India's largest software and services outsourcer, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), on Tuesday inaugurated its outsourcing joint venture in China, which is likely to have Microsoft as a minority investor.
IT services company Accenture will have more staff in India than in any other country by the end of August.
The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay is setting up a chapter of Creative Commons with the aim of providing easier access to educational and other content.
Microsoft is working with the International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children (ICMEC) and the international police force Interpol to help fight online child abuse in India.
The Electronics Corporation of Tamil Nadu (ELCOT), a government-owned organization that delivers IT services to the southern India state of Tamil Nadu, has decided that its projects will be deployed on open-source software, including Linux.
Yahoo is researching areas such as microeconomics to help it better understand the behaviour of users, or of advertisers in areas such as keyword auctions.
British mobile services operator Vodafone Group has confirmed its interest in acquiring a controlling interest in Indian mobile services company Hutchison Essar.
Oracle has increased the price it is willing to pay for an additional stake in i-flex solutions, a vendor of financial software in Mumbai, India.
Cisco Systems Inc. will open a manufacturing facility in Chennai in south India that will initially make products for the domestic Indian market and also has announced it is setting up a globalization center in the country.
IBM is setting up development centers in Beijing and Pune, India that will focus on developing industry-specific SOA (service-oriented architecture) services to be reused across various customers.
IBM's India Research Laboratory has developed a web-based tool to help those who speak English as a second language to assess and improve their language skills. The technology, called Sensei for the Japanese word for teacher, was developed by the lab for IBM's call center and back office transaction processing services operation in India, IBM Daksh Business Process Services.
By taking advantage of its ability to deliver services offshore from low-cost India, Infosys Technologies can offer IT services to European customers at 30 to 40 percent lower cost than they would get in Europe, according to S. Gopalakrishnan, the company's president and chief operating officer. Gopalakrishnan discussed the company's strategy for the European market in an interview, an edited version of which follows.
The open-source community doesn't always deliver software that customers want, according to Rob Levy, executive vice president and chief technology officer of BEA Systems.
Microsoft has partnered with Hughes Network Systems to set up a network of 5,000 kiosks connected by broadband across 200 towns in rural India.
Google has found contests to be a good way to identify talented staff in India. It did that to hire engineers in India, and it's doing so again, to find graduates with good English writing skills for its AdWords advertising program.