Ballmer Visits New Campus in India
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Microsoft is also preparing to begin construction of a second building on the campus, spokeswoman Tami Begasse said yesterday. But the company hasn&#39;t yet decided whether it will proceed with the third and final building on the 42-acre Hyderabad site.
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BANGALORE, INDIA - Microsoft Corp. is setting up a research lab in Bangalore, India, that will focus on areas including computing technologies for emerging markets, according to a company executive.
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German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder arrived in New Delhi at the start of a four-nation tour aimed at bolstering ties with Asia.
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NEW DELHI The chief executives of Microsoft and Intel are visiting India this week, underscoring the country&#39;s importance as a source of skilled software workers and a growing local market.
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(InfoWorld) - Accenture has opened its 10th delivery center in India, as part of its strategy to locate its services delivery facilities close to where there is good quality staff in the country. The company is locating the new facility at Gurgaon near Indiaâs capital city of Delhi. Gurgaon and Noida, also near Delhi, are part of the National Capital Region (NCR) which is a booming center for software development, call centers, and business process outsourcing (BPO). Besides serving the companyâs global customers, the new facility at Gurgaon will also address growingÂ demand within IndiaÂ for its services, Accenture said Monday. Accenture will be recruiting staff from the NCR for the new facility, which will have a capacity of 1,100 seats. It will also offer opportunities for experienced Accenture professionals across levels and technology specialties to relocate to Gurgaon, the company said. The companyâs other nine facilities in India are spread across five cities â Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Mumbai, and Pune. The company hasÂ increased its staff significantlyÂ in India over the last three years from less than 4,000 in 2003 to 19,000 as of May this year. These staff service over 200 Accenture customers. A number of multinational services companies including IBM and Electronic Data SystemsÂ (EDS) areÂ expanding in IndiaÂ to take advantage of the countryâs highly skilled and low-cost staff. French IT services company Capgemini said earlier this year that it was making India its offshore services delivery hub. Accenture announced earlier this year that it has set up a lab in Bangalore, India that will focus on research and development in the areas of systems integration and software engineering. The companyâs new services delivery center in Gurgaon will provide application, infrastructure outsourcing and systems integration services, the company said.
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Prith Banerjee takes over a lab that was once a powerhouse of technological innovation and hopes to focus on fewer projects and bring in fresh talent.
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Accenture has opened its 10th delivery center in India, as part of its strategy to locate its services delivery facilities close to where there is good quality staff in the country.
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Mr Geert Linnebank, Editor-in-Chief and Global Head of Content, Reuters; Mr Kiran Karnik, President, Nasscom; and Mr N. Dharam Singh, Chief Minister of Karnataka, at the inauguration of Reuters&#39; new facility in Bangalore on Thursday.
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Indian External Affairs Minister Natwar Singh arrived here on a three-day visit for talks to review progress in peace talks with Pakistan, officials said.
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The world&#39;s largest software maker, Microsoft, made its place in the Indian information technology firmament more secure. Steve Ballmer, chief executive officer, Microsoft, inaugurated the companyâs largest
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A new concept of the college campus is taking root: a small city in the country that is not for only the young.
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A college to provide training for the Internet games industry has been opened in Beijing. Xinhua, China&#39;s main government-run news agency, reported Saturday that China&#39;s Ministry
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The Karnataka state government is trying to slow growth in Bangalore by encouraging new investors to set up their facilities in new townships.The concept of satellite towns is not new to Bangalore. While companies moved to these satellite towns because of the relatively cheap real estate, they did not provide housing there. As a result, employees had to commute from their homes in Bangalore to townships like Electronic City.Karnataka will now insist that companies establishing facilities in the new townships should also provide housing for their employees, said M.N. Vidyashankar, secretary for information technology in the state government. The township at Bidadi will be self-contained with schools, malls, and a direct link to an international airport under construction, he added.Besides the new townships, the government is also trying to reduce migration from the hinterland into Bangalore by trying to route new investments in IT, call centers, and business process outsourcing (BPO) facilities to other towns in Karnataka like Belgaum, Hubli, Bellary, and Mysore. The government has acquired land in some of these towns to be developed in partnership with the private sector.To get access to new staff pools, as well as to cut costs, Indian outsourcers are looking at smaller towns where they can set up their new facilities, said Siddharth Pai, a partner at outsourcing consultancy firm Technology Partners International Inc. (TPI) in Houston. Some outsourcing companies like Infosys already have operations in towns around Bangalore, like Mysore and Mangalore.Some of these small towns are centers for education, and hence good places to hire staff, Pai said. The only drawback so far has been poor connectivity by road and air, which the government should try to solve, he addedWith a population of over 6.5 million, the Indian city of Bangalore is reeling from too much growth at too fast a pace. The city houses the services delivery centers of top Indian outsourcers like Infosys Technologies and Wipro, and multinational companies like IBM, Dell, and Oracle.The traffic jams, high cost of housing, and shortage of staff in the city has not, however, slowed down new entrants to the city. In August, the state of Karnataka, of which Bangalore is the capital, cleared 52 new investments in the area of IT, said Vidyashankar.IT, call center, and BPO facilities in Bangalore employ 480,000 direct staff, apart from providing indirect employment to over 3 million other people, according to Vidyashankar. These sectors contribute to 36 percent of the state&#39;s GDP (gross domestic product), which is expected to increase to 50 percent of GDP by 2011, he added.
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PepsiCo International Chairman and CEO Steve Reinemund will begin his first visit to India from October 24 to take stock of the company&#39;s operations in the country.
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BANGALORE:Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer said he was excited about the work going on in India on the technology front. &quot;I think Indian IT majors like Wipro and Infosys are doing an incredible job.
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BANGALORE, INDIA -- Microsoft Corp. is hiring hundreds of new staff for its operations in Hyderabad over the next 12 months, the company's chief executive officer, Steve Ballmer told reporters Monday in Bangalore, India.
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The networking giant announces plans for its first research center in China and for a venture investment program in India.