The top 10 Indian information technology service providers grew 19.9 per cent last year, compared with 5.8 per cent for the worldwide top 10 IT service providers and 3.1 per cent growth for the global market.

Indian IT services top global growth

Business Standard

Reconstitutes Patni board; retains 4 senior executives in the executive council; iGate Patni to be the new brand identity.

iGate completes Patni acquisition

iGate has finally completed the acquisition of Patni Computer Systems, one of the biggest transactions in the information technology (IT) services space so far. Phaneesh Murthy, who would take over as the CEO and MD of the combined entity iGate Patni, is all set to compete with the likes of IBM, Accenture, Infosys and Congnizant and has given two years' time for the company to hit the road on full speed. In a chat with Bibhu Ranjan Mishra and Shivani Shinde, he talks about the road ahead.

Q&A: Phaneesh Murthy, CEO & MD, iGate Patni

State-run Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited (MTNL) has narrowed its losses by 30 per cent to Rs 1,099.5 crore for the fourth quarter ended March 31, from Rs 1,573.7 crore in the same quarter last year.

MTNL narrows losses to Rs 1,099.5 crore

Best business moment?
Signing global agreements with Vodafone and Telefonica in London and Madrid
Favourite TV show?
I don&rsquo;t watch TV!! Does the Pakistan-India match count?
Books on your bedside? 
Fountainhead &mdash; Ayn Rand
Midnight&rsquo;s Children &mdash; Salman Rushdie
Our Kind of Traitor &mdash; John Le Carr&eacute;
What&rsquo;s your cologne?
Comme Des Garcons
You get your suits from?
Barneys, New York
What&rsquo;s your shaving mantra?
Geo F

My Life My Style: Arvind Rao, OnMobile Systems

An Apple a day keeps old age away, at least in the new world.

A for Apple

Intel Capital, the global investment arm of chip maker Intel, today made an investment of $18 million in five Indian companies.

Intel Capital to invest $18 mn more in India

Catamaran Management Services, the venture capital fund promoted by Infosys Technologies Chairman N R Narayana Murthy, is free to exit SKS Microfinance.

Narayana Murthy's VC fund can exit SKS now

Wipro is trying to strengthen its presence in the banking, financial services and insurance (BFSI) segment by increasing its revenue share on par with other leading Indian information technology (IT) service companies.

Wipro serious on BFSI catch-up

The Telecom Ministry has issued a showcause notice to Idea Cellular for the Karnataka circle and Spice for the Andhra Pradesh circle for cancellation of licences on account of a delay in network roll-out.

Dot issues showcause notices to Idea, Spice

Press Trust of India

India&rsquo; largest information technology services company Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) today said Phiroz A Vandrevala would take over as the managing director and vice-chairman of Diligenta &mdash; its UK subsidiary. With this, he ceases to be the executive director of the company with immediate effect.

TCS' Vandrevala to head UK subsidiary Diligenta

You first have to enter Osama bin Laden&rsquo;s hideout and then kill him &mdash; in fact, take his head off &mdash; and then carry on to another five levels, where you hunt more terrorists and behead them too, mercilessly. And, says Games2Win, which has made and marketed this fantasy, it&rsquo;s got people hooked.

Tapping the Osama to onions link

Apple Inc appears to be arming itself for a full-on assault on the $150 billion-plus world of multimedia content and distribution.

Apple readies for content war vs Google, Amazon

Reuters 

Wipro looks to gain ground in BFSI segment

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Firms rush to make low-cost tablets

Artistes from remote areas getting bigger audience through online medium.

Cross-platform digital albums from rising country stars 

The buzz around apps just got louder. Apps are no more restricted to smartphones and tablet PCs. Thank Intel and Apple for the mini-programs for netbooks, PCs and Macs.

Hall of apps for PCs & netbooks

Sudhakar Ram, chairman, MD and CEO of Mastek, the mid-cap information technology services and products company, believes it is set for the next phase of growth. And, that some of the disappointing numbers over recent quarters are set to change.

Mastek says turnaround under way

If numbers are anything to go by, mobile number portability (MNP) has not made much of a dent in the fortunes of most telecom companies, as only about four million out of 771 million users have dumped their operators in the first five months of the much-vaunted initiative.

RCom okay with MNP loss to focus on value

To strengthen consulting capability in addressing the needs for the next phase of growth.

Infosys eyes large transformation deals

Telecom major Bharti Airtel has opposed the consultation paper issued by regulator Trai to review interconnection usage charges (IUC), saying it is not being done in accordance with the directions of TDSAT and the Supreme Court and hence needs to be reframed.

Bharti drills legal loopholes in Trai's IUC consultation paper

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