After announcing a cut in the employees' salaries, IT major TCS has asked 500 employees to quit their jobs after a performance appraisal.
In an internal note sent to employees, TCS said the company had not met its the third quarter internal economic value-added (EVA) target. The company plans to make up for the losses with a cut the variable pay.
TCS Vice-President (Business Development) Mario Tucci has been appointed as the country manager of the new unit which comprises a global delivery centre and regional training centre in Montevideo and an extension unit in Buenos Aires.
Tata Consultancy Services scrip ended the day 4.27 per cent higher at Rs 2,214.65 apiece on the BSE.
'We expect realisation will be flattish for the rest of the fiscal (year).'
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), India's largest information technology services firm, has decided to revise the monthly salary of Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Managing Director N Chandrasekaran by half to Rs 15 lakh.
The number of applications filed for H-1B visa this year was around 40 per cent higher than a year ago.
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The IT bellwether currently has about 28,000 employees in West Bengal in different facilities and it expects to recruit around 4,000 more in the current year.
Nine of the 10 most valued firms faced a combined erosion of Rs 1,87,808.26 crore in market valuation last week, with HDFC Bank and Reliance Industries taking the biggest hit amid an overall weak trend in equities. Last week, the BSE benchmark tumbled 1,538.64 points or 2.52 per cent amid concerns that the US Federal Reserve might raise interest rates further to curb inflation. Fresh foreign fund outflows also dented investor sentiments. Barring ITC, all 10 firms, including Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Infosys, ICICI Bank and Hindustan Unilever, were the laggards.
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Tata Consultancy Services on Monday said China's Hua Xia Bank has selected its core banking solution of Financial Network Services to facilitate the bank's technology-powered business transformation.
TCS expects the October-December quarter volumes to be lower due to lesser working days.
Incumbent DMK MP T Sumathy alias Tamizhachi Thangapandian will face-off former Telangana Governor and BJP leader Tamilisai Soundararajan, while the the AIADMK has fielded ex-MP Dr J Jayavardhan, who won from here in 2014.
He however said, US has been a very welcoming market for TCS and has provided it with a fair, open and competitive environment
TCS is also seeking more time for setting up a unit in Mihan special economic zone at Nagpur in Maharashtra.
The other prominent gainers were Tech Mahindra, HCL Technologies, Wipro, State Bank of India and Larsen & Toubro. Bajaj Finserv, Power Grid, UltraTech Cement and HDFC Bank were among the laggards.
N Chandrasekaran saw his annual compensation rise to Rs 25.6 crore.
Plans over $1 bn equity sale to fund group buyouts.
The second-quarter results of the major Indian software companies threw up few surprises.
Companies which have been dropped from the list include Tata Motors, Hindustan Unilever, MRF, Glaxo SmithKline Consumer Healthcare, Pfizer, Dr Reddy's Labs, Glenmark Pharmaceuticals, HDFC and Kotak Mahindra Bank
The announcement comes in the wake of outsourcing and the ensuing flight of jobs to cheap labour countries like India becoming a contentious issue in the developed world.
Tata Consultancy Services TCS) said it has bagged a Rs 85-crore three-year deal for implementing smart card-based Financial Inclusion Solution (FIS) for Indian Bank.
The appreciating rupee has taken its toll on Tata Consultancy Services' June quarter numbers, with the top line growing just 1per cent sequentially in rupee terms to Rs 5202.8 crore (Rs 52.02 billion).
The recent sell-off in IT stocks such as Infosys and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has resulted in a sharp decline in the IT sector weighting in the Nifty50 index. The sector's weighting in the index has slipped to a five-year low of 12.2 per cent, down from the 17.7 per cent at the end of March 2022. The top IT companies - TCS, Infosys, Wipro, HCL Technologies, and Tech Mahindra - accounted for 13.6 per cent of the index at the end of March this year.
Led by Tata Motors and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), the combined revenue of the Tata group's listed firms crossed the Rs 10-trillion mark for the first time, in 2022-23. The group's 14 key listed companies in which Tata Sons holds a direct equity stake reported a combined revenue of Rs 10.07 trillion in FY23, up 15.3 per cent from Rs 8.73 trillion in FY22. The combined net profit of these companies was, however, down 10.6 per cent year-on-year (YoY) at Rs 66,670 crore in FY23, from a record high of Rs 74,540 crore in the previous financial year, when the profit had jumped 156 per cent YoY, aided by Tata Steel's strong showing.
Large Indian IT services companies are expected to report "muted" sequential show in a traditionally strong second quarter, as macroeconomic challenges continue to weigh on global discretionary spending, say market watchers. The big earnings week for tech heavyweights is up ahead, with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) scheduled to announce its results on October 11, and both Infosys and HCL Technologies on October 12. Wipro is slated to declare its Q2FY24 results next week, on October 18.
Infosys, however, remains the 'dream company' in the IT arena, while MNCs occupy the maximum mindshare of professionals.
The company also does not have a target on the number or percentage of the working staff when it comes to women, it said.
India's largest information technology services provider, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), beat analyst expectations on both net profit and operating margins during the fourth quarter ending March 31.
India's top IT company Tata Consultancy Services Ltd plans to make Chennai its biggest centre over a period of time, replacing Mumbai where it is headquartered now, a top company official said.
Everyone (with some exceptions) whose estimated tax liability is Rs 10,000 or more in a financial year must pay advance tax.
The project will be commissioned in phases, official sources said on Thursday.
The company also plans to recruit over 3,000 people on onsite in countries like Brazil, Uruguay, China and in Latin America, among others.
Any changes in the visa regime may result in higher operational costs and shortage of skilled workers for the $110 billion Indian outsourcing industry.
TCS will acquire 20.67 per cent in WTI Advanced Technology for which it has reached an agreement with the International Finance Corporation, the private lending arm of the World Bank.
Information technology (IT) companies have been on the road to revival in the past one year. From being the worst-hit sector in 2022 with a loss of 26 per cent, the Nifty IT index closed 2023 with gains of 24 per cent. So far in 2024, the index is up around 7 per cent against the nearly flat Nifty 50 benchmark index. The IT index has been on a continuous decline in the last three sessions.
