Obama’s tax proposals won’t affect Indian firms: HCL chief

February 9th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Satyam Computer Services scam is 'just a case in isolation' and it would not affect the image of India's IT industry, a Singapore diplomat said here Tuesday. 'What happened to Satyam came as a surprise and shock, but we are pleased at the speed of the Indian government that has replaced the board with very credible and highly respected individuals,' Tommy Koh, ambassador-at-large at Singapore's ministry of foreign affairs, said.

May 8th, 2009 BANGALORE - Indian IT firms would not be impacted by the tax reform proposal of US President Barak Obama, Infosys Technologies chairman and chief mentor N.R. Narayana Murthy told President Pratibha Devisinh Patil Friday.

January 20th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The government has taken no view on the proposals from domestic and international companies to buy the fraud-hit Satyam Computer Services and left the decision to its new board, Corporate Affairs Minister Prem Chand Gupta has said. 'There are many corporate houses, they are interested,' Gupta told reporters on being asked if the government was interested in hiving off the beleaguered firm to engineering and construction giant Larsen and Toubro.

January 11th, 2009 CHENNAI - Perhaps for the first time in the Indian corporate history, an audit firm - and a foreign one at that - is being dumped midway by a company. The government-appointed new board for Satyam Computer Services has declared that the fraud-hit IT bellwether will have a new audit firm to restate the books of accounts.

May 5th, 2009 NEW DELHI - India Inc believes the move by the Barack Obama administration to reduce tax breaks for US firms that ship jobs overseas will hit American companies more than impact on the Indian outsourcing industry. 'It's a more US-US issue rather than one aimed at stopping outsourcing, or off-shoring, or anything to do with India,' said Som Mittal, president of the National Association of Software and Service Companies (Nasscom), a representative boddy for the industry.

January 12th, 2009 SINGAPORE/MANILA - With a billion dollar revenue fraud dealing the Indian IT sector a body blow, BPO firms in the Philippines are hoping to make capital by getting some of the business from the West. Leading politician Representative Joseph Santiago said the unravelling of the massive revenue fraud at Satyam Computer Services would dissuade multinational companies from seeking BPO services in India.

January 11th, 2009 SINGAPORE/MANILA - With a billion dollar revenue fraud dealing the Indian IT sector a body blow, BPO firms in the Philippines are hoping to make capital by getting some of the business from the West. Leading politician Representative Joseph Santiago said the unravelling of the massive revenue fraud at Satyam Computer Services would dissuade multinational companies from seeking BPO services in India.

January 14th, 2009 MUMBAI - India's outsourcing firms were jolted Thursday after Canada-based Nortel Networks, one of North America's largest telecom equipment firms and a key client for many IT firms in this country, filed for bankruptcy. Among the biggies of Indian outsourcing firms that are expected to bear the heat of the development are Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Wipro, Infosys and Sasken Communication Technologies, industry sources said.

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January 19th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The IT bellwether Satyam Computer Services, embroiled in a Rs.70 billion ($1.7 billion) financial scam, has received buyout offers from both domestic and foreign firms, its new board member Tarun Das said Tuesday. 'Satyam has got enormous fixed, human resources and technology assets.

January 18th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The government Monday ordered a probe into possible 'nexus' between the fraud-hit Satyam Computer Services and its tainted founder B. Ramalinga Raju's two family-run firms Maytas Properties and Maytas Infrastructure.

June 23rd, 2009 Indian outsourcer Mahindra Satyam gets new CEOMUMBAI, India — Mahindra Satyam, a rebranded Indian outsourcing company nearly brought down in a $1 billion fraud, said Tuesday that C.P. Gurnani, an executive from its new controlling shareholder, has been appointed chief executive.

February 3rd, 2009 HYDERABAD - The government-appointed directors of fraud-hit Satyam Computer Services Wednesday extended its meeting by a day. The board, which is meeting for the fifth time in three weeks, will continue its meeting Thursday.

December 3rd, 2005 Intel, world's largest chip maker, plans to make an investment of $1 billion for its Indian operations. The firm will spend $800m on boosting its research and development operation, with the rest of the cash being used to finance investment in firms.

February 2nd, 2009 HYDERABAD - The government-appointed directors of Satyam Computer Services will meet here Wednesday for the fifth time in three weeks to take forward their search for candidates for top positions and a strategic investor or outright buyer for the cash-starved company. The meeting is being held against the backdrop of reports that several major companies were exploring option of taking over Satyam, the country's fourth largest software exporter.