Silicon Valley-based billionaire and prominent venture capitalist Vinod Khosla on Friday condemned government's decision to ban internet-based taxi aggregator Uber following the alleged rape incident in Delhi recently.
Nasscom president Kiran Karnik on Wednesday suggested the government should allow establishment of private higher and technical educational institutions on the lines special economic zones to provide quality education in the country.
Indian IT industry veterans believe lack of maturity from the political leadership may have helped people in the US to take advantages.
Infosys' chief executive officer and managing director Vishal Sikka says despite a healthy guidance, he can't say if this would be 'industry leading'.
The total duration of the visa that we get is only 15 days and this hampers a lot of work if we are talking to a client in India, says Jehan Ara, President, Pakistan Software Houses Association.
The pace of job generation has slowed as IT firms look at automation to do testing
Ratan Tata said he continued to feel the need to support young entrepreneurs who were keen to unleash the Indian tiger.
Aadhaar architect becomes most visible face to oppose Facebook plan
The information technology (IT) industry has increased its contribution to the country's GDP from 1.2 per cent in 1997-98 to 5.2 per cent in 2006-07, according to a Nasscom-Deloitte study.
'We are on a whole different level of complexities and fundamental change is happening in the industry. There is a need for organisations to design themselves to deal with such complexities.'
Accenture, one of the leaders in global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company, on Wednesday launched a training academy, in collaboration with Xavier Labour Relations Institute, Jamshedpur.
Union Communications Minister, Dayanidhi Maran, wants India to accept market-driven technologies.
India continues to rank as the third top source of overall malicious activity including spam, malware, phishing hosts and bots
The deals -- worth $50-200 million (Rs 300-1,000 crore) -- are across the healthcare, travel, telecom and manufacturing verticals.
Companies will be offered incentives for employing more women.
What the industry needs is a degree of predictability about currency movement.
Information technology firms that announced a boycott of the city's annual IT exposition protesting poor infrastructure received support from National Association of Software and Service Companies
President A P J Abdul Kalam asked the Indian IT industry on Wednesday to focus more on high end products while projecting that the market for information, communications and technology would touch $200 billion by the year 2010.
China is promoting its information technology outsourcing sector as a rival to the market leader, India. The figures, however, paint a different story.
According to experts, while allegations against Indian IT firms of visa misuse are nothing new, this time the scrutiny could be much greater.
The seventh annual Nasscom ITES-BPO strategy summit commences in Bangalore on Tuesday.
Destination India is the buzzword, says TCS MD and CEO S Ramadorai
High attrition, poor infrastructure and lack of data protection laws could derail India's booming outsourcing industry, the CEO of Indian software giant Infosys Technologies said on Wednesday.
Stronger rupee likely to take a toll; Infosys results on April 13 to be keenly watched
The national association of software and service companies in India has sought partnership with chartered accountants in the areas of information security and data privacy.
Non-profit Code for India, which inspires techies to volunteer their time and talent to the developing world, on Thursday announced that parallel India-US hackathon will be held at the Google campuses in Bangalore and in Mountain View, California.
The adoption of Information Technology by the companies in India is expanding rapidly with domestic market expected to grow to $4.3 billion in 2005-06 from $3.5 billion in 2004-05, according to IT industry body Nasscom.
Telcos propose licence regime for apps like WhatsApp, Skype.
Software major Infosys Technologies said on Saturday that the passage of the law by the US Senate banning sub-contracting work to other countries, including India
Ambrish Sinha, CEO, MeritTrac Services, identifies 6 future-ready skills that a post-COVID-19 workplace will require.
Through these new hires and centres, Infosys will also focus on enhancing its play in new technology areas like artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, user experience, cloud and big data.
India faces huge shortage of software product developers who can think "out-of-the-box" ideas and concepts but the educational institutes are churning out engineers suited mainly for the IT services market, industry officials say.
Manpower shortage in India's high potential, high-growth ITES-BPO industry by 2009 is estimated to be 2.62 lakh people, officials said on Tuesday.
For 2015-16, the planned outlay for the department was Rs 2,568 crore.
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