'Employers increasingly want candidates who can take AI pilots from proof-of-concept to production-ready systems.' 'That requires governance, monitoring, and ROI measurement -- skills that go beyond coding and into business impact.'
India's mergers & acquisitions (M&As) market recorded deals worth $45.44 billion in the first half of 2025, up nearly 3.3 per cent from a year ago, even as ultra large-ticket transactions remained subdued. During the first half, the 7.1 per cent rise in deal count to 1,614 signals continuing appetite among domestic conglomerates and private equity (PE) funds for mid-sized and smaller assets.
"Outsourcing will continue. Even with the increase in wages in India by 14 or 14.5 per cent a year, we are still competitive upto the foreseeable future till 2011-12." TCS CEO and managing director S Ramadorai told reporters.
French information technology (IT) and consulting services major Capgemini on Monday said it would acquire Mumbai-headquartered WNS for $3.3 billion in cash. This could be one of the largest merger & acquisition deals in the IT services and business process management sector.
'Who gave the Tatas the right to discontinue technically sound practices related to safety and security?'
With the rise of wellness tourism and experiential travel, specialised jobs are being created in spa management, event planning and local experience curation, besides social media management.
Two outsourcers would be selected to perform a range of work and are set to benefit as Westpac spends hundreds of millions of dollars over the next couple of years to update core banking systems and integrate complex technology functions as part of the 12-billion-Australian-dollars acquisition of St George Bank, the newspaper said. Westpac refused to comment on the issue.
The agency seized documents like answer sheets, OMR codes, hand-written notes related to IDs and names of candidates apart from their education certificates, the sources said.
Call centres, once the engine room of India's BPO exports, are evolving too. Depending on the complexity, 30 to 50 per cent of voice and chat volumes are now handled by conversational AI.
Brazilian authorities have rescued 163 workers from conditions similar to 'slavery' at a construction site for a factory of Chinese electric vehicle company Build Your Dreams (BYD) in Camacari, Bahia.
Raman Roy talks about how this technique put India on the world's business map.
Hero Corporate Service Ltd chairman Sunil Kant Munjal said the foray is a part of the company's plan to 'unlock opportunities and deliver value' in the country's booming service sector.
Congress should pass laws that create US jobs, not destroy them," said Marc Apter, president of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers-USA.
The video of the incident which happened in Whitefield on Tuesday evening went viral on social media platforms.
A majority of Indian companies expect an increase in their IT outsourcing investment over the next two years as they are looking at reducing operational costs and improving business performance, a study has said.
A 28-year-old woman working with a business process outsourcing (BPO) company in Pune died after her male colleague allegedly attacked her with a sharp weapon on Tuesday evening, police said.
Export-led Indian IT sector is not directly hit by Trump's tariff order on goods, but there could be worrisome indirect bearings on it arising out of possible slowdown in decision-making and GDP growth in America over higher tariffs, which may then cloud demand from specific verticals, according to some analysts.
When Control Solutions, one of the biggest accounting firms in the US dealing with Sarbanes-Oxley accounting compliance procedures
Mumbai-based fashion apparel manufacturer Spykar Lifestyle recently received $5 million (Rs 20 crore) investment from private equity firm Avigo Capital Partners.
India's largest IT services firm Tata Consultancy Services on Thursday reported a 1.68 per cent dip in its consolidated net profit to Rs 12,224 crore for the March 2025 quarter. Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) - whose earnings marked the official start of IT results season - reported a total revenue of Rs 64,479 crore in Q4 FY25, up 5.3 per cent over the year-ago period.
In a significant report, an influential consultancy firm has warned American companies that either they outsource more work to India, including high-powered functions like research and development, or face extinction.
Even as concerns grow over the residential real estate market reaching its peak, the outlook for office real estate remains strong, with listed real estate investment trusts (Reits) standing to benefit from sustained demand in the segment.
Wipro Technologies, the IT services business of Wipro, has been rated the top Indian outsourcing firm in the Global Outsourcing 100 Rankings released by the International Association of Outsourcing Professionals.
An increase in the number of outsourcing deals between domestic drug companies and pharmaceutical multinationals has triggered huge capacity expansion programmes in the drug manufacturing sector.
Bhargava along with Harsha Raghavan, the former India head of Candover Investments, have formed Steer Capital.
According to various manpower outsourcing firms, more and more companies are resorting to temporary staffing. Rakesh Joshi, regional manager -- operations, IKYA Staffing Solutions, said permanent staffing had seen a slow growth in the recessionary phase. He said companies were not only going for temporary staffing in the junior level recruitments, a few of them were also opting for temporary staffing in middle management.
Sensing the high stress levels among employees that lead to lower productivity and higher attrition rates
The Mumbai terror attacks have once again put Indian IT and business process outsourcing firms on high alert. Over the next four to five weeks, many of these firms plan to meet or video-conference with their clients to update them of the country's security scenario.
'The race is now on for Indian IT firms to develop their AI prowess and focus on a software-first approach to services as the people element becomes more complicated with Trump's expected new regulations.'
'The choice is clear: We either embrace this transformation and cement our global leadership, or hesitate, lose ground, and fade into irrelevance.'
With industry buckling under the impact of global meltdown, Indian IT outsourcing firms are adopting a 'zero tolerance' policy on fraudsters who have managed to get IT jobs using fake resumes.
The acquisition will be conducted through a tender for all the outstanding shares of Infocrossing, followed by a merger of Infocrossing with a Wipro subsidiary.
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