Telecom software firm Aricent is understood to be looking at setting up a Centre of Excellence (CoE) at its Bangalore operations for developing mobile value-added services (VAS) applications which can be delivered over service-oriented architectures (SOAs) to clients.

Aricent to set up mobile VAS centre of excellence

Business Standard

The Ruias of the Essar Group will now be getting around $750 million (about Rs 3,493 crore) more from their telecom joint venture partner, Vodafone Group, over and above the fair market price if they exercise the &ldquo;put&rdquo; option for their 33.02 per cent stake.

Essar may get Rs 3,493 crore windfall from Vodafone

Its revenue, too, at Rs 8,217 crore recorded a 14 per cent increase as compared with the figures posted during the same period a year ago.

TCS beats estimates, net shoots up 24%

Infy closes BPO in Bangkok

Announces tie-up with TCS to provide web-based business connectivity.

Google works on boosting business in India

Technology services company iGATE has posted 83.6 per cent rise in net income to $11.2 million for the Q2-ended June 30, 2010, from $6.1 million in the same period last year. Consolidated revenues rose 42.7 per cent to $66.8 million from $46.8 million recorded in the corresponding quarter last year. iGATE ended the quarter with a global headcount of over 8,100 employees, a net addition of 800 employees. The company added four customers in the quarter.

iGate net up 83.6 per cent

City-based information and communication technology company Prithvi Information Solutions Limited (PISL), which had recently acquired Percentix Inc, a US-based business intelligence consulting company, is in the process of acquiring another US company.

Prithvi Info to buy US company

The country&rsquo;s top software exporter, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), today toppled its main rival, Infosys, as the most valued IT company in the country.

TCS pips Infy as most valued IT company

Press Trust of India

The information technology (IT) sector in West Bengal is expected to create jobs for approximately 25,000 people next year, marking the end of the recession.

More IT jobs in Bengal next year

Polaris Software Lab Ltd has said that it will continue to make acquisitions to complement its portfolio of services and products.

Polaris eyes more acquisitions

Richard Branson-led Virgin Group's mobile brand, Virgin Mobile, is launching one of the biggest co-branding exercise in the telecom space. The company is in talks to tie up with 50 top brands in the country across sectors like apparel, restaurants, electronics and even consumer goods.

Virgin Mobile to tie up with 50 brands

Bharti Airtel has petitioned Sri Lanka&rsquo;s Supreme Court to stop a new minimum mobile phone price plan announced by the telecom regulator, an official said today.

Bharti objects to Sri Lankan mobile phone tariff

Software exports from Orissa has witnessed an almost flat growth in 2009-10 at Rs 1198 crore.

Software exports from STPI units at Rs 1,198 crore in 2009-10

N Chandrasekaran, the CEO and MD of India&rsquo;s largest information technology company, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), is quick to say the smile on his face, after posting one of the best quarters since September 2006 (in constant currency), does not mean the business environment is back on track. He remains watchful on the macro environment. In an interview to Shivani Shinde, he spoke on the general business environment, European crisis and growing concerns on staff attrition.

Q&A: N Chandrasekaran, MD & CEO, TCS

Update, tweet and share all you want, but be mindful of how it can affect your life and career.

Push your career, don't 'poke' it

When Apple&rsquo;s iPod made its way into the market, it was seen as the gadget to have as far as digital music players were concerned. Apart from changing the way we tuned in to music, the iPod also opened a new avenue for broadcast of digital media files &mdash; through podcasts. But podcasts are not limited to iPod owners.

Make your voice heard with podcast

The Uttarakhand government&rsquo;s efforts to revive the Sahastrardhara IT Park suffered a setback after Ideb, a private company, decided to back out from the joint venture (JV) with the State Industrial Development Corporation of Uttarakhand Limited (Sidcul).

Ideb decides to back out from IT park

Asserting that it was forced to pay a whopping Rs 18,500 crore for 3G and broadband spectrum, the employees associations of BSNL today asked the government to refund the money and threatened to go on strike if the demand was not met.

BSNL unions demand refund of Rs 18,500 cr, threaten strike

The surest sign that the global economy, particularly the developed countries, is far from getting back to normal lies in the results of India&rsquo;s software leaders, TCS and Infosys, for the first quarter of the current financial year. It is not as if the storm of the last year is still there and the hatches remain battened down, but it is not calm seas and sunny sailing yet. The good news is that a certain amount of discretionary spending is back, the not-so-good news is that prices are either stable or under pressure, depending on who you are, and the bad news is that the inexorable need to recruit in order to deliver growth and volumes has resulted in higher attrition even as wage bills have gone up.

Software struggles on

Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN), the world&rsquo;s second-largest maker of wireless phone systems, said it will pay $1.2 billion for wireless network assets from Motorola Inc to expand in North America and Japan.

Nokia Siemens acquires Motorola unit for $1.2 bn

Basic acquaintance with law and access to legal information have become indispensable to everyone these days, but no species of knowledge is more difficult to get at the desired moment. It is still a sealed book and patrimony of the legal profession. The courts are the least accessible of all branches of government. The situation has changed little even after computerisation of courts more than a decade ago.

M J Antony: Hung on cyber front

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