Infosys BPO) to concentrate solely on the domestic BPO market.
"We sponsor faculty awards, sabbatical grants, student fellowships, workshops and internships," said IBM India Research Lab Director Dr Daniel Dias.
If the deal goes through, this would be the second largest deal for Wipro in the telecom space. Earlier in April, the IT major bagged a Rs 2,500-crore (Rs 25 billion) contract from another new operator, Unitech Wireless. Importantly, Wipro will be pipping seven other IT vendors, including IBM and Tech Mahindra, who were also in discussions with Etisalat, according to sources.
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.
Lenovo, the Chinese giant which acquired IBM's PC business a year ago, is aggressively positioning its ThinkPad brand of notebook products for the small and medium business customers in India.
Information technology firms appear to have lost their appeal at the Indian Institutes of Technology. Campus recruitment figures by major Indian and foreign IT firms have dipped this year, raising further concerns of an industry slowdown.
With traffic jams and other commuting related issues becoming the biggest excuse for employees reporting late to work, companies seem to have found a middle path for solving this problem by asking their workers to work from home.
'India is the number one IT destination in the world as we have the largest number of IT professionals in the world.'
A study says shortage of skilled workers, inferior quality and inadequate highway infrastructure can defeat Indian carmakers.
52 percent of Indian CEOs feel that their organisations are satisfactorily integrated compared with global average of 45 percent.
India is Facebook's largest market with 250 million active monthly users. Along with Google, it has a 70 per cent share in the Rs 1,000 crore domestic digital ad market.
The Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode, invites industry delegates and management students to attend its annual IT Management seminar, AIMS 2006.
Wipro, HCL in race for Sebi's fraud detection system upgrade,
Valued at Euro 35 billion, Nokia is the world's fifth most valuable brand, after Coca Cola, Microsoft, IBM and General Electric. With annual turnover at 3.6 billion euro, India contributed nearly seven per cent to Nokia's total global revenues of 51 billion euro in 2007. Nokia has invested $ 210 million for setting up a manufacturing facility in Tamil Nadu and the Indian facility is 1 of the best among 9 Nokia factories. It has estimated 100mn new phone subscribers in India.
Modi announced a USD 14-million grant for community development projects in the Caricom and another USD 150 million line of credit for solar, renewable energy and climate- change related projects, a statement released by the Ministry of External Affairs said.
The initial focus of the hub will be to formulate marketing strategies and create marketing deliverables for print and online.
