Panache Digilife to make laptops under PLI scheme, target WfH

Mumbai-based up-and-coming IT hardware manufacturer Panache Digilife said it intends to manufacture laptops and all-in-one PCs to target the consumer market, under the government of India’s production-linked incentive scheme. The company had qualified for receiving benefits under the PLI scheme last week, along with 13 others including Foxconn, Wistron, Dell, ICT, Dixon Technologies and Lava […]

BPO provider HGS rides COVID wave to record profit

Hinduja Global Solutions, one of India’s top pure-play business process outsourcing companies, has been able to turn the massive challenge posed by COVID lock-down restrictions into an opportunity, posting record profits for the year. Like many organizations that depend on thousands of staff working inside a single building, Hinduja Global Solutions found its working model […]

Lockdown blues spells boon for matrimony sites

COVID-19 season has failed to make any dent in the growth of India’s matchmaking websites such as Matrimony.com, the largest. Going by the numbers, youngsters in the country seem to be finding more time for online matching making services during the COVID-19 era than ever before. In a year when most companies have seen double-digit […]

TCS employees stay put amid pandemic uncertainties

Tata Consultancy Services, the largest India-based provider of IT and outsourcing services, reported its lowest ever IT employee churn numbers even as the world grappled with economic uncertainties caused by a pandemic. For the year ended March, the company lost just 7.2% of its employees. Typically, IT companies see attrition levels of nearly double that. […]

ArcelorMittal is Infosys’ new client

Outsourced services provider Infosys today bagged a major client in the form of ArcelorMittal, the world’s leading steel and mining company. ArcelorMittal is a Luxembourgish multinational steel manufacturing corporation headquartered in Luxembourg City. It was formed in 2006 from the takeover and merger of Arcelor by Indian-owned Mittal Steel and is the world’s largest steel […]

Wipro extends deal with Telefonica/O2 with 5G focus

Indian IT services provider Wipro Ltd said it has refreshed its 15-year engagement with Telefonica Germany with a focus on enabling new services in the 5G era. The program “will ensure that Telefónica Germany / O2 is well positioned to modernise and launch a range of new offerings including 5G products and services,” the Indian […]

HCL Tech wins digital workspace order from Airbus

HCL Technologies (HCL), one of India’s top IT services and outsourcing providers, said it has won a five-year deal to implement a digital workplace solution for the world’s largest aircraft maker Airbus. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed. Airbus is emerging as the biggest aircraft maker in the world after its long-time rival […]

Signal messenger down after heavy rush in India, US & Europe

Signal, the open source messaging platform, has become extremely slow and even unresponsive in several parts of India after a sudden rush of new users looking for a more secure alternative to WhatsApp. Global interest in Signal app has jumped by around 50 times since WhatsApp announced changes to its terms of use last week. […]

Wipro in billion-dollar deal with Germany’s Metro AG

IT and outsourcing major Wipro said it will take over the IT division of Germany-based wholesaler Metro AG in a deal that is expected to generate revenue of over Rs 1,000 cr per year for the Indian company. A total of more than 1,300 IT staff from Germany, Romania and India belonging to the wholesaler […]

5G could spell bonanza for TechM, Wipro, TCS & Infy

A move away from traditional equipment vendors such as Ericsson and Huawei by telecom operators could open up a multi-billion dollar market for the likes of Tech Mahindra, Wipro, HCL Technologies, TCS and Infosys. Traditionally, telecom operators like Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea have almost completely outsourced the construction and management of their networks to […]

L&T Tech wins Rs 750 cr order from US oil & gas giant

L&T Technology Services, a provider of consulting and outsourced services in the engineering field, said it won a $100 million (Rs 750 cr) contract from a major US oil and gas company. L&T Tech will be the US company’s primary engineering partner to support two of their integrated refining and chemicals manufacturing facilities in USA, […]

L&T Tech certified to Alexa-enable devices

L&T Technology Services has been certified by Amazon to put Alexa voice technology into all kinds of devices. Alexa is a voice-interaction technology developed by Amazon, and is quickly emerging as one of the leading standards of voice-based interaction for devices. While it started out as a way to interact with Amazon devices such as […]

Wipro to eliminate divisions, simplify structure

Outsourcing major Wipro Ltd said it will replace the current way in which it has structured its business by reorienting it along two core themes — product-related services, and infrastructure-related services. Earlier, Wipro used to divide its services into seven verticals and five capabilities. The seven verticals included segments like manufacturing, telecom, consumer products, financial […]

OnePlus sales double on Nord 5G demand

OnePlus, the premium smartphone brand from Chinese manufacturer BBK Electronics, saw its India sales double during the third quarter (July to September), thanks to the launch of India’s cheapest 5G smartphone, OnePlus Nord. The phone, priced at around Rs 28,000, helped the brand double its sales in India with a growth of 104% during July-September […]

Tech Mahindra invests $3 mn in fast-growing US tele-medicine startup

Tech Mahindra, one of India’s to six IT service providers, said it has invested $3 million, around Rs 23 cr, in a fast-growing tele-medicine start-up based in Plano, Texas. The Indian company, which gets a 6% stake in exchange for the investment, has an option of raising its stake to 14% by January 2021 by […]

Google to block ads on ‘unapproved languages’ from Nov

Google has announced that starting from November, it will stop serving ads under its various networks and platforms for all web pages and apps that are not in the list of 49 approved languages. The list of 49 approved languages includes eight Indian languages — Tamil, Kannada, Hindi, Telugu, Malayalam, Bengali, Gujarati and Marathi. The […]

TikTok’s case against India ban dismissed – Govt

The case filed by TikTok against its ban in India has been dismissed by the High Court of Telangana, the central government informed the Rajya Sabha today. “Tiktok had approached Honorable High Court of Telangana on 20.07.2020 challenging the ban imposed by the Government of India. The court after detailed hearing disposed the matter in […]

No security audit done on Chinese smartphones- IT ministry

Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Government of India, today clarified that it has not conducted any sort of study to check if Chinese-made smartphones used in India are sending sensitive data to their country of origin. “Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has not conducted any such study,” said Minister of State Sanjay […]

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