Nasscom-Kearney study on IT-BPO industry identifies small cities with big potential
Nasscom or National Association of Software and Services Companies, the consortium that serves as the apex body of the Indian IT software and BPO industry, together with global management consulting firm AT Kearney has released a comprehensive assessment report of 50 locations in India suitable for the IT - BPO industry titled 'Location Roadmap For IT- BPO Growth: Assessment Of 50 Leading Cities.' More..
IT industry expects 50 per cent growth in the next two years: D&B
Mumbai : Dun & Bradstreet, a leading provider of global business information, knowledge and insight, has released its study on 'India's Top IT Companies 2008'. More..
Kerala CM to inaugurate L&T Tech Park at Kochi
Kerala Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan will inaugurate ‘Tejomaya' – Phase I project of L&T Tech Park and will also launch the work for its proposed phase II project – ‘Signature Tower'. Both the projects are located in the Infopark More..
Indian companies looking at expanding overseas
At present Indian clients contribute 40 per cent to PWC's overall revenues earned by its advisory services while non-advisory revenues from Indian and overseas billing are split around 50:50.Doubling of revenues would also mean an increase in PwC's manpower strength in India More..
Smart City director
board approves marketing plan
KOCHI: The first director board meeting of Smart City
Kochi, a self-sustained industry township for knowledge-based
industries, was held here on Thursday.Chief Minister V.S.
Achuthanandan laid the foundation stone for the multi-crore
project, promoted jointly by Dubai-based Tecom and the
State government, at Kakkanad on November 16. More..
Abdullatif Almulla appointed Vice Chairman of SmartCity
Abdullatif Almulla, CEO of TECOM Investments, has been
appointed as Chairman of SmartCity Kochi, a self sustained
knowledge-based industry township being developed in Cochin,
the commercial capital of Kerala. The project, which is
jointly promoted by TECOM Investments More..
Stone laid for Smart City project
The Smart City project, on which Kerala has glued its
IT development dreams and foreign-investment hopes, took
the first step towards realisation when Chief Minister
V.S. Achuthanandan laid the foundation stone on Friday. More..
SmartCity finally takes off
Three years after Dubai-based TECOM approached Kerala
government with the proposal to build a knowledge industry
hub in Kochi, chief minister VS Achuthanandan on Friday
unveiled the plaque for SmartCity. The Rs1,700-crore project
aims to generate as many as 90,000 jobs and build 88lakh
square feet of office space in three phases spanning ten
years. More..
Kerala expects
$2 b investment in IT parks
Kerala is expecting an investment of over $2 billion for
setting up infrastructure in the IT-ITES sector in the
next couple of years. This new investment will basically
be for establishing IT parks — both government and
private projects. More..
IBS
opens new campus
As a major step towards realising its goal of becoming
a Rs 1,000-crore company by year 2010, Thiruvananthapuram-based
IBS Software Services has kicked off operations at the
first phase of its fully-owned campus at Technopark. More..
Kerala IT sector to get big boost
Information technology infrastructure in Kerala will witness
tremendous growth in the next three years, Chief Minister
V S Achuthanandan said here yesterday. “Several
projects, both the government and private initiatives,
are coming up throughout the state,” he said while
inaugurating the new 450,000-sq. More..
Small cities emerging
as new IT hubs
Metros are the nerve centres of India. Wide roads, tall
buildings, 24x7 power and water supplies, great lifestyle
— few can resist the trappings of a big city like
Mumbai or Bangalore. They attract MNCs and labourers alike.
But not everybody is being lured by the city lights. More..
India's Communists Courting IT Companies
A communist-run state in India wants to cash in on the
country's lucrative and ever-expanding technology boom.
Raymond Thibodeaux reports from Thiruvananthapuram, better
known by its anglicized name, Trivandrum, the capital
of Kerala State on the southwestern tip of India. More..
Stone for Smartcity likely to be laid
The foundation stone for the Smartcity IT
park in Kochi is expected to be laid this
month as the basic works are progressing well, Kerala
Chief Minister V S Achuthanandan said on Tuesday.The
Dubai-based promoter of the joint venture, TECOM,
had informed the government that it had begun work
on the blueprint of the project, Achuthanandan told
the state assembly. More..
Kerala-based IT firm IBS Software Services Thursday announced
its decision to set up a 'global centre of operations'
in Hong Kong. It will be the 10th international
centre of the company, which has its headquarters at the
Technopark here. More..
Rising rupee: IT, BPO employees may have to
work on Saturdays.
The appreciation of the Indian rupee against some currencies,
especially the US dollar, has come as good news for many,
but for those in the BPO and IT sector, it is means no
more Saturday night partying.
Several IT and BPO firms in Bangalore have decided that
their employees will have to work on Saturdays too in
order to counter the negative impact of the appreciating
rupee. More..
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