While recruitment is falling, the capabilities needed to land an IT job are stiffening.
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Tata remains India's powerful brand with its value ring over $15 billion for the first time.
The companies experienced a drop of 5,436 approved petitions (37 per cent) in 2016 as compared to previous year, a report by the National Foundation for American Policy, a Washington-based non-profit think-tank, said.
Benchmark share indices ended flat amid lack of investor participation even as gains in IT majors ahead of their second quarter earnings helped capped downside.
Of the 3.9 million the sector employs, HR experts say at least 100,000 are likely to lose their jobs by the end of this financial year. Ayan Pramanik and Raghu Krishnan report.
On his three-day trip, the Microsoft CEO will meet governments and businesses to get them to use the company's platforms.
The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, the federal agency which receives and determines the successful applications for H-1B visas, said yesterday that it received 199,000 H-1B applications for the 2018 fiscal year.
Half of the people earning between Rs 30 lakh and Rs 70 lakh will lose their jobs in next 10 years.
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A number of Xooglers are employing lessons and practices learnt during their stint at Google to branch out into innovative ventures.
For the new millennium generation, slowly and at an accelerating pace, it is attractive to harbour a start-up ambition, says R Gopalakrishnan.
TCS moved into new markets like France, Japan thanks to acquisitions.
But Indian information technology workers might do better without the companies that held them back, says Mihir S Sharma.
Analysts refuse to read too much into the early birds numbers.
Expert staff in the line of fire in the tech sector. Analysts attribute these job losses to a slowdown in growth, automation of lower-end work.
Ajit Mishra, vice president, Research, Religare Broking, answers your queries.
The 30-share Sensex gained 271 points to end at 28,805 and the 50-share Nifty ended up 84 points at 8,712.
'India missed the software products revolution (and now is in danger of missing the platform revolution), complacent that we are the software experts of the world based on IT services prowess,' points out Rajeev Srinivasan.
The New Year, like 2014, will see brisk hiring. But, specialisation and strong domain skills will decide who gets hired.
About 76,000 H-1B visas were issued to people in computer occupations in 2014.
'The biggest struggles are in the human mind.'
The challenge before TCS is to be totally at home with the IPR regime of developed economies.
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The US president's stance on immigration could lead to a change in H1B visa rules.
In one of the biggest deals in the outsourced product development (OPD) market, audio and infotainment systems maker Harman International Industries will buy Indian-born serial entrepreneur Romesh Wadhwani's Symphony Teleca for $780 million (about Rs 4,800 crore at Friday's exchange rate of 61.4).
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Some big ones hoard cash unduly and others borrow to keep up payments to shareholders
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Amid Trump's expected action against employment visas, India's bellwether IT firms reveal they have been preparing for this eventuality for years.
The December quarter, generally a soft one for India's IT sector due to holidays and furloughs in certain sectors, is expected to be further affected because of currency volatility.
India has made a remarkable journey from a top-down system of economic decision-making to one that unleashed our entrepreneurial spirits but the next big jump lies in enhancing the quality of our tale.
NPCI has launched several consumer friendly systems including one that allows users to transfer money to people over mobile phones across India.
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu, who was instrumental in developing Hyderabad as a key information technology services destination in the country, is now embarking upon a mission to establish the state as an electronics manufacturing hub.
Firm to prune domestic costs through initiatives such as voluntary separation
NITI Aayog recommendations cite the need for greater industry-academia collaboration to meet skill demand
A new motivation needs to spread through the existing ranks to upskill and reskill themselves in the 55 new job roles for digital, says Ganesh Natarajan.
ICICI Bank was the top gainer after stable rating for its senior unsecured bonds by S&P Global Ratings.
The market players are expected to react to the better than expected factory output data for the month of August, which revealed that the industrial production grew by 6.4%.
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