Building front-end and stitching it with back-end is a task that IT firms are learning the hard way, finds Raghu Krishnan.
Infosys CEO Salil Parekh, has praised the company's founders for building an "incredible organisation", and exuded confidence that the firm which "has always been solid" will "continue with that stability." Parekh - who steered the firm to stability after a bitter spat between founders and then-management a few years back - believes that Infosys is "well positioned" to leverage tech-led growth opportunities over the next several years. Parekh took over at the helm in January 2018, after a standoff between board and founders, including NR Narayana Murthy, over issues such as governance, led to the exit of then-CEO Vishal Sikka.
The British government has been under pressure to help a sale process go through after Tata said it would sell its British business.
Some feel that Tata Steel has put these assets on the block only after exhausting all the options.
The Indian companies, however, invested a much lower $1.59 billion in overseas markets in the previous month May 2014.
The top four Indian IT firms have cash reserves of nearly $15 billion with TCS alone holding $5.9 billion in reserves, followed by Infosys with $3.6 billion, and Wipro with $3.4 billion. HCL Technologies has cash reserves of $1.75 billion.
Famous and long believed to be trusted Indian brands have wilted against foreign brands, says Mohan Guruswamy.
Top Indian IT services companies - TCS, Infosys, Wipro and HCL Tech - have said that they would continue to hire freshers through campus interviews, though lateral hiring will be mostly on exception basis.
The Madras High Court has restrained software major TCS from retrenching its analyst who has been issued termination order by the company.
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The nomination of cluster heads for defence, infrastructure and finance business is awaited.
The 33-year-old from Mumbai was reunited with his family after he returned to India through the Attari-Wagah border on Tuesday evening.
TCS is hiring from over a hundred engineering campuses, MBA graduates from top B-schools in the US
A chess buff, Neemuchwala enjoys volunteering, travelling, Indian music, reading fiction, and golf.
India's software industry mounts two-pronged campaign to tackle Trump administration. Ayan Pramanik & Karan Choudhury report.
This measure will ensure that the price of a scrip cannot move upward or downward beyond a limit set for the day.
The Tata empire turns 150 this year. R Gopalakrishnan, former director, Tata Sons Ltd, imagines a conversation among the group's founder Jamsetji, his son Dorabji, his successor, Nowroji Saklatwala, and his successor, J R D Tata.
These graduates will have the opportunity to spend a year training and working for TCS at its Innovation Labs and software development centres across India between 2016 and 2020.
Few people know Ratan Tata as well as R K Krishna Kumar does. Widely perceived to be among the managers closest to Tata, Krishna Kumar assesses Ratan Tata, the man and business leader, in this exclusive interview to Rediff.com's Vaihayasi Pande Daniel.
>The farmers will go home but the country will not get the agricultural reform it badly needs -- if nothing else, then to prevent a bigger water crisis than already exists, argues T N Ninan.
Tata Steel (then Tata Iron and Steel), the most valuable index company in 1991, is now the least valuable.
The proposed changes in Long Products business will predominately affect management and administrative functions at sites in Scunthorpe, Teesside and Workington.
AI, cloud computing, data analytics are a few areas companies are looking for proficiency in
Ten of top 15 companies in 1991 were PSUs; now, there are only six. Their revenue share has also fallen from 86% to 45%
'I am not the Manas Deka who attacked Kanhaiya,' says the BJP activist who shares the same name with the man who allegedly tried to 'strangle' the JNUSU leader.
These firms owe Rs 13 trillion to lenders and account for 55% of all non-financial corporate debt.
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Largest industry gift to CMU and largest gift from outside US will support new facility and student scholarships
The company hires postgraduate and PhD students from A+ grade institutes to be part of its research team.
The campus placements process usually starts in July-August, but is likely to start earlier this year.
From Accenture to IBM, IT hiring is set to gain pace where most of these openings are for lateral hiring for people with 4-6 years of experience.
Among IT services firm, Cognizant witnessed over 60 per cent of its initial applications rejected, followed by Capgemini, Accenture, Wipro, and Infosys. In 2018, the top six Indian firms got just 16 per cent or 2,145 H1B work permits.
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50 years ago, on April 1, 1968, Tata Consultancy Services -- now India's leading IT company -- was born. The foundation for TCS was laid by Faqir Chand Kohli whose life touched directly or indirectly many, many, Indians, says Shivanand Kanavi.
IT services firms would no longer focus on large volume hiring from campuses like they did at least two to three years ago, as demands of clients are changing.
Rediff reader Sherfudeen Mohamed, 41 from Canada shares his inspiring story:
With cash shortage and plans going awry, the AirAsia owner is looking to cash out of the venture he built with Ratan Tata in 2013.
While the governments of Odisha, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh have assured students that they will provide transportation to candidates, a group of IIT alumni and students have also launched a portal to provide transport facilities to exam centres for the candidates in need.
Colleges are witnessing more offers, with better salary packages. Median salary packages offered have improved over last year.
Combining affordable IT with native Indian ingenuity and entrepreneurship F C Kohli believed would enable Indian small businesses match anyone and thrive.
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