Vodafone May Extend IBM Contract To Cover Idea Too 

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Sanchit Vir Gogia & Anshoo Nandwaani on GSMA AMO Awards 2017 Judging Panel

Sanchit Vir Gogia, Chief Analyst and CEO Greyhound Research & Anshoo Nandwaani, VP and Principal Analyst, Greyhound Research are part of the esteemed judging panel of GSMA Asia Mobile Awards 2017 or AMO Awards 2017. About Asia Mobile Awards 2017 The…

Sanchit Vir Gogia on GSMA Glomo Awards 2017 Judging Panel

Sanchit Vir Gogia, Chief analyst and CEO Greyhound Research is a part of the esteemed judging panel of the GSMA Glomo Awards 2017. About GSMA’s Global Mobile Awards (or Glomo Awards)  The GSMA’s Global Mobile Awards offer organisations across the global mobile…

The Dealmaker – TechMahindra

When Vineet Nayyar joined Tech Mahindra (called Mahindra British Telecom), it was a mere $110-million company. Today, it has revenues close to $3.9 billion, and is the second biggest company in the Mahindra Group with a share of 23 per…

VMware looks to thrive under Dell

Virtualisation software maker VMware expects the takeover of its parent, EMC Corp, by Dell to help it make inroads into the small and medium enterprises and businesses market in India, where the US technology giant has a large presence. Experts…

Why are Indian Telcos resorting to offer insurance cover?

After Telenor, Sistema Shyam Teleservices (SSTL), which runs under the brand MTS, is all set to provide insurance cover to its data subscribers. For the first time, with Telenor, a telecom operator has started offering life insurance to its new and existing customers, with…

Vodafone in talks with IBM to renew ₹6600 Cr outsourcing contract

Vodafone India has started talks with software major IBM for renewal of a $1 billion (Rs 6,600 crore) outsourcing contract that is set to expire in June 2016, while also sounding out Wipro, Tata Consultancy Services, Infosys and Tech Mahindra,…

Blackstone buys Serco BPO operations for £250 million

Private equity firm Blackstone has acquired a majority stake in Serco’s BPO operations for £250 million (₹2,558 crore). This is the largest such deal for Blackstone in India. The sale does not include the UK business of Serco Global Services,…

How Vodafone, RCom, Aircel & MTS use Big Data, analytics to reduce customer churn and increase ARPUs

Telecom operators including Vodafone, Reliance Communications, Aircel and MTS India are investing in technologies such as big data and analytics amid growth in data consumption as they look to retain subscribers and increase revenue per user. Analytics allow telecom companies…

#GreyhoundCorridors: Why We Matter To The IT Analyst Landscape – An Update From Greyhound Research

Recently, Greyhound Research has been recognised by a senior Analyst Relations professional, Dave Noble, as one of the upcoming Analyst firms.  While this recognition is surely a feather in our cap and we are humbled on Dave’s decision to include us in…

Renewable Energy: It’s Not Just About Cost Savings

With enhanced technological advances and constantly depleting natural resources, there is an increasing need for companies to factor in alternative energy resources while not just devising new industry solutions, but also in planning organization’s sustainable future. Enterprises are now seeing the…

Challenges for Building a Green Data Center

As CIOs reel under pressure to cut operational costs and scale up the IT infrastructure to meet the growing business needs, there is a heightened focus on taming the energy-hungry datacenters Datacenters are at the center of businesses today as…

$130-b Software Sector Braces For Currency Correction

After TCS and Mindtree set the alarm bells ringing with their cautionary outlook, exporters in the $130-billion sector are bracing for currency volatility, as global currencies have depreciated sharply against the dollar in the recent past. The slowdown can also…

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…

Greyhound Radio with Sanchit Vir Gogia on Union Budget 2015

Sanchit Vir Gogia, Chief Analyst, Greyhound Research says that announcements made in Budget 2014 have remained mere aspirations with lack of clarity on policies with regard to Digital India, uncertainty over the Rs 10,000 crore start-up fund for MSMEs, as…

With IT Companies The King Of Good Times, Clients Want To Be Prince

Indian companies are asking their information technology vendors to pass on the benefits of automation and improving technology in the form of rate cuts and outcome-based pricing, highlighting the need for Indian IT players to speed their move away from…

Big Local Tech Buyers Push IT Vendors For Rate Cuts

Indian companies are asking their information technology vendors to pass on the benefits of automation and improving technology in the form of rate cuts and outcome-based pricing, highlighting the need for Indian IT players to speed their move away from…

#GreyhoundInMedia: Bharti Airtel (@airtelindia) scraps Loop Mobile merger deal #Press #Media @Livemint

Bharti Airtel had planned to buy Loop’s assets in February, but the deal did not get regulatory approvals. Bharti Airtel Ltd abandoned its `700 crore plan to buy Loop Telecom for its Mumbai operations after the country’s largest telecom operator failed to…

