Microsoft will hire more staff at Indian facility
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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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Microsoft will open a software development office in Vancouver, Canada, later this year, in part as a way to retain talented workers who can't stay in the U.S. because of immigration laws.
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Manikonda Jagir (Ranga Reddy, AP): Microsoft India Campus, the new facility coming up at Manikonda Jagir near Hyderabad as an extension to Microsoft Corporation&#39;s commitment of $400-million of investment in India, would focus on developing high-end
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As British unions cry foul over an exodus of jobs to Asia, one Indian information technology firm is bucking the trend, hiring 250 more staff at a call centre in Northern Ireland.
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Microsoft Corporation is further expanding its presence in India with plans to open a research centre in Bangalore. The latest Microsoft research campus will open in January 2005, the Redmond, Washington-based software giant said.
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IBM has introduced new procedures to evaluate its staff in India with an eye to improving quality, with staff that don&#39;t make the grade being asked to leave.&quot;We are pioneering new ways for our people to certify their skill levels as both a validation of their value to clients and to reinforce the quality of our employees&#39; personal skill sets,&quot; a spokesman for IBM India said Monday.India is a key hub for the global delivery of services by IBM, as the company takes advantage of the country&#39;s large pool of skilled labor. IBM had 73,000 staff in India at the end of last year, up from 53,000 at the end of 2006.As a result of the new procedures, IBM has dismissed over 700 entry-level programmers from its global services delivery operation in India after they failed to measure up in performance tests, according to a report Saturday in local newspaper The Economic Times.However, the number of staff actually laid off is likely to be less than 200, according to informed sources, who requested anonymity.Indian operations of multinational companies and Indian outsourcing companies compete with each other for scarce staff. The news that IBM had asked staff to leave in their hundreds has taken local media and analysts by surprise.IBM said it was screening and testing some of its employees, but would not comment on the reported lay-offs.Even as staff salaries are increasing in India, IT services companies are insisting on a higher performance from their staff. The appreciation of the India rupee against the US dollar has also meant that staff salaries in India have got more expensive.
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Google Inc  is planning to  expand its staff by a third, with most of the new hirings in  Europe, the Financial Times reported on its Website.
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Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) announced Wednesday that it would offer a low-cost, localized version of its Windows XP operating system in India to tap the large market potential in this country of 1 billion people, most of whom do not speak English...
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Microsoft will hire hundreds of new staff for its operations in Hyderabad, south India over the next 12 months. The company&#39;s chief executive officer, Steve Ballmer said the hiring of more staff for its software
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HYDERABAD: Microsoft will hire several hundred new staff at its new campus here in the next year, its chief executive said on Monday -- a move aimed at strengthening its presence in the country.
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Microsoft gives added titles and responsibilities to more than a dozen executives, naming some new leaders in its Windows, Windows Mobile and Windows Live efforts. Three previously reported departures are confirmed.
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Software service provider Cognizant Technology Solutions plans to build a new center in India that will employ nearly 4,000 engineers.
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Microsoft Corp. announced Wednesday that it would offer a low-cost, localized version of its Windows XP operating system in India to tap the large market potential in this country of 1 billion people, most of whom do not speak English.
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Search giant is looking to hire engineers and other workers at facilities in Bangalore and Hyderabad.
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DÃSSELDORF, GERMANY - Siemens AG plans to hire an additional 1,000 software engineers in India this year in an ongoing effort to expand its research and development (R&D) activities in growth markets.
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Microsoft Corp. is further expanding its presence in India with plans to open a research center in Bangalore.
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Yahoo has trimmed some staff in India as part of an exercise to improve the quality of its research and development (R&amp;D) team in the country. The company has removed less than 5 percent of staff after they failed in a performance appraisal, according to an informed source. Yahoo employs 1,500 staff in India in R&amp;D and its sales and marketing operations.However, the company continues to hire more staff in India. While declining to confirm the staff cuts, a spokeswoman at Yahoo said Thursday that the company has doubled staff in India each year, and is likely to do so this year as well. &quot;We continue to build a high performance culture in India,&quot; she said.IBM&#160;and Indian outsourcer Tata Consultancy Services have also&#160;trimmed under-performing staff in India, although both have said that the staff cuts are routine annual exercises to weed out under-performing staff. As staff costs in India increase because of shortage and competition, companies may be getting a lot tighter on quality, according to some analysts.Yahoo announced in January&#160;plans to let go about 1,000 of its global staff&#160;in February.