Infosys said it will open a ‘Technology and Innovation Hub’ in the US state of Arizona and hire 1,000 American workers in the state by 2023. Infosys said it has hired 5,874 American workers in the last 16 months. Arizona center will focus on autonomous technologies, Internet...
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TCS opens new DC in Paris as Macron tries to entice more investment
Tata Consultancy Services said it opened its third delivery center in France, with a capacity to seat up to 230 employees. The new DC is being opened at Suresnes near Paris. The company, which opened its first delivery center in 2012 and a second one two...
Wipro announces deals from Nokia, LATAM Cargo
Indian IT outsourcing company Wipro said telecom equipment maker Nokia had moved to the sales order platform designed and operated by it as part of a multi-year outsourcing deal. The company also said it was bringing Latin American cargo company to LATAM Cargo on to...
Infosys CEO Salil Parekh dismisses growth concerns
Infosys CEO Salil Parekh reassured investors that the IT services behemoth was not facing a growth crisis because of the replacement of traditional sourcing models with digital services. He said new age services — such as analytics, marketing, digital product design, digital system integration, cloud...
SAP to include HCL’s aviation industry solution in asset management platform
HCL Technologies (HCL) said Germany-based enterprise software giant SAP has agreed to include, and resell, an ‘add on’ that it developed for aviation-related clients as part of a broader solution. The add-on will help clients streamline their ‘maintenance, repair and overhaul’ operations when using SAP’s...
Tech Mahindra reports 13% QoQ jump in PAT due to tight control over costs
IT services company Tech Mahindra reported a 13% sequential jump in its net profit despite modest growth, after it was able to keep costs almost static. Revenue in rupee terms rose 2.2% on quarter. Translated to dollars, it was up 2.5%. Year on year, revenue...
Majesco sued for $10 mln by US customer for breach of agreement
Majesco, the India-based provider of IT solutions to the insurance industry, said its subsidiary has been sued by a customer in the US for $10 mln (Rs 64 cr). In a filing on Sunday, Jan 28, the company said that on Jan 24, its subsidiary...
Wipro ties up with Harte Hanks to power ‘marketing-as-a-service’ offering
IT services provider Wipro said it will invest $9.9 million (Rs 63 cr) in marketing consultant Harte Hanks and will jointly offer end-to-end marketing technology services to customers. Harte Hanks specializes in omni-channel marketing solutions including consulting, strategic assessment, data, analytics, digital, social, mobile, print,...
Airtel, Idea stocks bleed after Reliance Jio unveils Republic Day Offer
The stocks of Bharti Airtel and Idea Cellular were down around 4% in early trade on Wednesday after Reliance Jio indicated that it would cut tariffs by about 25% as part of a new Republic Day offer. Airtel shares were trading down 21 rupees at...
TCS to help UK’s Marks & Spencer become ‘digital first’
Tata Consultancy Services said it has entered into a five-year deal with long-time customer and retail chain Marks and Spencer to transform its customer experience and make it a ‘digital first’ business. “TCS will be Marks & Spencer’s principal technology partner and drive agility, intelligence,...
Infosys to bring down on-site employee numbers going forward
IT services provider Infosys Ltd said it has largely exhausted the possibility of improving its profit margins by increasing employee utilization levels and will focus on bringing down on-site employee numbers to boost margins. The company reported an employee utilization level of 84.9% for the...
Infosys reports in-line quarter, revenue up 5.8% YoY in constant currency
Infosys reported a quarter that was largely in line with expectations and said it retains its full-year revenue growth guidance at 5.5-6.5%, excluding the impact of currency movements. With nine months gone, the company has grown at 5.6% in constant currency terms so far. For...
TCS reports 1.2% sales growth QoQ, PAT up 1.3%
Tata Consultancy Services reported a 1.3% improvement in revenue in constant currency terms, which is less than the 1.7% improvement reported in the previous quarter, but largely in line with expectations for a tame quarter. Revenue grew 6.2% on year in constant currency terms. In...
Zensar Tech CFO resigns with immediate effect
Zensar Technologies, the IT services company from the RPG Group, said its chief financial officer Manoj Jaiswal resigned with immediate effect. “He will be relieved from his duties with effect from the closing of business hours on Dec 4,” the company said. It was not...
Bangalore, ‘cultural fit’ swung it for Salil Parekh – Search Committee Head
Two crucial factors that swung the decision in favor of hiring Capgemini veteran Salil Parekh as the new CEO of Infosys were his familiarity with working in the IT sector in Bangalore and his overall ‘cultural fit’ with the Indian IT industry, said Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw,...
Boosted by Jio’s success, Mukesh Ambani unveils his future plans
Mukesh Ambani, India’s richest man, said telecom was the first of his big bet, and he will now use his resources to solve problems in three other difficult areas — agriculture, education and healthcare. Speaking at the HT Leadership Summit, Ambani said his primary motivation...
TCS sets up new delivery center in Hyderabad for US-based Zebra Technologies
Tata Consultancy Services, India’s biggest foreign exchange generator, said it has set up a Global Development Center in Hyderabad to cater to Zebra Technologies, a billion-dollar US corporation that specializes in tracking technologies such as bar codes and RFID. The new center will provide “operational...
Oracle Financial Services has yet another stellar quarter, sales up 12%
Banking software maker Oracle Financial Services Software, formerly known as iflex, reported strong year-on-year numbers characterized by robust revenue growth and strict control over costs, however revenue slipped on a sequential basis. Consolidated revenue for the quarter was Rs. 1190 Crore, up 12% compared to...
TCS inaugurates mega campus in Thane, to eventually relocate most Mumbai employees
Tata Consultancy Services said it inaugurated the first phase of Thane delivery center that will have the capacity to seat 30,000 employees when fully developed, which will make it the largest in Mumbai. The company, which has a huge operation in Vikhroli in the city,...
Cognizant raises lower-end of 2017 guidance again
IT services provider Cognizant seemed all set to clock the upper end of its full-year guidance for calendar year 2017, raising the lower-end of its forecast once again. The company, which had changed its revenue growth forecast for 2017 to 9-10% from 8-10% last quarter,...