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Booming Indian Tech Sector Expects Further Growth
News And, by the end of the 2008 financial year, almost two million Indian workers will be employed in the technology industry. The Indian technology industry is expected to generate around $64bn (£32bn) in revenues in 2008 — 33 percent growth — making...
[February 14, 2008, 8:31]
UK Visas Relaxed For Indian IT Workers
News Alexander revealed the change as he visited an international high-tech gathering in the Indian city of Bangalore. The UK's e-commerce minister Douglas Alexander has announced that Britain is relaxing visa restrictions for Indian IT professional who...
[November 1, 2001, 18:04]
Bangalore Closing Gap On Silicon Valley
News The high-tech Indian city, which is home to major Indian IT outsourcers, including Infosys, Tata Consultancy Services and Wipro Technologies, as well as many Western IT companies, now employs 160,000 people in the technology sector.
[July 29, 2004, 8:55]
Ex-Sun Worker Files Discrimination Suit
News A former Sun Microsystems employee is suing the company, claiming it violated age and race discrimination laws by keeping younger East Indian workers while firing him and other American workers. But Sun's preference for young East Indians and East...
[March 19, 2003, 13:50]
India May Face IT Worker Shortage
News The number of Indian IT software and services professionals should hit 650,000 next month, a 24.4 percent spike from last year. The overall median age of Indian software professionals was 26.5 years. According to a recent survey by the Nasscom...
[February 18, 2003, 10:34]
Microsoft 'offshoring Some Longhorn Development'
News These documents clearly dispute that idea and show that US employees are directly competing with Indian companies for work on next-generation technologies -- that originally were developed in the United States.
[July 29, 2004, 12:55]
Tata Extends IBM Partnership
News IBM, for example, has thousands of workers in India and is acquiring a 6,000-person Indian company that offers transaction processing and telemarketing services. The company's extended partnership with IBM in effect signals the emerging strength of...
[June 25, 2004, 12:05]
EDS Outsources IT Work To New Zealand
News Critics of the shift of IT work overseas have raised questions about the skill levels of Indian programmers and the effect of "offshoring," or the moving of work overseas, on US workers. US-based IT services companies have been rushing to expand...
[March 11, 2003, 14:46]
Politicians Ask Indian Firms To Employ Americans
Talkback Indian companies will never invest in foreign workers, they have no history of doing so. Look at the large number of Indian tech firms who have offices globally they only employ Indians. India is basically an economic sponge soaking up vast...
[January 23, 2004, 10:57]
Rise In UK Work Permits Sparks Alarm
News Most of the visas — 79 percent — were granted to Indian IT workers, and the number of techies coming to the UK from India increased by 47 percent to 26,835 in the past year. She said: "The irony is that while low-skilled IT jobs are being shipped...
[February 21, 2007, 9:26]
More IT Firms Look Overseas To Cut Costs
News That strategy is partly in response to the success of Indian-based players such as Infosys Technologies and Wipro Technologies. Indian companies began to take on low-profile tasks like legacy software maintenance in the early 1990s.
[February 21, 2003, 9:56]
India Wins Lion's Share Of Outsourcing
News However, offshore BPO represents only 1.5 percent of the total BPO market, pointing to a lot of headroom still available to Indian companies for growth. But to get the lucrative jobs, Indian companies have to improve the skills needed to take on...
[July 9, 2003, 8:16]
India's Call Centre Staff Burn Out
News Because the bulk of calls originate from the US and Europe, staff often have to change their names from Indian ones to ones that Westerners can relate to, as well as adapt speech patterns through voice coaching.
[August 8, 2003, 11:25]
Politicians Ask Indian Firms To Employ Americans
News As worries mount over US jobs lost to countries such as India, some members of Congress say one solution would be for Indian companies to hire US workers. That kind of action by Indian companies could help forestall efforts to regulate outsourcing.
[January 7, 2004, 7:35]
Survey Finds Increasing Uncertainty Over Offshoring
News However, according to The Work Foundation report, Indian workers don't see things that way. Indian business insiders see future offshore outsourcing as an advantage for Europe enabling it to focus on the 'thinking part of the job', providing...
[August 22, 2007, 10:04]
AOL Quietly Shifts Staffing To India
News The database company plans to double its 3,000-person workforce at two Indian research centres. These actions have heightened fears among US technology workers that their jobs will be shipped abroad. Besides raising concerns about exporting high...
[December 23, 2003, 7:35]
UR Answer
Talkback they are part time workers who work fr just 3 months and leave to study more and get more professional degrees unlike u assholes who after all the stupid talk end up gng to a pizza corner to work and that too owned by an indian .jack ass i bet u...
[August 17, 2006, 22:12]
Indiana Cancels India Outsourcing Deal
News Citing the need to protect local businesses, the US state of Indiana terminated a software contract it had awarded to an Indian company -- a move indicative of growing opposition to offshore outsourcing.
[November 27, 2003, 9:00]
Google To Set Up In India
News Around 100 engineers will be hired for the Bangalore R&D centre, The Times of India, an Indian daily, reported. Google already employs Indian-born engineers, such as Krishna Bharat, an IIT Chennai graduate who is Principal Scientist at Google, and...
[December 15, 2003, 14:10]
Outsourcing To Boom In 2003
News But with Indian IT services companies such as Infosys Technologies and Wipro Technologies beginning to challenge their US-based counterparts, American businesses such as IBM and Hewlett-Packard have started setting up shop overseas.
[January 31, 2003, 8:24]
