Experts are predicting that more and more consumers will take to mobile banking as the under-banked look for a better online shopping experience Apple Pay uses NFC to enable payments. However, apart from the US, NFC has failed to gain…
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Vodafone announces special plans for iPhones
Apple has stepped up its India play, tying up with Vodafone to offer its range of devices, including the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, on monthly installments over two years, while the country's No. 2 Telco looks to tie in…
Cisco adds 129 crorepatis in a year to retain talent
The number of crorepatis at Cisco India shot up to 132 in 2014 from just three in the previous year, a development that comes at a time when the USbased network equipment maker is gearing up to cash in on…
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Infosys Q3 net profit up 13% at Rs 3,250 crore; beats expectations
Beating expectations, Infosys on Friday reported 13 percent jump in consolidated net profit for the third quarter to Rs 3,250 crore, helped by increase in business and clients from North America, as also from India. However, Greyhound Research CEO Sanchit…
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Infosys Q3 net profit up 13% at Rs 3,250 crore; beats expectations
Beating expectations, Infosys on Friday reported 13 percent jump in consolidated net profit for the third quarter to Rs 3,250 crore, helped by increase in business and clients from North America, as also from India. However, Greyhound Research CEO Sanchit…
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Infosys Q3 net profit up 13% at Rs 3,250 crore; beats expectations
Beating expectations, Infosys on Friday reported 13 percent jump in consolidated net profit for the third quarter to Rs 3,250 crore, helped by increase in business and clients from North America, as also from India. However, Greyhound Research CEO Sanchit…
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Infosys Q3 Net Profit Up 13%, Beats Expectations
Beating expectations, Infosys today reported 13 per cent jump in consolidated net profit for the third quarter to Rs 3,250 crore, helped by increase in business and clients from North America, as also from India. However, Greyhound Research CEO Sanchit…
Competition, investment expenses to weigh on Q3 results of listed e-commerce players
E-commerce companies, the poster children of growth in recent years, are likely to report muted earnings for the quarter ended December 2014 due to high competition and investment expenses, say analysts. "The number of searches on the Internet has been…
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Infosys Q3 profit rises 13% to Rs3,250 crore
Infosys maintains full-year revenue guidance citing strong demand from US-based clients “We believe that if Vishal can reduce attrition in the beginning of the quarter that will be a good start and a positive step towards winning internal confidence,” said…
Sikka’s ‘New and ReNew’ strategy sparks a slow turnaround at Infosys
India's second largest IT services exporter Infosys Ltd reported better than expected net profit numbers and revenue, which were in line with market expectations for the third quarter of the current financial year. However, Sanchit Vir Gogia, Chief Analyst and…
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Global And Indian Cloud Companies Scale Up Capacity To Meet Demand
With a fledgling cloud computing market in the country, both international and Indian cloud players are ramping up capacity to meet the increasing demand and are expected to spend over Rs 10,000 crore in the next three years. As per…
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Q2 Call: HCL Technologies Expects A 210 bps Hit On Its Revenue
India's fourth largest information technology outsourcing company HCL Technologies said on Tuesday that it expects a strong dollar to adversely impact its revenue in the second quarter ending December 2014. "Looking at the performance and numbers of HCL and TCS in this…
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All will be well: taxi service investors
Confident that strong regulatory and monitoring mechanism will eliminate problems. Despite the Delhi government and some States banning the operations of taxi aggregators after a Uber cab driver allegedly raped a passenger, investors continue to place faith in them, in the…
Greyhound Research ranked number two in Asia Pacific and top 10 globally in ‘Analyst Firm Of The Year Awards’
The firm has the credit of the only young firm (18 months in operation) amongst the list of long existing global majors Commenting on this announcement, Sanchit Vir Gogia, Chief Analyst and Group CEO, Greyhound Research said, “I want to…
Avekshaa gets funding from Karnataka IT Venture
Avekshaa Technologies, an IT start-up company backed by former Infosys CFO V Balakrishnan, has chalked out aggressive growth plans. “A disruption is needed in the way Indian outsourcers bag deals and more of the old style pitching will not work,”…
Analyst Firm Of The Year Awards: Greyhound Research ranked No.2 in APAC
Greyhound Research, the 18-months old IT and telecom research firm, has been ranked second best analyst firm in Asia Pacific by Influencer Relations. It also becomes the only analyst firm headquartered in Asia Pacific to rank amongst top 10 firms…
