IT major Cognizant Technology Solutions said on Friday that its development centre in China was expected to get legal status by August-end and the operations would be headed by Henry Yang, a Chinese native.
Comodo, the United Kingdom-based IT infrastructure and security solutions firm, on Tuesday said it was setting up its biggest product development centre and sales team in Chennai, employing 1,000 people over the next 12 months.
Expanding its India operations, leading United Kingdom-based global software product company, Misys on Friday announced the opening of its third development centre in Bangalore for its risk management systems business.
SSA Global, the world's fourth largest enterprise solutions provider, plans to hire 100 engineers in India in the next 12 months and use expertise of Indian software services providers for projects overseas.
Home appliances major Electrolux on Tuesday said it will invest Rs 40 crore (Rs 400 million) by 2007 in a research and development centre here, besides sourcing IT services from Patni Computers as well as components from India.
Projecting India as a centre of Intel's core chips development work, a company official on Friday said its development centre in Bangalore would work on the next generation mobile chipset to be launched next year, as well as processor for servers.
Google, the popular Internet search engine, has chosen India's Silicon Valley Bangalore for its first engineering research and development centre outside the United States to be set up next year.
The US-based 3Com Corporation on Tuesday opened its India Research and development Centre, (IDC), in Hyderabad through a strategic partnership with Mars Telecom.
The booming East China region as well as Shanghai metropolis has wooed top Indian firms like Infosys, Satyam, TCS, NIIT, State Bank of India and Reliance to set up software development centres or representative offices.
NIIT Ltd has planned to focus on expanding its knowledge solutions business in the US and European markets by cashing in on the growing trend of outsourcing the services of customised content development and training of workforce.
Three Indian biotech firms have plans to set up research and development centres at the Frankfurt Innovation Centre for Biotechnology.
Commerce Minister Arun Jaitlet said on Monday that India had been successful in getting outsourced business from abroad including the US because of its competitive edge and by virtue of being a low cost economy.
SAP, a global leader in business software solutions, has announced that it will more than double its development team in India to 3,000 from 1,300, by the end of 2006.
Satyam, which started its Chennai operations in 1997 with exports of Rs 20 million, now has six offices in the city with about 3,500 employees and exports of Rs 154 crore (Rs 1.54 billion) in the year ended March 2004.
Intel Corporation on Thursday announced the expansion of its management team in India in recognition of the growing importance of the country as a global design and development centre, as well as a significant consumer market.
Betting big on India, the United States-based telecom technology major Qualcomm Inc on Friday said it would open a research and development centre in the country this year to write software for code division multiple access-based technology.
Banking software company i-flex will add about 1200 software professionals in the next five months to become a 5000-strong organisation by March 2005 with most of the recruitment taking place at its Pune and Chennai development centres.
Google Inc, the world's largest search engine, is all set to open a high-end research and development centre in Bangalore.\n\n\n\n
Eyeing to capture wider market for embedded software systems, Florida-based Trioz Tech launched its operations in India by setting up a research and development centre in Coimbatore.\n\n
IT services major Patni Computer Systems Ltd is to expand its operations in Chennai by setting up a centre to accommodate 10,000 professionals with investment outlay of Rs 450 crore (Rs 4.50 billion).
Chinese telecommunication equipment company ZTE Corporation on Friday said it expects to set up a research and development centre in Bangalore by the year-end.
Intel plans to set up a development centre in Bangalore with a capacity to house 3,000 software and electronics professionals, at a cost of $41 million, a senior Karnataka minister said on Tuesday.
Samsung will invest another $5 million in its software research and development centre at Noida this year to develop products like digital TV and plasma display panels for global consumption.
German software major SAP AG said on Tuesday that it would invest euro 20 million in expanding its facility in Bangalore and that it planned to increase the workforce to 3,000 by 2006.
West Bengal government hopes that Infosys Technologies will follow in the footsteps of other IT majors in setting up its development centre in the state.
