The low-profile CEO started his new innings with the new year.
Som Mittal talks about the industry challenges, the next big disruption for the IT industry.
"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.
Kapil Sibal says there is a need to look at IT differently and not just as a cash cow.
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.
IT major, Hexaware Technologies, plans to hire 400-500 fresh engineers in the current calendar year, a top company official said.
The government has given an 'in-principle' approval to the special incentive package prepared by the department of information technology for semiconductor manufacturing and other high-tech industries.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will deliver the valedictory address on February 9
"When I look at a product like Zune, or other path-breaking applications like software on demand, I always wonder why these products could not come from India," said Anand Mahindra, vice-chairman and MD, Mahindra & Mahindra.
Union Minister for Communications and Information Technology, A Raja on Wednesday assured that the Indian IT sector that the ministry was doing its best to convince the government that the Software Technology Parks of India (STPI) scheme should be extended beyond 2009.
Indian investment bank Avendus Advisors on Thursday said that it is in the process of floating a $200 million India specific fund for investing in diversified sectors.
After two decades of being in the information technology business, India is still a 'toddler' with only 2 per cent of global market share, according to N R Narayana Murthy, Chairman and Chief Mentor, Infosys Technologies Ltd.
In October, the company had announced that it will hire 35,000 freshers.
'We are on a whole different level of complexities and fundamental change is happening in the industry. There is a need for organisations to design themselves to deal with such complexities.'
Nasscom said growth for the current financial year (2016-17) was expected to be 8.6%
Job cuts in Indian IT companies will be 1.75 -2 lakh per year in next 3 years, due to under- preparedness in adapting newer technologies, says Head Hunters MD
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.
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