Tech Sector

Industry body FICCI has called for greater Dutch investment in India's manufacturing and technology sectors, while pitching for joint ventures, technology partnerships and supplier-development programmes to deepen bilateral economic ties. FICCI Secretary General Anant Swarup said the ongoing visit of Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal to the Netherlands could help translate investment discussions into specific projects by bringing together businesses and government agencies to address issues related to location, technology, infrastructure, suppliers and regulatory approvals. He said that the chamber would like to see progress on four key areas and that includes manufacturing partnerships, technology collaborations, supply chain integration, and follow-up of projects. It called for a pipeline of joint ventures and capacity-expansion proposals in engineering, equipment, food processing and other technology-intensive industries. It also called for partnerships between ...

Asia’s AI boom could create risks far beyond the tech sector. A slowdown in AI spending could hit chip exports, stock markets, business lending and economic growth across the region

India accounts for an average 12 per cent of employees at California-headquartered tech unicorns, second only to California, according to Stanford University research

Active tech job openings in India rose 14 per cent month-on-month in July, marking the first upward movement after three months of sustained declines, Xpheno said

LTTS, Wipro, IBM India, TCS and Infosys are competing to build India's Customs Integrated System, a unified AI-powered platform for faster trade clearances

The push for sovereign AI comes at a time when India's AI hiring market is undergoing a broader shift-from building AI models to deploying them at scale

The former Infosys CFO says India's leading firms need to increase investments in AI and R&D or risk losing competitiveness to global rivals

Microsoft Vice Chair Brad Smith says students embrace AI's benefits but want humans, not machines, to determine its role in society and the future of work

India may lack AI software giants, but companies supplying cables, transformers and cooling systems for data centres are emerging as key beneficiaries of the AI boom

The companies rose to prominence in the late 1990s by helping Western firms solve the Y2K bug, which had threatened computer chaos at the turn of the millennium

Big Tech layoffs intensify as companies ramp up AI investments, cutting over 92,000 jobs in 2026 while hiring sentiment weakens amid ongoing workforce rationalisation

CSM Technologies wins 'Tech Excellence in GovTech' at NASSCOM SME Inspire Awards 2026, highlighting its role in advancing digital governance platforms

India's tech spending growth is expected to ease slightly in 2026 but remain among the highest in Asia, driven by cloud adoption, AI investments and data localisation trends

Geopolitical uncertainties and fragmented supply chains are forcing global businesses to prioritise trust and resilience over mere cost-efficiency, positioning India as a highly viable technology partner of choice, Nasscom President Rajesh Nambiar said on Tuesday. Speaking at the Nasscom Global Confluence 2026, Nambiar said the technology industry, which is heavily dependent on exports, is navigating an era of extraordinary transformation, noting that the reconfiguration of global value chains has fundamentally changed how countries and companies approach technology partnerships. "It used to be a fact that everybody optimised only for cost and efficiency... Those days are gone... Efficiency is important, but not necessarily the deciding factor. Resilience becomes much, much more critical. India sits at a very nice intersection of all these priorities, which makes us a very viable country to do business with. "...We are navigating this period where not just the geopolitical tensions,

Gas shortages triggered by the West Asia conflict are disrupting kitchens, restaurants and small industries in India, exposing the country's fragile LNG-dependent energy system

Country's tech industry generates $300 bn annual revenue

Next phase of India Semiconductor Mission to prioritise chip design firms, manufacturing equipment supply chain and advanced semiconductor talent

HCLTech has elevated company veteran Sandeep Saxena as Chief Growth Officer - Growth Markets 2, as it sharpens focus on India and other key regions such as West Asia and Africa

Survey finds 95% Indian telcos confident in monetising AI traffic; over half expect AI workloads to eclipse traditional cloud soon

MeitY's Abhishek Singh cautions that rapid advances in machine intelligence threaten India's long-held IT edge