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IT company Coforge on Friday said it has posted 16 per cent increase in consolidated profit at Rs 296.7 crore in the third quarter ended December 31, 2025. Coforge had posted a profit of Rs 255.9 crore in the same period a year ago, the company said in a regulatory filing. The consolidated revenue from operations of Coforge grew by 28.5 per cent to Rs 4,188.1 crore during the reported quarter, from Rs 3,258.1 crore in the December 2024 quarter. Coforge Chief Executive Officer Sudhir Singh said the company posted 5.1 per cent sequential growth in the December quarter, which is a seasonally weak quarter, along with 28.5 per cent year-on-year growth. Six large deals were signed during the period. "A 30 per cent year-on-year increase in the next 12-month executable order book, and a robust large deals pipeline, gives us the confidence of maintaining our strong and sustained growth through both FY26 and FY27. "Furthermore, the USD 2 billion core of Data, Cloud and AI-led engineering th
US-based IT firm Salesforce, which has witnessed multi-fold growth in its business and investment, will continue to invest and grow in India, as the country has the right set of talent pool available, its Executive Vice President and MD (South Asia) Arun Kumar Parameswaran said. Salesforce started operations in India in 2005 with its first centre of excellence in Hyderabad. Now, the company is spread to six locations in India with an annual revenue of USD 1 billion and a workforce of over 13,000. India is the second-biggest market for the company after the US. "We were about 2,500 in 2020...now, we have a headcount of over 13,000, over a five-fold jump...we will continue to invest and grow in India because the country has a lot of skills that everybody wants to hire," he told PTI in an interaction. Besides, he said the company has a proven track record of being able to deliver innovation at scale and speed. The global customer relationship management (CRM) technology solutions gian