According to a survey by community platform LocalCircles, early-stage start-ups, funding dependent start-ups and many small businesses will soon be fighting for survival as the spurt in coronavirus cases hits them hard.
Satyam Computer Services' bidding contract stipulated 100 people who have to be retained by the new owners for at least a year. The list is 'absolutely non-hierarchical' and based on 'project criticality and customer criticality,' according to a senior company executive. It ncludes people outside the top ranks, essentially those engaged in relationship management, programme management and solution (technology) architects.
Staying healthy is good news for the insurance company as well since it implies lower claims. Insurance companies offer discounts anywhere between 8 And 30 per cent discount on premium.
'More than 900 companies believe that the majority of their employees worry about AI's role in potential job losses.' 'It makes employees anxious about working with machines or AI applications and fuels resistance to change,' says a Capgemini report.
Gecis on Thursday announced acquiring US-based BPO solutions provider Creditek Corporation.
The 4G service may use Reliance Retail, with a surging customer base, as the launch pad
Anil Rego, CEO, Right Horizons, answers your personal income tax queries.
Shailendra Kumar, MD, Oracle India, details the India plan.
Microsoft's 'Online Services' in India will allow small and medium businesses and enterprise customers to access e-mail and conferencing solutions through Internet, for as low as $2 per user a month.
The duo spent almost $400 million in 2018 on rapid expansion as well as discounting to gain new customers, and Uber Eats has managed to edge out Foodpanda by 2 million orders.
SBI Life Insurance has launched SBI Life Shubh Nivesh, a traditional savings plan with an option of whole life cover.
Given the relevance of bank deposits for Indian savers, whether the regulator would permit linking savings interest rate to a repo-like structure needs to be seen, as a move of this nature could increase volatility in savings also.
While home-grown firms like Tata and Mahindra have been actively participating in the government's e-mobility mission, by launching electrified versions of their existing models, the global firms believe electric is not the best solution for a country where the primary source of power generation is coal, and where infrastructure is a big impediment.
In this era of online commerce and virtual shopping, Raymond Ltd, one of India's oldest textile manufacturers and retailers, has tailor-made an offline strategy to maintain a strong foothold in the tier III and IV towns. Samreen Ahmad reports.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday unveiled a Rs 39.45 lakh crore Budget with a view to fire up the key engines of the economy to sustain a world-beating recovery from the pandemic. This was Sitharaman's fourth Budget. While the taxpayers were left in the lurch, once again, was she able to cheer Corporate India?
The Tata group's tryst with mobile services, with either CDMA or GSM technology, did not really fly, forcing it to close operations and write off losses. Now the group is back in the big game, this time straddling the telecom equipment, network and technology space in India as well as the global market. To this end, it is leveraging the opportunities that flow from 5G technology through open radio access network, or O-RAN. Recently, the Tata Sons' subsidiary Panatone Finvest acquired 43.3 per cent in Bengaluru-based telecom equipment manufacturer Tejas Network for Rs 1,850 crore and announced it would buy another 26 per cent of the voting capital through an open offer.
NPCI has launched several consumer friendly systems including one that allows users to transfer money to people over mobile phones across India.
As per the outsourcing partnership agreement, Firstsource would manage Barclays' operations center in Colorado Springs and would provide customer care and collection support to its US cardholders, Firstsource Solutions said in a filing to the Bombay Stock Exchange.
Letsgomo Labs has a 76-member team.
By the time the security failure is discovered and fixed, the damage is already done. A CIO survey by Forcepoint and Frost & Sullivan found that 69 per cent of Indian organisations were at risk of data breach. Whenever there is data breach, there is a potential disaster waiting to happen.
The development makes Citibank India the first country franchise within Citigroup to launch an industry innovative mobile payment solution, which has been developed with its technology partner Ezetap.
The poor deployment of WLATMs has tripped what the central bank sought to achieve back in 2012.
For non-banks, the IL&FS crisis was nothing short of India's Lehman moment, which has for a foreseeable future reset the sector on multiple grounds.
According to a customer experience study by networking solutions provider Cisco, 88 per cent of the Indians surveyed are comfortable with interacting with their doctors virtually instead of meeting them in person.
Sparsh, the domestic contact centre division of Spanco Telesystems & Solutions Ltd, is recruiting Customer Service Associates, Team Leaders and Quality Executives.
A day before the second meeting of the new Satyam Computer Services board, newly-appointed director Tarun Das said the priority of the six-member team would be to protect the interest of employees, customers and investors.
US-based Intransa Inc and HCL Peripherals, a unit of HCL Infosystems, on Friday announced a partnership to implement Intransa's IP-SAN (Internet protocol-storage area network) solutions for the customers in India and the Asian region.
Simplilearn said the pandemic had accelerated demand for skills in areas such as artificial intelligence, cloud computing, data science and cybersecurity.
"Tata Communications' agreement with China Entercom allows us to serve our many global and India MNC customers who require a single scalable and reliable global VPN with deep reach into both India and China, and broad reach around the world," Tata Communications President (Global Data & Mobility Services) Vinod Kumar said.
Pricing isn't at the heart of Ikea's strategy. It is understanding how Indians live.
Freshdesk also launched an IT service management product Freshservice to offer cloud-based service desk solution for smaller companies for their internal IT support.
If you're considering settlement as a solution to end your debt problems, take a step back and consider the risks associated with such settlements.
Thousands of retail investors are reaping the benefits of the disruption that the latest technologies have brought to the equity market. Brokerage firms are aggressively investing in technologies such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, big data and analytics, social media, chatbots, virtual assistants and so on.
An impulsive decision to resign could eventually turn out to be a big career mistake, warns Srividya Kannan.
Banks play 'mind games' to woo customers. Big data and 'games' are now the tools of the trade.
HDFC Bank has awarded a contract worth Rs 6.2 crore (Rs 62 million) to Servion Global Solutions for the upgradation of its call centre services.
According to the survey carried out by IDC recently, India scores the highest (8.5) on the happiness quotient of its banking citizens, followed by Indonesia (8.33), New Zealand (8.27) and China (7.93).
Notwithstanding the failure of WTO members to reach a consensus on Trade Facilitation Agreement to simplify global customs rules, India on Friday said it remains committed to the pact and will continue to pursue its proposal to find a permanent solution to its food security issues.
The NASSCOM report said Indian tech industry contributed more than $375 million to the US Treasury between fiscal year 2011-2015
It takes eight to nine months for developing a robust software from the time the rules are decided, warns Bharat Goenka, managing director of Tally Solutions, one of the entities entrusted as a 'Suvidha Provider' with developing ready software for customers to get them ready for the coming Goods and Services Tax.
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