An Indian woman employee at the London office of IT major Wipro has filed a 1 million pounds compensation case of sexual discrimination.
IT and outsourcing services firm Cap Gemini SA is mulling to raise up to 500 million euros through share sale for funding further acquisitions.
Shares of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) fell by 4 per cent on worries that growth may be muted.
Destination India is the buzzword, says TCS MD and CEO S Ramadorai
Nasscom plans to introduce by this year-end a common certification in terms of skills and knowledge, that matches industry requirement.
Accenture -- considered as one of the top-most employers in India among the global technology services companies -- is believed to have over 150,000 workers in India, next to IBM.
After high-tech industry, outsourcing of educational services is now a growing business with Indian teachers tutoring American school children at a far less cost than their US counterparts.
The joint venture firm will be fully operational by the end of August this year.
India's vibrant BPO and knowledge-based sectors may be adversely impacted if the Avian flu turns into a pandemic, Hong Kong-based security and risk management consultancy firm, Hill and Associates, warned on Tuesday.
The growth of offshore business process outsourcing industry in the country is likely to further slow down over the next one year amid concerns over data security breach, high attrition rates and staffing costs, rising competition and continuing marg
US-based Outsource Partners International, a leading BPO firm specialising in finance and accounting services, has plans to open its third service centre in the country at Thiruvananthapuram.
British energy giant Powergen has announced it is closing its call centres in India saying outsourcing has hurt customer satisfaction.
India, the world's second-fastest growing economy and a global outsourcing hub, has seen private equity funding more than double in 2006 as cash-rich investors from US and Europe eye a major chunk of the booming market.
Top Indian IT companies such as Infosys, TCS and Wipro, which are mainly into software services business, could be toppled by lesser known firms in the outsourced (software) product development business in the coming years, according to industry offi
Noida-based BPO firm, EXL Service is likely to list its shares on the Nasdaq Stock Market on October 20 after pricing its public issue of five million shares in the US market later this week.
Indian chief information officers would be mainly concerned with the issue of IT infrastructure during the year 2004, Gartner Inc, the research and advisory firm, said on Tuesday.
The single greatest empowerment to our economic growth as we continue to move towards three per cent or four per cent GDP growth will be the resources that we need to fill hi-tech jobs, advanced degrees, advanced analytics, science and research: Senator Thom Tillis.
CMS Computers Ltd, a $70 million information technology firm, has set up centres in Mumbai, Delhi and Chennai to provide specialized outsourced variable data printing solutions.
Global research firm Gartner Inc expects an increase in travel to and from India, mirroring the growth trajectory of the country's information technology and business process outsourcing segments.
Call centre markets of India and the Philippines are set to see further boom through 2009, a study says.
Building front-end and stitching it with back-end is a task that IT firms are learning the hard way, finds Raghu Krishnan.
The red brigade's call for forming trade unions for BPO employees was cold-shouldered by the $5.2 billion outsourcing industry, even as a research firm welcomed it.
Supply of space for corporate offices likely to cross 100 million sq ft by 2006.
Sonata Software said on Monday it is evaluating plans to enter the business process outsourcing sector in the insurance space.
Software majors Infosys and Wipro, who are vying with each other for global information technology outsourcing contracts, have now joined hands to outsmart competitors and win domestic banking contracts.
Notwithstanding the protectionism and other hindrances, the current mood of optimism about the Indian business process outsourcing sector's growth prospects seems justified, according to the London-based magazine The Economist.
Under GST, the small and medium industries would have to handle things on their own, says V S Krishnan.
Essar Global Fund, the Ruia company that invested $1.3 billion in telecommunications, towers and business process outsourcing over the years, made $6.5 billion, a five-fold return, when it flipped these businesses, according to discussions the group has had with merchant bankers.
Global investment in offshore IT services will grow from $7 billion in 2003 to $17 billion by 2008 and India was among the select group of countries that are poised to gain from this spurt in outsourcing, a new research has predicted.
However, the IT firms will get some benefits, as software exports from their Chinese campuses will yield more in local currency
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