IT Companies Now Generate Higher Revenue From Fixed Price Contracts

The $120-billion information technology industry now generates almost half of its revenue from fixed price contracts. While this indicates the rising comfort of overseas clients in dealing with Indian software providers, industry watchers feel that the trend may result in…

IT Companies Now Generate Higher Revenue From Fixed Price Contracts

The USD 120-billion information technology industry now generates almost half of its revenue from fixed price contracts. While this indicates the rising comfort of overseas clients in dealing with Indian software providers, industry watchers feel that the trend may result…

Small Gets A Firm Start

The $146 billion Indian information technology (IT) industry found the right space of recognition in the Union Budget for 2015-16 with finance minister Arun Jaitley applauding the role played by over 3,000 start-ups, a segment which is expected to be…

Budget 2015: The Tech Industry Reacts

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Saturday announced the Union Budget for 2015, and the new budget comes with a number of benefits for technology companies. The public might not be so happy to see the rate for service tax inch…

Budget 2015: Start-Ups Get A Tech Boost

If the big idea of Budget 2014, announced on 10 July, was clearly start-ups, the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance government took it a step further by announcing on Saturday an allocation of Rs.1,000 crore to enable information technology…

Budget 2015: Here’s What IT Industry Wants From You, Mr. Jaitley

The Modi-led Government will present its first full Union Budget on February 28. With the promise that the new government would put technology in the forefront, the Indian IT industry has pinned hopes on the Modi government to push reforms…

Infosys To Buy US Automation Tech Firm Panaya For $200 MN

In keeping with its new chief executive officer, Vishal Sikka’s vision of being more digital and introducing more automation, India’s second-largest software services exporter Infosys Ltd said on Monday it will buy automation technology company Panaya Inc. for about $200…

IT Industry May See Muted Growth In Fiscal 2016

The $118-billion Indian information technology (IT) industry could see muted growth in the fiscal year ending March 2016, even lower than the 13-15% growth that software lobby Nasscom forecast for the current fiscal as most businesses keep a wary eye…

Nasscom Sees Flattish Export Growth Next Fiscal At 12-14 Per Cent

The National Association for Software and Services Companies expects Indian IT exports to grow 12-14% in FY16, after the industry marginally missed its growth forecast for the current financial year. The projected growth is slower than last year, raising concerns on…

IT Industry May See Muted Growth In Fiscal 2016

The $118-billion Indian information technology (IT) industry could see muted growth in the fiscal year ending March 2016, even lower than the 13-15% growth that software lobby Nasscom forecast for the current fiscal as most businesses keep a wary eye…

Indian IT Industry Mood Lifts on Totalisation Pact

With the resumption of the discussions on Social Security Agreement and Bilateral Investment Agreement finding pride of place in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's announcements at the joint press meet with visiting US president Barack Obama, the country’s IT sector is…

The days of ‘big bang’ hiring by IT firms may be over

‘Trespassers will be recruited,’ an adage that defined the hiring needs of India’s $120-billion IT services space in the last decade may no longer hold true. All indications are that frontline companies may hire fewer staffers going forward as they bring…

Mindtree Q3 profit up 58.5%, beats market expectations

Software services company Mindtree Ltd said on Monday that its third quarter net profit rose about 58.5%, beating market expectations, helped by higher revenue from its banking, financial services and insurance, and retail, consumer packaged goods and manufacturing clients. Net…

Mindtree Q3 profit up 58.5%, beats market expectations

Software services company Mindtree Ltd said on Monday that its third quarter net profit rose about 58.5%, beating market expectations, helped by higher revenue from its banking, financial services and insurance, and retail, consumer packaged goods and manufacturing clients. Net…

Mindtree buys US firm Discoverture for $15 m

Mindtree has reported good third quarter profits and is confident that it will beat the upper band of Nasscom’s 13-15 per cent guidance for this financial year. The Bengaluru-based mid-size company posted a net profit of 140.8 crore in the…

#GreyhoundInMedia: Google, Microsoft, IBM trying to lure startups with goodies #Press #Media #EconomicTimes

Google, Microsoft and IBM are trying to lure startups with lakhs of rupees worth of goodies in order to compete with Amazon, which is larger than all its competitors combined in the cloud computing space. With such offers, cloud vendors…

#GreyhoundInMedia: Asia-Pacific, Middle East new focus areas for IT services firms #Press #Media #Mint

Indian software services exporters have begun sharpening their focus on countries like Japan, China, Malaysia, Australia and those in the Middle East, given the growth potential of these markets. Sanchit Vir Gogia, chief analyst and chief executive of Greyhound Research,…

#GreyhoundInMedia: Wipro likely to beat Nasscom’s growth estimates this fiscal, say analysts #Press #Media #CommunicationsToday

Despite a tepid guidance for the first quarter of this year, fuelled by multi-million dollar deals in the past few months, Wipro is expected to beat Nasscom’s 13-15 per cent growth estimates for the 2015 fiscal. Analysts believe that on the…

#GreyhoundInMedia: TCS Continues To Outpace Infosys, Revenue Gap Widens To Rs 33,313 Cr #Press #Media #CommunicationsToday

India's largest IT services exporter, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), has been outperforming its peers consistently and the gap with its rivals is continuing to widen. For instance, in FY10, the revenue difference between TCS and Infosys was Rs 7,559 crore,…

#GreyhoundInMedia: TCS Continues To Outpace Infosys, Revenue Gap Widens To Rs 33,313 Cr #Press #Media #FinancialExpress

India's largest IT services exporter, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), has been outperforming its peers consistently and the gap with its rivals is continuing to widen. For instance, in FY10, the revenue difference between TCS and Infosys was Rs 7,559 crore,…

#GreyhoundInMedia: Wipro likely to beat Nasscom’s growth estimates this fiscal, say analysts #Press #Media #HinduBusinessLine

Despite a tepid guidance for the first quarter of this year, fuelled by multi-million dollar deals in the past few months, Wipro is expected to beat Nasscom’s 13-15 per cent growth estimates for the 2015 fiscal. Sanchit Vir Gogia of…

#GreyhoundInMedia: e-gov projects offer Rs25,000 cr rev opportunity #Press #Media #EGov

With the new government pushing for e-governance, government agencies have once again begun floating online tenders for information and communications technology (ICT) projects, a move that may give the domestic information technology (IT) market a much-needed fillip, according to a…

#GreyhoundInMedia: Govt bodies float e-tenders for ICT projects #Press #Media #Mint

The revenue opportunity from these projects could be as large as Rs.25,000 cr over the next few years. With the new government pushing for e-governance, government agencies have once again begun floating online tenders for information and communications technology (ICT) projects, a…

#GreyhoundInMedia: Tech push by railways a billion dollar opportunity for IT firms #Press #Media #Mint

The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government’s first railway budget, which envisages implementing Internet connectivity at stations and in trains, digitizing land records, integrating all its computer systems and achieving a paperless office in five years, has thrown up a billion…

#GreyhoundInMedia: HP plans to double retail presence to 1,200 cities #Press #Media #TheTimesOfIndia

When the Uttar Pradesh government announced a plan to distribute to laptops to students in the state last year, it was a shot in the arm for HP, the company that won the nearly Rs 2,800 crore contract to provide…

#GreyhoundInMedia: HP plans to double retail presence to 1,200 cities #Press #Media #EconomicTimes

When the Uttar Pradesh government announced a plan to distribute to laptops to students in the state last year, it was a shot in the arm for HP, the company that won the nearly Rs 2,800 crore contract to provide…