NASDAQ-listed Rediff.com India Limited on Tuesday launched new service, group deals, named Rediff Deal Ho Jaye!
The common Indian is already under pressure from rising inflation, investments giving poor returns and lower salary hikes too!
Refining its inorganic growth strategy further after carrying out acquisitions in consulting and analytics areas down the years, Cognizant Technology Solutions is understood to be scouting for business process outsourcing firms specialising in insurance in the US and Europe.
Markets will remain closed today on account of voting for the general elections in Mumbai constituencies.
Nasdaq-listed Infosys has said it was the failure of the state government in fulfilling the agreed conditions that led to the delay in executing its 448-acre IT Special Economic Zone project in Hyderabad.
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Infosys Technologies Limited, a world leader in consulting and information technology services, will announce results for its third quarter ended December 31, 2005, on January 11
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In the past few days, many companies, including fashion e-tailer Nykaa, food delivery platform Zomato, logistics and delivery firm Delhivery, insurance discovery platform PolicyBazaar, eyewear retail chain Lenskart, and edtech and online tutoring firm Byju's, have openly spoken about their IPO plans.
A stake sale deal between Patni Computer Systems and iGate is on course, but has been delayed due to procedural issues.Sources involved in the deal said they include tax-related developments and offshore transaction fees.
However, the Carlyle-Advent consortium could revise its bid upwards, said two independent sources tracking the deal.
Online services major Rediff.com India Ltd has won a cybersquatting dispute against a Pakistani person, who was using an identical domain name and illegally incorporating the Indian firm's trademark.
While iGate leaps into the $1-billion club, the combined entity will have a larger offering, better pricing power and scope to improve margins. Nasdaq-listed software firm iGate's acquisition of Patni Computer Systems was received positively by the market. On a day when the Sensex was down 2.4 per cent, the Patni scrip closed 0.8 per cent higher at Rs 463.85.
Nasdaq-listed IT company Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp on Tuesday announced the acquisition of Pepperweed Advisors, the IT consulting services division of US-based Pepperweed Consulting, for an undisclosed sum.
India CMD Ramkumar Ramamoorthy clarified Cognizant would continue hiring, and that the earlier job-cut announcement was but a small one, considering the company had around 290,000 employees globally.
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US markets jumped on Monday, taking the S&P 500 to its highest in four months. The Dow added 1.3% to 10,754. Nasdaq jumped 1.7% to 2,356.
The combined assets of the top five - Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Infosys Technologies, Wipro, HCL Technologies and Tech Mahindra were down one per cent to Rs 27,7400 crore at the end of 2017-18, from Rs 28,0100 crore a year before.
Industry sources peg the IPO figure at $50-80 million (Rs 230-370 crore).
IT services followed by telecom are expected to lead the virtualisation wave considering their need for technology savings, Krishnan Thyagarajan managing director, India sub-continent, Quest Software, a NASDAQ-listed enterprise system management vendor, said. Quest's clients in India include Infosys, Wipro, Ranbaxy and Cummins.
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Though domestic IT majors like Infosys Technologies, Tata Consultancy Services and HCL Technologies painted a gloomy picture of the IT sector in the coming quarters, technology bellwether Cognizant Technology Solutions and Genpact, India's largest Business Process Outsourcing firm, not only posted better results but have also given decent guidance to the markets.
A R Rahman will be the second Indian artiste to perform at the UN General Assembly after M S Subbulakshmi.
The NSE Nifty gained 25 points at 5259. The market breadth was strong. Out of 2974 stocks traded on the BSE, there were 1920 advancing stocks as against 982 declines.
Nasdaq-listed Cognizant Technology Solutions, which did not complete the due diligence process for Satyam Computer Services, is understood to be back in the race to acquire the troubled software company.
The markets opened on bright note on Thursday morning after a holiday on Wednesday, however the joys were shortlived as the markets came tumbling down towards the close.
McKinsey, RBS postpone placements by three to six months
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The Sensex ended at 17,098, up 45 points. The broader-based Nifty shut at 5,116, up 15 points.
On the sidelines of 'Samvit 2009 -- The Leaders' Conclave' at IIM-Lucknow recently, Ajit Balakrishan tells Virendra Singh Rawat answered some issues that have dogged IIMs.
The Sensex finally ended at 16,053, down 231 points. The NSE Nifty finally settled at 4,751, down 76 points.
While the number of international MF schemes is increasing, so is the confusion for investors.
In My Name Is Khan, directed by Johar, SRK plays Rizwan Khan, a man with a form of autism that makes him a much misunderstood person. The 9/11 events indirectly affect millions of people across the globe, and Rizwan is one of them.
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NSE Nifty closed at 4,867, up 14 points.
Nasdaq-listed Rediff.com will offer its customers the facility to communicate in 22 different regional languages from January 2009, company officials said.
The NSE Nifty closed at 5235, up 25 points. The market breadth was strong. Out of 2969 stocks traded on the BSE, there were 1694 advancing stocks as against 1195 declines.
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Unfortunately, investors know of bubbles only when it bursts! So how should you protect yourself from a bubble? Before that let us see what a bubble is and how it is formed?
The US markets closed in green on the first trading day of 2010 ,on the back of a spate of deals, soaring commodities and strong manufacturing data.The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 1.5% at 10,584 and the Nasdaq Composite Index was up 1.7%. The NSE Nifty closed at 5,278, up 48 points.
