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During the quarter, HCL added 37 customers.
Allsec Technologies is set to buy US-based mortgage servicing business company Retreat Capital Management
Infosys Technologies Ltd allotted 4059 equity shares under an employee stock option plan.
TVS Electronics Ltd will consider a proposal to merge with TVS eTechnology Ltd.
Sindu Valley Technologies Ltd fixed March 20 record date for its proposed rights issue.
Merck arm sues Sun over cancer drugSchering Corporation, part of multinational pharma company Merck & Co, and London-based Cancer Research Technology Ltd have sued Sun Pharmaceutical for allegedly infringing patent rights on the world's largest selling brain cancer drug, Temodar.
Eonour Technologies Ltds System Telecom and Data Services received a system integration contract from Federal Bank Ltd.
HCL Technologies Ltd, India's No. 4 IT services exporter, beat expectations with a 41.6 percent rise in quarterly profit, after order wins boosted earnings.
Software icon N R Narayana Murthy has bemoaned that the 'elite' are going unpunished though they commit 'huge crimes' in the country and saw it as 'problem with this society'.
The nominations committee of the board had earlier recommended Kamath's induction as an additional director. Kamath, at the end of April 2009, stepped down as CMD of ICICI Bank and is now the non-executive chairman.
Hexaware Technologies Ltd decided to 11,871 shares of Rs 10 each under and employee stock option sceme.
eonour Technologies Ltd plans to file an Sebi appellate tribunal seeking to quash Sebi directions against the company.
Three stockmarket experts give their best picks for the New Year.
Hexaware Technologies Ltd board will meet on February 17 to consider audited financial results for the year ended December 31, 2002.
Promila Awasthi, an India-born American citizen, alleged her former bosses mocked her for observing American holidays like Thanksgiving and Christmas
The award will be presented to Nilekani by Yale University president Richard C Levin at the Yale CEO Leadership Summit of The Chief Executive Leadership Institute.
Infosys Technologies Ltd has been recognised amongst the top 16 Asian companies to be listed in the prestigious Most Admired Knowledge Enterprises (MAKE) study, 2009.
TVS Electronics Ltd board approved a merger with TVS eTechnology Ltd. One TVS Electronics share will be swapped for each eTech share.
Google, which is working on projects including self-driving cars and robots, has become increasingly focused on artificial intelligence in recent years.
IT behemoth Infosys Technologies Ltd, which came out with its third quarter earnings, is awaiting approval for 219 patent applications in India and the US.
Silverline Technologies Ltd will seek members approval to raise resources through debt or equity, increase authorised capital, and sell or lease some of its undertakings.
Eonour Technologies Ltd said Chennai High Court put an interim stay on the Sebi order restraining the company from dealing in securities for three years.
Pentasoft Technologies Ltd decided to issue 1.5 crore shares of Rs 10 each and 1,00,00,000 warrants on a preferential allotment basis.
Selan Exploration Technology Ltd will discontinue with the buyback of its fully paid-up equity shares of face value of Rs10 each from the open market.
Infosys Technologies Ltd expects to find acquisition opportunities in the US during the downturn, co-chairman Nandan Nilekani was quoted as saying on Friday. "Acquisitions will definitely be very accessible in this market from a price point of view," Nilekani told the Wall Street Journal in an interview. "If it makes sense, we'll do it."
Silverline Technologies Ltd signed an MOU with a telecom BPO Solutions provider in USA, to support 200-250 seats capacity from its offshore development centres in India, in Phase-1.
Infosys Technologies Ltd plans a sponsored secondary ADR program. The company board okayed sponsorship of an ADR issue of 2 to 3 million shares, equivalent to 4 to 6 million ADRs.
IITians need to play a larger role in nation building and contribute to society. This could vary from mentorship, creation of jobs and broader wealth creation, said Nandan Nilekani, co-chairman and co-founder of Infosys Technologies Ltd, during the weekend.
Grappling with falling sales and a dropping bottom line, companies have had no alternate but to put cost-cutting measures in place. Infosys, for example, has cut variable pay, made appraisals more stringent and asked employees to make a one time saving of $10.
Hexaware Technologies Ltd signed an alliance with Temenos, a banking products and software systems firm.
Infosys made this position clear, a day after its chairman and chief mentor N R Narayana Murthy reiterated that his company would not act on any CVs received from Satyam employees to ensure that nothing is done that would adversely impact the Hyderabad-based firm's future.
IT major Infosys Technologies Ltd is not seeing any trend towards downward pressure on pricing by clients, its CEO and managing director S Gopalakrishnan said on Wednesday. "We are not seeing any trend towards driving down pricing", Gopalakrishnan told reporters in response to questions on the sidelines of a press conference of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE).
Goldstone Technologies Ltd said it expects an income Rs 1100 million to Rs 1200 million and a profit of Rs 150 million to Rs 160 million or Rs 10 a share for 2003-04.
IEX, promoted by Financial Technologies, will be a pan India neutral and transparent electronic demutualized exchange for efficient price discovery in the electricity market. PTC India Ltd has consented to take 26 per cent stake in IEX.
Reacting to the horrific blasts that ripped through Bengaluru, India's third-largest software company, Infosys Technologies Ltd, said that it had increased security on its campus and that all its employees are safe.
Infosys has opened its first Latin American developmental centre in Mexico.
"Employees who have been consistently demonstrating poor performance were counselled out. Less than 1 per cent of our 11,250 employees in Chennai and 11,496 employees in Hyderabad have been impacted. As for the Thiruvananthapuram centre, less than 1 per cent of the 1,800 employees were impacted," said Mohandas Pai, member of the board, director, human resources, Infosys Technologies.