Tech Mahindra Q2 Net at Rs 719.7 cr

Country’s fifth largest software services firm Tech Mahindra on Wednesday posted a marginal rise in net profit at Rs 719.7 crore for the quarter ended September 2014 on the back of growth in manufacturing and telecom verticals. “With a quarter-on-quarter…

Tech Mahindra Q2 Net at Rs 719.7 cr

Country’s fifth largest software services firm Tech Mahindra on Wednesday posted a marginal rise in net profit at Rs 719.7 crore for the quarter ended September 2014 on the back of growth in manufacturing and telecom verticals. “With a quarter-on-quarter…

Tech Mahindra Q2 Net at Rs 719.7 cr

Country’s fifth largest software services firm Tech Mahindra on Wednesday posted a marginal rise in net profit at Rs 719.7 crore for the quarter ended September 2014 on the back of growth in manufacturing and telecom verticals. “With a quarter-on-quarter…

Tech Mahindra Q2 Net at Rs 719.7 cr @the_hindu

Country’s fifth largest software services firm Tech Mahindra on Wednesday posted a marginal rise in net profit at Rs 719.7 crore for the quarter ended September 2014 on the back of growth in manufacturing and telecom verticals. “With a quarter-on-quarter…

Tech Mahindra Q2 revenue grows by 15 per cent, to Rs 5,487 crore @BT_India

Country’s fifth largest software services firm Tech Mahindra today posted a marginal rise in net profit at Rs 719.7 crore for the quarter ended September 2014 on the back of growth in manufacturing and telecom verticals. “With a quarter-on-quarter revenue growth…

Tech Mahindra Q2 Net at Rs 719.7 cr @zeenews

Country’s fifth largest software services firm Tech Mahindra today posted a marginal rise in net profit at Rs 719.7 crore for the quarter ended September 2014 on the back of growth in manufacturing and telecom verticals. “With a quarter-on-quarter revenue growth…

Tech Mahindra Q2 Net at Rs 719.7 Cr @bsindia

Country's fifth largest software services firm Tech Mahindra today posted a marginal rise in net profit at Rs 719.7 crore for the quarter ended September 2014 on the back of growth in manufacturing and telecom verticals. "With a quarter-on-quarter revenue growth…

#GreyhoundInMedia: Back From The Brink #Press #Media #BusinessWorld

BlackBerry is attempting to regain lost ground. And, it is looking beyond devices to do so In 2013, almost everything that could go wrong was going wrong for BlackBerry. The Waterloo, Canada-based company was seeing a steady slide in its…

#GreyhoundInMedia: Huawei enters IT services with telecom projects #Press #Media #HinduBusinessLine

Telecom networking giant Huawei has entered IT services, a shift from its hardware-focussed strategy which will eat into the marketshare of Indian software exporters, especially in telecom-related projects. Huawei started off making telecom equipments such as routers and switches for…

#GreyhoundInMedia: 马恒达科技公司第一季度利润下降 8% #Press #Media #Cailiao

马恒达科技公司,印度第五大软件服务公司,表示第一财季盈利下降8%,错过分析师的预期,较高的签证和雇佣成本。净利润下降至631亿卢比,在三个月截止六月三十日,从去年同期的686亿卢比,该公司周四表示。利润从之前三个月上涨了2.7%。马恒达科技公司的营收同比增长24.8%,至5122亿卢比。41个调查的分析师预计收入为5078.3亿卢比,而38个分析师预计净利润为680.4亿卢比,在6月的季度。以美元计算,收入上升18.1%,至8.55亿第二季,从上一季度的3.63%。   该公司将专注于数字化的举措和物联网,所谓的互联网,并增加其在西亚,墨西哥和巴西,董事总经理兼行政总裁,CP Gurnani说。“虽然该公司已经扩增其意图,是一个新时代的系统集成和服务的数字机遇,新交易的收入仍偏向传统业务线,”首席分析师和研究公司的首席执行官,Sanchit Vir Gogia说 。 To read the Full Article, click here: Cailiao

Tech Mahindra Q1 profit falls 8% to Rs631 crore

Revenue rose 24.8% to Rs.5,122 core in the June quarter, as compared with Rs.4,103 crore in the year-ago period. Tech Mahindra Ltd, India’s fifth-largest software services company, said fiscal first-quarter profit fell 8%, missing analysts estimates, on higher visa and hiring…

#GreyhoundInMedia: Enterprise Major Oracle Plans One Office in Every State Capital As It Sees Higher Tech Spending #Press #Media #CommunicationsToday

Oracle is looking to have branch offices in all Indian state capitals as part of its plan to boost business while some of its larger competitors deal with problems of their own. Oracle, founded by technology billionaire Larry Ellison, counts companies…