For India’s export-focused software services sector, 2016 was a tough battle. The information technology (IT) sector had to reduce growth numbers for only the second time in a decade, the first being after a US recession triggered by the Lehman…
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IT Companies Will Have To Prove Their Digital Narrative In 2017
Winter has set in, and yet, the biting icy winds do not stop New Yorkers from getting to work. At Liberty Street, inside the Times Inc. office, there are a couple of financial service providers and media companies talking about…
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India’s HCL Technologies Counters Trump-Led US Protectionist Sentiment
On Dec. 8, thousands of supporters in a packed hall in Des Moines, Iowa vociferously cheered President-elect Donald Trump as he reiterated his campaign promise to bring back home millions of jobs that Americans have lost to foreigners. Sanchit Vir…
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Future-Proof Your Brand For 2017 And Beyond
As 2016 winds down and we enter holiday mode, it's time to start thinking of the 2017 work year. Here's why you need to use your down time to put plans into place to upskill your employees and stay ahead…
To Combat Market Slowdown, Nasscom Plans A US IT Show
IT industry's representative body, National Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom), is exploring hosting its first IT industry event in the United States even as the sector combats the market slowdown. "This is clearly a reaction to Trump. But,…
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IT, Workforce, Security Transformation To Herald True Digital Era: Dell-EMC
To become digital in a true sense, Indian enterprises have to work on information technology (IT), workforce and security together to solve the big jigsaw puzzle and stay ahead in the coming cashless era, a top Dell-EMC executive has emphasised.…
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Twitter Exodus Continues As Platform Partnerships Of South Asia Quits
Ravi Bhaskaran, Twitter’s Platform Partnerships Head, South Asia, quit his position on Wednesday. According to Greyhound Research, the digital advertising market in India is currently worth around Rs 7,000 crore – 75% of which lies with Google and Facebook. Twitter,…
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Infosys Steps Up Push For AI Business, Says Vishal Sikka
Infosys chief executive Vishal Sikka says he would look at building the company’s artificial intelligence (AI) offerings as a standalone business, independent of the traditional services, to help build next generation applications for its customers. “It makes sense to have…
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Keynote: Who Owns Digital Transformation?
Below are excerpts of a recent Keynote by Sanchit Vir Gogia on the topic: Who Owns Digital Transformation?
Omega Healthcare Bets On Trump Presidency To Bring Growth, Offshoring
India's large outsourcing firms may be hesitant to give a verdict on policies of President-Elect Donald Trump when he gets into office, thanks to his anti-immigration and anti-outsourcing rhetoric that helped him win elections. But Gopi Natarajan, chief executive of…
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ONTrigger with Rajesh Janey, Dell EMC
Catch Rajesh Janey, President and Managing Director, Dell Enterprise India, Dell EMC in an exclusive conversation with Sanchit Vir Gogia, Chief Analyst & Group CEO, Greyhound Research on our executive dialogue series, #ONTrigger. In this dialogue, Rajesh chats with Sanchit…
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Facebook Updates Its Profile Page For India
On July 12, a day after joining Facebook, Umang Bedi met Sanjiv Mehta, chairman of Hindustan Unilever (HUL). HUL is the highest spender in advertising, in India, and Facebook lives on advertising dollars. As the new managing director of the California-headquartered…
WhatsApp Wants To Be A Business Platform
Allowing video calls on WhatsApp, which is otherwise a simple messaging app owned by Facebook, was the last big feature launched before it starts making money. Knowing the phone number and device of use is enough, says Sanchit Vir Gogia,…
Tata Elxsi Plans To Drive Growth Through Acquisitions
Engineering and industrial design services provider Tata Elxsi, a Tata Group company, plans to buy smaller companies in areas such automotive, media and healthcare, helping it grow business faster. The over Rs1,000 crore company has built capabilities to provide niche…
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Reliance Plans To Take On India’s IT Giants With Its Software Biz Foray
Reliance Industries is gearing up to enter the software services business and plans to take on India's IT giants, as the energy-to-telecom conglomerate taps the growing potential of the industrial internet. "If Jio is providing the connectivity and Reliance is…
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Infosys Invests Rs 14.5 Crore In Danish Artificial Intelligence Start-up
