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Tech Mahindra's Q3 profit slides 5.3% as expenses jump on macro challenges

India's Tech Mahindra reported a fall in third-quarter profit on Monday, hurt by higher expenses and a subdued performance by its communications division

Amid layoffs, techies looking for ways to get more 'secure' jobs: Report

Global tech companies have laid off around 70,000 employees in the last one year

Cognizant announces new services agreement worth $1 bn with CoreLogic

Nasdaq-listed IT company Cognizant on Thursday announced a new 10-year services agreement valued at about USD 1 billion with CoreLogic, a global property information, analytics and data-enabled solutions provider. The deal deepens the scope of the current collaboration with a focus on delivering strong solutions and customer experience through digital transformation and operational excellence, Cognizant said in a statement. "Cognizant and CoreLogic extend the decade-long relationship with USD 1 billion, ten-year services agreement," the statement added. Since 2011, Cognizant has been a service delivery partner, offering capabilities in application development and support, analytical modelling and domain-centric business process services to CoreLogic and its customers, primarily in the US mortgage and real estate markets. "Real estate, mortgage lifecycle, and insurance transactions depend on accurate, timely data and analytics. We are committed to helping CoreLogic provide this ...

Happiest Minds to acquire SMI via upfront, deferred equity for Rs 111 cr

Happiest Minds Technologies on Wednesday announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire Madurai-headquartered IT services company SMI through a combination of upfront and deferred equity consideration amounting to Rs 111 crore. With 400 plus offshore-based employees, SMI (Sri Mookambika Infosolutions) has an annual revenue run rate of USD 9 million (over Rs 73 crore). "Happiest Minds Technologies today announced the signing of definitive agreements to acquire 100 per cent of SMI - a Madurai-headquartered, profitable, IT services company through a combination of upfront and deferred equity consideration totalling Rs 111 crore," the company said in a statement. SMI provides product engineering services to its US customers around enterprise applications and integrations, digital data platform services (analytics, data strategy, Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning, User Experience) and mobility services. It has, over the years, built deep domain expertise around the healthc

Difficult but necessary, says Nadella as Microsoft plans to cut 10,000 jobs

He said that the company would invest in strategic areas for the future by allocating both capital and talent

Net hiring in India's top four IT firms drops by 97% to 1,940 in Q3FY23

Tata Consultancy Services, Wipro, Infosys and HCL Tech- reported a combined net addition of 1,940 employees in the quarter that ended December 2022

Hiring slowdown lifts India's top IT companies' profit per employee

Productivity improves in terms of revenue per employee

Wipro Q3 result: Gross revenue up 14.4% YoY; attrition rate moderates

The revenue expectations from IT Services business for the full year is set to be in the range of 11.5 per cent to 12.0 per cent, in constant currency terms

HCL Tech reports revenue growth of 19.6%; announces Rs 10 dividend

HCL Q3 results: The company added 2,945 new employees during the quarter, and the closing headcount was 222,270. The attrition rate in Q3FY23 stood at 21.7%

Infosys Q3 result: IT major's revenue grows 20% YoY to Rs 38,318 cr

The attrition rate has been recorded at 24.35 in Q3FY23. In Q3FY22, it was at a higher 25.5%

TCS reports 11% net profit jump in Q3, announces dividend of Rs 75 a share

It will have an interim dividend of Rs 8 per share and a special dividend of Rs 67 per equity share

Results preview: Q3 may drive caution for IT sector, better margins likely

Almost all the tierI companies in the Q2 of FY23 had signalled then that though the current macro has not impacted budget in general, there are specific pockets where delay in deal closure was evident

IT majors lowering revenue projections for FY23 amid macroeconomic troubles

HCL's CEO C Vijaykumar recently said that the spending on hi-tech and telecom verticals was lower than expected and with price changes, it is going to be a big macroeconomic challenge

Big Tech and 'sideloading' debate; IT firms fear security, privacy breaches

Sideloading is a way for app developers to load their applications without going through formal stores such as Google Play for Android phones or the Apple App Store for iPhones

Does Accenture's Q1 result spell more pain for IT firms?

Despite firm Q1 revenue growth, Accenture Plc left analysts unimpressed as it pegged the next quarter's revenue growth below projections. Does this signal more trouble for Indian IT companies ahead?

Does Accenture's Q1 result spell more pain for IT firms?

Despite firm Q1 revenue growth, Accenture Plc left analysts unimpressed as it pegged the next quarter's revenue growth below projections. Does this signal more trouble for Indian IT companies ahead?

Bucking the trend, IT companies in India to increase hiring in 2023: Survey

India is going to be an overall employment gainer in 2023 due to a stable geographical, economic and political foundation: Randstad

I'm last of the jokers left; no plan B after I leave Infosys: Nilekani

'I was completely wrong,' Murthy rues not allowing founders' children to join the company

Tech layoffs surpass Great Recession levels, set to get worse in early 2023

The massive layoffs by the tech companies this year alone have surpassed the levels from the Great Recession the world went through 2008-2009 that began with Lehman Brothers collapse

Vee Technologies to hire 3,000 fresh graduates in south India in next 1 yr

Bengaluru-New York headquartered IT services firm, Vee Technologies has announced its plan to add over 3,000 fresh graduates to its work force in south India in the next 12 months, to cater to the growing business from its healthcare customers in the US. As a first step, the company said it has initiated the hiring process to induct 1,200 fresh graduates in biotech, science and arts as part of the Rs 200 crore expansion plan. Vee Technologies' delivery centres in Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Telangana in India, and in Manila in the Philippines and multiple locations in the USA service global customers in healthcare, engineering and design space, through proprietary platforms. Vee's software, analytics and strategic IT services clients are made up of hundreds of hospitals, including six of the top 10 US hospitals, deploying proprietary platforms and tools, a company statement said. CEO and Managing Director of Vee Technologies, Chocko Valliappa said the company aims to triple the numbe