SmartCity Agreement: Initially, the Dubai Internet City invested over $400 million in Smart City. It is a joint venture between Tecom and Sama Dubai. Smart City is in a vast, 1,000 acres (4.0 km2) of land on the outskirts of Kochi, where the state government has set up the Infopark. According to the agreement signed with the Government of Kerala, the park, on completion, must have 8.8 million sq ft of built up space with a minimum of 6.2 million sq ft for IT. Spread over 246 acres (1.00 km2), SmartCity Kochi would become one of the largest IT parks in the country.

SmartCity waits for SEZ Board clearance

The concept master plan of the SmartCity project was approved by the directors' board the other day in Thiruvananthapuram. The project is now awaiting clearance from the Special Economic Zone Board of Approval for starting construction of building More

Master plan for SmartCity project being readied

The concept master plan for the entire 246 acres earmarked for the proposed SmartCity Kochi project will be ready in three weeks, Baju George, managing director of SmartCity (India) has said. Talking to The Hindu on Tuesday, Mr. George said that p More

Three more weeks needed to complete pavilion

The construction work of the pavilion of the much anticipated project - Smart City Kochi (SCK) would take another three more weeks for completion, said MD Baju George. “Though the initial plan was to complete the work within sixteen weeks fr More

Infopark has ambitious plans to become one of the major IT Parks in the country. With this vision, it has been growing fast ever since its inception in 2004, and within a short period of time, has attracted investments from IT majors like Tata Consultancy Services, Wipro, Affiliated Computer Services, OPI Global, IBS Software Services and US Technology. Because of the fast growth rate achieved and strategic positioning of the Park in the upcoming city of Kochi (previously known as Cochin), Infopark is well known among the IT/ITES investors as a very potential destination.

Arbitron expands Kochi facility

Arbitron Inc, an international media and marketing research firm, has expanded its facilities to increase the scale of India operations. The company has opened a new facility in the Tejomaya building off L&T Techpark, located in Infopark, Koch More

Work on Infopark second phase progressing

Buoyed by its turnover during the previous financial year, Infopark Kochi is making steady progress with the preliminary work of its second phase being developed on 160-odd acres in Kunnathunadu and Puthencruz villages. The piling work ahead of th More

EXL Services lifts UST Global’s GOAL 2012 for Infopark Companies

In the closely fought finals played on Sunday, EXL Services won over ACS, a Xerox Company, by 3-2 to lift GOAL 2012, the first edition of the football tournament organised by UST Global for companies based in Infopark, Kochi. The success of GOAL, More

Spread over nearly 300 acres with 2.1 million sq. ft. of built-up space available currently, Technopark hosts over 110 IT and ITES companies employing over 13,000 IT professionals, including one PCMM level 5 company, 6 CMMI level 5 and four CMM Level 3 and over 15 ISO 9001 certified companies.

Technopark is currently on an expansion mode by adding another 92 acres as Technopark-Phase III expansion and 450 acres as Technocity-- an integrated IT township and nearly 40 acres of land is developed for setting up Technopark - Kollam at Kundara.

Enterprise Mobile Apps Provider Andare Acquired By UST Global

US-based enterprise mobile applications and CRM provider Andare has been acquired by UST Global, a major provider of services and solutions for Global 1000 and Fortune 500 enterprises. However, the deal value is not immediately known. The acquisition More

Hitachi NeST Control Systems eyes NTPC's thermal power projects

Bangalore-based Hitachi NeST Control Systems (HNC) is eyeing four of NTPC's thermal power projects for supply of advanced control systems.The newly-formed company is a 70-30 joint venture between Japanese major Hitachi, and Kochi-based SFO Technol More

ITC Infotech in Technopark

ITC Infotech, a $7-billion global IT services company and a fully-owned subsidiary of ITC Ltd , is setting up its office in Technopark Thiruvananthapuram,Kerala.ITC Infotech delivers end-to-end IT solutions and services to its customers worldwide. More

Kerala plans recruitment for Gulf through state agency

The government of Kerala in India plans to channel the recruitment of skilled workers from the state to the UAE and other Gulf countries through a company owned by the state labour ministry. The nearly defunct Overseas Development and Employment P More

Nirmal Info Park launches IT park in kakkanad, Kochi

The Nirmal Info Park (India) Limited is offers space for corporates and investors with its inspiring ambience that offers a one stop solution to all your space and allied needs related to IT, ITES, Communication, Entertainment, Biotechnology and d More

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