For the financial year 2013, the industry will hire around 200,000 of which 100,000 students have already received offer letters. The industry would end FY12 by hiring 230,000.
Modest growth projections hits IT sector.
At a recent HR professional meet in the city, hiring managers and employers from leading firms in the country addressed the issue of growing unemployment in the country and discussed plausible solutions to solve the issue.
H-1B visa is a non-immigrant visa, which allows US employers to temporarily employ foreign workers in speciality occupations
The rules, the first ever for software applications in the country, were recently issued by the patent office and mandate each new software to be 'machine-specific' and packaged with 'new hardware' to qualify for a licence.
The catch is the need for a supportive framework in place that allows free and fair use of such technology.
India continues to rank as the third top source of overall malicious activity including spam, malware, phishing hosts and bots
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The industry has registered a 29-fold increase in patents over 2005-2008.
By 2022, the entire job landscape would undergo drastic change.
Driven by steady recovery in demand for technology services, the Indian IT industry is expected to hire about 2.5 lakh people during this fiscal, software representative body Nasscom said.
Infosys is on a growth path post a dull Q4.
Tata Trusts is one of India's oldest, non-sectarian philanthropic organisations involved in areas of community development.
Tepid growth in verticals like banking and finance, healthcare, retail and automotive will drag overall IT spends in the current year, reports Debasis Mohapatra.
Thanks to technological support provided by BlinkIN, a Bengaluru-based intelligent visual-assistance company, engineers in Wuhan were able to remotely install air ventilation systems in two hospitals in Wuhan, the epicentre of the coronavirus pandemic, reports Peerzada Abrar.
The Indian IT industry has consistently protested the anti-outsourcing rhetoric of American politicians.
IBM India won the award in 'Best IT Services and Products Company' category and IBM Daksh in 'Best BPO Company'.
Nasscom, the information technology and BPO industry body, on Monday favoured a flexible work atmosphere for women engaged in raising their family to curb dropout rates and boost their numbers in mid-level and senior management positions in companies.
National Association of Software & Services Companies president Som Mittal said that growth has come back to India's IT and ITeS industry and 'the growth is going to be very different from the growth that we had in the past'.
Browbeaten by recession and anxiety about mounting protectionism in key markets have led Indian information technology (IT) companies to extend their reach in the countries of Africa, the West Asia and Asia Pacific.
According to Grant Thornton's January data, IT & ITeS tracked the highest in terms of value, with the industry investing $1.2 billion in M&A over 12 deals.
The IT slowdown directly threatens the well being of other industries as well as India's IT cities. This impact has not necessarily been factored in, yet.
'How is this rush to decay to be halted before Indian universities become the laughing stock of the world, the (few) good ones unfairly tarred by the misdeeds of the worst of the lot?'
Ginni Rometty, who is on Donald Trump's advisory committee, discusses the importance of an open workforce, work visas, and why India is a microcosm of all of IBM.
It is difficult to bracket Cactus Communications into any industry. Founded by a Wharton graduate in Computer Science, Finance and Accounting and his Mumbai-educated brother with a degree in Commerce, Cactus is rather an industry unto itself.
Nasscom recently released its ranking of the top 20 IT-BPO organisations in the country that accounted for over 40 percent of the total employees in this sector.
India on Friday launched an aggressive campaign to showcase its IT prowess in China to woo local companies in order to bridge the trade imbalance between the two nations.
Kapil Sibal says there is a need to look at IT differently and not just as a cash cow.
The proportion of women to men falls radically after the mid-management level.
Companies will be offered incentives for employing more women.
"We are looking for acquisitions," Infosys chief executive officer and managing director Kris Gopalakrishnan told reporters in Mumbai on the sidelines of the Nasscom India Leadership Forum on Thursday.
Singh said his evangelising zeal had taught businesses to create new markets and made India a hub for innovation.
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The guidance is expected to spell out what constitutes specialised skill
BPOs located in rural areas and tier 2 and 3 cities are expected to drive the growth of the Indian BPO sector in coming years, experts said on Wednesday.
In a first-of-its-kind initiative in the country, the Mumbai Police has started tracking public views and sentiments on social media platforms to step-up its preparedness in handling sensitive issues and protests.
Paul Hermelin, group chief executive officer of Europe's largest IT services firm, Capgemini, is one of the earliest proponents of the offshoring model.
The IT-BPO industry in India has achieved impressive growth rates over the past decade and stood at $71.6 billion in 2009, said the report prepared by KPMG and Asian-Oceanian Computing Industry Organisation.
Wipro, has set up a venture capital (VC) fund that will look at investing in early-to-middle stage technology start-ups globally.
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