'In India foreign policy is generally handled by the prime minister.' 'One can clearly see the Vajpayee stamp on all this.' 'Only a person with poetic imagination can weave such a complex web,' says Colonel Anil A Athale (retd).
Terming the Eurozone debt crisis as a "short term" phenomenon, IT industry body Nasscom on Wednesday said that the European bloc will continue to be one of the largest markets for the Indian IT-BPO industry.
India is looking at 5G technology as a major opportunity in terms of offering services tailored for rural India like telehealth, tele-education and bandwidth-heavy applications
Revenue of the Bengaluru-based firm grew 1.7 per cent to Rs 17,078 crore in the June quarter as against Rs 16,782 crore in the year-ago period.
Feel they can't run companies anymore but can be there as guides
Focus has to be a lot about self-learning, says Nasscom Senior VP Sangeeta Gupta.
41 companies take back shares worth Rs 27,783 crore in FY17
Information technology leader Ganesh Natarajan hailed N R Narayana Murthy's reappointment as executive chairman and additional director of Infosys on Saturday.
'The harmful side effects of what we call 'management toxicity' are affecting more and more Indians,' note Jeffrey Pfeffer and M Muneer.
He may make a comeback as co-chairman at India's second largest software exporter.
'What we are going to see is a large number of white collar jobs getting lost.' 'Job loss can drive people to depression, drugs, alcoholism and even suicide as there is no one to turn to when they are down.' 'There is no in-between now -- things go from a luxurious lifestyle to no lifestyle.'
'As a society, we are very intolerant to failures which is contrary to entrepreneurship because all entrepreneurs will not succeed.'
The immigration Bill from a bipartisan group of US Senators will hurt US companies as much as Indian IT service providers.
TCS, Infosys and others are banking on automation to protect their turf in the US, but building a successful revenue model around it may prove difficult
'Overlying his idealism was a hatred of war and of all things military. He gave no deep thought to politico-military matters and this prevented him from making sound security decisions.'
American CEOs expected to meet Modi on Sunday include Apple's Tim Cook, Walmart's Doug McMillon, Caterpillar's Jim Umpleby, Google's Sundar Pichai and Microsoft's Satya Nadella.
Apart from Infosys, players like Tata Consultancy Services and Mindtree have also pointed towards weakness in the financial services sector and project delays and cancellations that could impact the growth of the USD 110 billion IT services sector in the near term.
According to Nasscom, India must make its R&D significantly more robust to realise the 'Make in India' dream
Microsoft Corporation CEO Steve Ballmer is perhaps the most expressive CEOs in the world.
Brushing aside fears of a slowdown in the IT industry, the government on Thursday said the Indian IT-ITes/BPO (including hardware) sector's revenue is expected to grow at over 33 per cent in 2007-08.
India and China by virtue of their large pool of skilled IT employees enjoy a significant advantage among emerging markets but lack of IT infrastructure remains a dampener, blunting their competitive edge, a report by Economic Intelligence research said.
Turn to yoga and meditation at work place to beat stress levels and fight health blues, says an IT industry veteran to techies. Impressed by the value yoga adds in his own company in terms enhancing enthusiasm and output, chairman of city-based IT firm MindTree, Ashok Soota, says the practice certainly helped the firm's professionals energise themselves.
'The boycott has not achieved success. Sales figures for Chinese products on the top three Indian online retailers in the first week of October hit a new record. Amazingly, the Chinese mobile phone company Xiaomi sold half a million phones in just three days on the Flipkart, Amazon India, Snapdeal and Tata CLiQ platforms.'
TCS' customer focus has been central to its recent success.
This revival in sentiments will be reflected in next year's IT budgets which can be expected to be better in terms of volumes and value.
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
No change in rules that govern sending professionals under H1-B visa regime
India ranks 44th in the world in the IT industry competitiveness index 2008, moving 4 notches up from its 2008 ranking of 48 in the index.
After 100% FDI, DIPP has put a condition an e-commerce entity will not be permitted more than 25% of sales through its marketplace from one vendor or their group companies
These can give decent profits to investors in the next six months, says stock market expert Narendar Lokwani.
The slowdown shadow is looming on performance evaluation systems, too.
The US president's stance on immigration could lead to a change in H1B visa rules.
The software services provider looks to cut costs and boost sales.
Company's co-Chairman S Gopalakrishnan says uncertainties continue as unexpected events happen
Undaunted by US President Barack Obama's Bangalore-Buffalo remark, the domestic IT industry said the comments had nothing to do with outsourcing or with India.
Mittal said the US continues to face shortage of IT skills, and expressed hope that there would be comprehensive changes in immigration policy.
Amid headwinds across global markets, US issues fresh restrictions on H-1B visas. Ayan Pramanik & Raghu Krishnan list out the many ways in which this impacts the Indian IT industry.
In less than a week of Donald Trump being sworn in as the 45th US President, the "H-1B and L-1 Visa Reform Act" was introduced to prioritise American workers and restore fairness in visa programmes for skilled workers.
Infosys co-founder Narayana Murthy has singled out "erroneous policies" pursued by successive governments at the Centre.
Traditionally, the October-December quarter is a weak quarter for IT companies as the number of working days is lesser compared to other quarters due to the holiday season at the client locations.
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