Bangalore-based Infosys on Friday announced that it has invested Rs 14.5 crore (DKK 14,920,000) in a Danish-based artificial intelligence start-up UNSILO. The investment is done through Infosys innovation fund. “Directionally this is a brilliant investment given the fact a lot…
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Demonetisation: How Infoscions Are Coping With Change
When Vishal Sikka took over as the first non-founder CEO of Infosys, amongst the half-a-dozen initiatives he undertook there was one that went unnoticed. Employee identification cards were tweaked and a new technology-enabled facility was incorporated into the ‘dog tag’…
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Wipro Begins Monetising From Its Intra-preneurship Projects
India's third largest IT firm Wipro has begun offering solutions to customers from entrepreneurial projects of its employees in segments such as corporate treasury and software defined infrastructure. "I will not be surprised if monetization has already happened in Wipro…
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Leading With Digital – Why This Transformation Matters For Traditional Orgs and Its CXOs
In today’s time, while leading with Digital is evident, who owns this transformation still remains a bone of contention. This journey needs to be co-owned by those who will be impacted first – the CXOs. Having said that, the starting point…
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Back To Basics? BlackBerry Looks At Enterprise Tie-Ups To Sell Phones
If you are not interested in a BlackBerry phone, we would not be surprised because the company has lost his recall value. Its brand recall value also took a hit when it launched the Blackberry Priv earlier this year at…
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Head Of Twitter India Quits, More Exits To Follow Him
Rishi Jaitly, Head of Twitter India, resigned and that was not surprising for most employees, who knew that the domestic market will also get effected by the micro-blogging site’s global restructuring programme, as the company failed to get new users…
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Exits Continue As Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Wants More Ad Revenue From India
The exits in Twitter’s senior management who helped build the India business over years, signal the company’s co-founder and new CEO, Jack Dorsey’s, inclination to make significant changes in the way the domestic business is handled. According to Greyhound Research,…
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Twitter India Head Quits, More Exits To Follow In Major Shake-Up
Rishi Jaitly’s resignation was not surprising for most Twitter India employees, who knew that the domestic market will be impacted by the micro-blogging site’s global restructuring programme, as the company failed to get new users and generate higher advertising revenue,…
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Twitter’s India Head Steps Down Amid Slowing Revenues, Job Cuts
Amid a global slowdown in revenue growth and job cuts, head of Twitter’s India business, Rishi Jaitly, announced his exit from the company after a four-year stint. Sanchit Vir Gogia, Chief Analyst and CEO of Greyhound Research, said both the…
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Google’s New Cloud Region Will Take Competition In The Indian Cloud Market A Notch Higher
According to recent reports from IT research firms, the Indian public cloud market is expected to cross $1 B in 2016 and grow three folds by 2020. It’s a huge opportunity for global cloud service providers as well as local…
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IBM Thinks Watson In Cognitive Mode
The technology platform, Watson, does hold a lot of potential for solving customer problems through its advanced analytics capabilities. But it needs to work in tandem with end-user organisations and may be a long way from commercial success in India…
Paytm Goes After Insurance – To Cover Auto, Cab Drivers
India’s largest digital payments company, Paytm, through its mobile wallets is looking at ways to revolutionise India’s insurance business. It has launched a program to offer health insurance to auto and cab drivers – 300,000 of them – who use…
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Infy Exits Show Challenge For Sikka In Biz Makeover
The exit of Sanjay Purohit, the seventh key executive to quit Infosys, shows the challenges its first non-founder chief executive Vishal Sikka is facing. Sikka, a former board member at business software company SAP AG, has been trying to push…
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MNCs Put Indian Data Centres On Cloud Nine
In a move that should worry local providers, large multinationals, including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft and IBM, have announced the launch of data centre facilities in India over the last year to capture the thriving local cloud computing demand.…