Quite a few reasons have made 2011 a significant year for the Indian information technology (IT) services industry.

Challenging outlook for IT giants 

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Wipro&rsquo;s focus on consulting seems to be paying off. The company expects to have a $500 million (Rs 2,585 crore) consulting business in the next three years.

Wipro bets big on consulting, eyes $500-mn revenue by 2015

Indian companies consider applying to ICANN as it invites applications for new domain names.

Soon, brands to shift to the other side of the dot on the Web

Software major withdraws all its deposits from the country&rsquo;s largest bank.

SBI: Banker to every Indian, except Infy

For single, highly networked professionals, LinkedIn could well be the networking website to find that perfect job - or even a life partner. For the first time, a website for dating has been created for LinkedIn users.

For professionals, an online twist to keeping a tryst

The growth in the October-December quarter sales of SAP and Oracle were reflected in the India&rsquo;s fourth largest IT services firm HCL Technologies enterprise application services segment.

HCL's Axon unit leads Q2 numbers

TCS will end FY12 by hiring almost 66,000 employees, 6,000 more than what you had earlier indicated.

The demand environment is quite good: N Chandrasekaran

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), India&rsquo;s largest information technology (IT) services provider, said it had so far made campus offers to 43,600 engineering freshers for 2012-13, higher than the 37,800 offers made this year.

TCS offers jobs to 43,600 engineering graduates 

As a part of its 2015 Roadmap, India is going to be one of the crucial geographies for IBM, both as a delivery centre and as part of emerging market focus. IBM has six delivery centres in India.

India key in IBM's 2015 roadmap

Facebook, the world&rsquo;s largest social networking site, has just launched a new initiative under which advertisements will appear in the form of &lsquo;stories&rsquo; or posts about a product in its news feed labelled as &lsquo;featured&rsquo;. Marketers can only pay for these adverts to appear in a user&rsquo;s feed if the user has already &lsquo;liked&rsquo; the page. And the advertiser does not have the option to add its own additional message once the post is live.

Shivani Shinde