Tarang Software expanding India operations

June 6th, 2006 IBM is spending 6 billion USD in the next three years to extend and improve its Indian operations. In the last three years IBM has already spent 2 billion dollars in India.

March 24th, 2009 SCOTTSDALE - To effectively counter the challenges of India's rapid growth, JDA Software has outlined five key strategies to help companies establish an efficient, flexible supply chain and successfully address the operational challenges facing the country's expanding market. "To keep pace with India's growth rate, companies have been focused on building production capabilities, distribution networks and retail outlets resulting in complex supply chains with long lead times," said Stephen McNulty, regional vice president, Asia Pacific, JDA Software.

July 23rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Microsoft founder Bill Gates is in India to receive the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development. The award will be received on behalf of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which has been providing grants for public health activities, notably in the areas of HIV/AIDS prevention and communication.

June 11th, 2009 BANGALORE - BMC Software is well known as the leader in providing Business Service Management (BSM) solutions to the world's largest enterprises. For nearly a decade, BMC Software India has been contributing to the development of BMC's software products.

April 28th, 2009 HYDERABAD - Despite the economic slowdown, Wipro BPO, the business process outsourcing division of IT giant Wipro Technologies, is hiring personnel and expanding its operations globally, a top official said here Tuesday.'For the last six months, we have been hearing depressing news about people losing jobs and companies resorting to cost-cutting measures but we are still looking for people,' Wipro BPO head Ashutosh Vaidya told reporters. The company plans to expand its BPO facility in Hyderabad by recruiting 1,000 to 1,200 people over the next six to eight months, he said.

February 28th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Verizon Business, a global leader in communications and IT solutions, plans to offer direct connections to one of the world's largest global networks through its two international gateways in Mumbai and Chennai. This follows approval from the India government's Department of Telecommunications to operate these under its international long-distance license, the New Jersey based company announced Friday.

July 25th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Microsoft founder Bill Gates will receive the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development here today. The award will be received on behalf of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which has been providing grants for public health activities, notably in the areas of HIV/AIDS prevention and communication.

November 5th, 2006 I gave a presentation on IT entrepreneurship at National Institute of Technology Durgapur to MBA students and local entrepreneurs in summer of this year. The presentation was in my laptop which I finally got a chance to open today.

July 9th, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - Despite the global economic slowdown, software exports from Orissa grew by 39.05 percent in 2008-09 over the year before, officials said Thursday. The total IT exports of the state stood at Rs.1,168 crore last fiscal as against Rs.840 crore the year before, said Manas Panda, officer in charge of the Bhubaneswar unit of the Software Technology Park of India (STPI).

January 30th, 2007 In India several households and even companies are looking at PC's in the price range of Rs. 10,000 (~ 227 USD).

March 27th, 2009 THIRUVANANTHAPURAM - While India's overall software exports have slowed down on account of the global slowdown, those from Kerala grew 43.41 percent till February-end, fetching a revenue of Rs.2,300 crore. 'While the STPI (Software Technology Parks India) figures for the country show a growth of 17.62 percent till February-end this fiscal, software exports from Kerala have grown at 43.41 percent,' said an IT department official who did not wish to be identified.

August 19th, 2009 By Arvind Padmanabhan and Fakir Balaji The global slowdown and the financial crisis have ironically whetted the appetite of India's $71 billion outsourcing industry for takeovers, as back-office arms of multinational companies, both large and small, are being acquired by them in steal deals. And much to the delight of Indian buyers, the sellers have almost always awarded multiyear, multimillion dollar contracts to get the same services from them that has insured the jobs of millions of Indian youth.

January 7th, 2009 SINGAPORE - As the Satyam revenue fraud story unraveled, the computer services company's offices in Singapore were Thursday scrambling to restore confidence among its wide network of customers in its regional hub here and in other Southeast Asian countries. Top Satyam Computer Services officials were busy meeting the company's more than 400 clients in Singapore, including several government agencies, to reassure them that the company would continue to fulfill its contracts and that it would be business as usual, a senior company official said.

June 2nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Union Minister of Communications and Information Technology, A Raja has said that the prospects of the further lowering of telephone tariff in India are imminent in the future. He said this while assuming his charge of the ministry here on Monday.

May 5th, 2009 BANGALORE - US President Barack Obama's announcement to end tax sops to those US firms outsourcing jobs to countries like India has come under flak from Phil Harkins, a leading US management expert and chief executive of Linkage Inc, a global firm specialising in leadership development 'What Obama is doing is just politics. It's the arrogance of the US to think creating jobs overseas will result in job losses back home.