Indian IT industry veterans believe lack of maturity from the political leadership may have helped people in the US to take advantages.
Reacting to the red brigade's call for unionisation in the outsourcing industry, IT association Nasscom on Monday said working conditions in the business process outsourcing sector do not warrant formation of unions.
Some of them include Spider G, NeuroTags, Genrobotic Innovations, AI Aeronautics, Synersense, Dealshare and NanoHealth. 'Highway to a Hundred Unicorns,' the Microsoft for startups initiative, works closely with local governments to strengthen the startup ecosystem in each state.
US President Barack Obama should care about creating jobs in both Bengaluru and Buffalo and not only the latter, former Nasscom chairman told an American federal body.
Bug bounty hunters or independent ethical hackers are certified cybersecurity professionals or security researchers who crawl the web, scanning the systems for gaps through which hackers can sneak in and alert the companies, says Shivani Shinde.
Other than Gujarat, Odisha and West Bengal, call centres would come up in Assam, Manipur, Tripura.
In the mid-tier space, clients with weak balance sheets are likely to ask for price revision apart from delay in payment.
Predicting that the Indian IT industry was likely to add two lakh employees this year, Nasscom president Kiran Karnik on Tuesday said the association was working on the image of BPO industry and would create a data base of people in the industry.
The Indian IT and IT enabled services exports from India are seeing a good traction and the rate of growth is expected to be between 30-35 per cent in 2005-06.
A 15 per cent corporate tax rate for services companies in SEZs, setting up a fund for deep-tech startups and establishing clusters to demonstrate design-to-manufacturing capabilities of tech firms were some of the key demands made by the IT sector at the pre-Budget consultation on Monday. The participants shared their views and suggestions regarding Big Data, incentives for encouraging setting up of data centres, fiscal incentives for data localisation, incentives for pushing digital penetration in rural areas, and corporate guarantee to startups for competing with other nations.
Infosys' commentary suggests its growth pangs are not yet over.
India is emerging as one of the most preferred destinations and the leader for outsourced product development, says Gowri Shankar Subramanian, CEO, Aspire systems.
They are asking TRAI to reject the plan in the interest of protecting the citizens' right to use Internet
Software industry body Nasscom expects the country's information technology (IT) services sector to grow 13-14 per cent in the current financial year and to touch $225 billion (Rs 13.22 lakh crore) by 2020.
Roshni, also a trained classical musician, came on the board of HCL Technologies in 2013 and was vice chairperson. Shiv Nadar would continue to be MD of the company with designation as chief strategy officer.
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The IT bellwether currently has about 28,000 employees in West Bengal in different facilities and it expects to recruit around 4,000 more in the current year.
Once implemented, Rishad Premji will be one of the youngest business leaders to don the role of non-executive chairman at a large cap Indian company.
IT sector has lots of hope from the Union Budget 2014-15.
Norms for e-commerce likely, arm's-length pricing set for change.
Notwithstanding the current Malaysian imbroglio involving Indian IT workers, India's software and services exports to that country stood at just Rs 70 crore in 2001-02.
Ratan Tata said he continued to feel the need to support young entrepreneurs who were keen to unleash the Indian tiger.
The World Bank would outsource over $10 million IT work to India in the next 12 months through its existing Indian partners, Nasscom
India doesn't have a data protection law or a dedicated law on cybersecurity. Also, there is no specialised law on privacy. Experts say this complicates the scenario for businesses as they continue to be liable for breach in client data even when employees work out of the home.
The bill introduced in the state of New Jersey proposes a ban on government outsourcing contracts to foreign countries.
The NASSCOM report said Indian tech industry contributed more than $375 million to the US Treasury between fiscal year 2011-2015
According to sources, Nadella will be visiting New Delhi on September 30 to take part in two events to be organised by Nasscom.
Schmidt had a closed-door meeting with four start-ups in Bangalore.
Indian IT companies like Tata Consultancy Services, Infosys, HCL Technologies and others have taken the buyback route to return some wealth to their shareholders, while potentially boosting their stock prices.
The $100-billion export-driven sector has been vocal on the need to move up the value chain with increased automation, offering services bundled with software products and platforms.
The aviation ministry is not in the business of regulating tariffs, says its president Aditya Ghosh.