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Greyhound Research in the running for Influencer Relations’ Analyst Firm of the Year awards
Influencer Relations blog has announced the 2014 “Analyst Firm of the Year” awards. Contenders have been narrowed down to a shortlist of 18 firms which are in the top ten rankings for ten different categories. The awards aim to recognise…
Deal stream: Six deals worth Rs 27,153 crore closed in just seven days
With markets hitting new highs almost everyday and business sentiment improving, India Inc got on to the mergers and acquisitions (M&A) bandwagon closing as many as six deals worth Rs 27,153 crore in just seven days. On the TechM deal,…
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EMC Redefines Hybrid Cloud for the Enterprise
EMC Enterprise Hybrid Cloud Federation Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) Edition with VMware available immediately. Microsoft Cloud Platform and OpenStack® Editions to be available in 2015. Solution offers public cloud interoperability with VMware vCloud® AirTM, Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and…
EMC Furthers Its Hybrid Cloud Ambition For Enterprises
Last month IT major EMC announced globally that it is venturing into the hybrid cloud space. At a recent webinar the IT major explains how the company is furthering its hybrid cloud ambition by launching a new solution for enterprises…
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EMC Announces Professional Services For Hybrid Cloud
The company has announced four new services under its professional services portfolio to for end-to-end turnkey operational management; to analyze application requirements and workload suitability; for IT transformation and education services According to Sanchit Vir Gogia, Chief Analyst and Group…
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Big Data Impacts One And All
To serve a growing customer base and better manage the client experience across all customer touchpoints, organisations are moving away from siloed transaction-oriented systems – such as enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM) and dealer management systems –…
Deal Street Sees Rs. 27,000-Crore Mergers and Acquisitions in a Week
With the markets hitting new highs almost every day and an improving business sentiment, India Inc got on to the mergers and acquisitions (M&A) bandwagon closing as many as six deals worth Rs. 27,153 crore in just seven days. The deal…
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Tech Mahindra Buys LCC For $240 Million In Largest Indian IT Deal This Year
In the largest acquisition in Indian software services space this year, Tech Mahindra will buy out US-based Lightbridge Communications Corporation (LCC) for US $240 million (over Rs 1,486 crore) in an all-cash deal. Greyhound Research CEO Sanchit Vir Gogia said…
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Tech Mahindra buys LCC for $240 million in largest Indian IT deal this year
In the largest acquisition in Indian software services space this year, Tech Mahindra will buy out US-based Lightbridge Communications Corporation (LCC) for US $240 million (over Rs 1,486 crore) in an all-cash deal. Greyhound Research CEO Sanchit Vir Gogia said…
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SanDisk in talks with Indian phone-makers to enhance memory of devices
Indian phone brands such as Micromax and Lava could soon offer devices with four times more memory. However, industry watchers feel flash memory cards are still too costly for entry-level phones. The price difference could be upwards of 10 per…
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#GreyhoundInMedia: SanDisk (@SanDisk) in talks with Indian phone-makers to enhance memory of devices #Press #Media @Business_Line_
Indian phone brands such as Micromax and Lava could soon offer devices with four times more memory. However, industry watchers feel flash memory cards are still too costly for entry-level phones. The price difference could be upwards of 10 per…
#GreyhoundInMedia: Microsoft (@MicrosoftIndia) plans to bring free Internet to India with ‘White Space’ spectrum #Press #Media @JagranPost
Microsoft has proposed to make use of the “white space” or the unused spectrum between two TV channels, to make Internet connectivity to a vast population an economically-viable solution, Hindustan Times said in a report. Greyhound Research CEO Sanchit Vir…
#GreyhoundInMedia: Nutanix (@nutanix) announced its entry into the Indian market #Press #Media #ITVoice
Nutanix will provide a new series of converged infrastructure appliances through its strategic relationship with Dell. Nutanix, the web-scale converged infrastructure company, today announced its entry into the Indian market and plans to build a large team of highly skilled engineers…
#GreyhoundInMedia: Web-scale infrastructure company Nutanix (@Nutanix) to enter India market; announces strategic partnership with Dell (@dell) #Press @iweekindia
Nutanix will provide a new series of converged infrastructure appliances through its strategic relationship with Dell. Nutanix, the web-scale converged infrastructure company, today announced its entry into the Indian market and plans to build a large team of highly skilled engineers…