Microsoft Opens Hyderabad Campus
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Hyderabad, Nov. 16 (NNN) : Information technology (IT) giant Microsoft has opened a new campus in Hyderabad, which is said to be the biggest development centre outside America.
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Microsoft will hire several hundred new staff at its new Indian campus in the next year, its chief executive says -- a move aimed at strengthening its presence in Asia&#39;s fourth-biggest economy.
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Microsoft Research plans to establish its first-ever lab in India, hoping to attract top research talent in a country known for producing high-quality computer scientists.
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Microsoft Research will open a laboratory in Bangalore, India, the company&#39;s third research installation overseas and a sign of India&#39;s increasing importance in tech.
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A Microsoft 'school of the future' has been opened in Philadelphia, where traditional materials will be replaced by wireless laptops and parents can track their child's progress on the internet.
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(InfoWorld) - IBM Corp. has set up a new application services facility in India's north-eastern state of West Bengal, in a city that has emerged as one of the country's key software and services hubs. The new facility is in Kolkata, the capital of West Bengal, and is equipped to have about 3,000 staff, a spokeswoman for IBM India said. She could not give a timeframe for the expansion. Kolkata has emerged as a center for IT services because of the surprisingly business-friendly policies of West Bengal's communist government. A number of multinational companies and Indian outsourcers, with bases in Bangalore, Mumbai or Delhi, have expanded to Kolkata in a bid to tap new pools of talent. IBM already has three other delivery centers in the city, and it's home to IBMâs second-largest pool of employees in India after Bangalore. The Armonk, New York, company announced in June that it isÂ investing $6 billion in IndiaÂ over the next three years. It's part of IBM's strategy to grow its presence inÂ emerging markets such as China and Brazil, because they offer vast pools of staff and also because they are attractive markets themselves. IBM had about 43,000 staff in India as of June. It has hired more staff since then for its software and business process outsourcing (BPO) operations in India, according to industry sources.
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Microsoft is to open a research lab in India early next year, further extending the international reach of what has become one of the technology industry&#39;s biggest research bases.
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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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By Mensah M. Dean, Philadelphia Daily News  Sep. 7--When Philadelphia public school students begin classes today, a small number will enter new facilities, including those selected to attend the Microsoft Corp.-aided School of the Future.
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Microsoft is offering free use of its development and design tools to high school and college students worldwide.
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Microsoft  Corp.  said on Thursday it will open a software  development center in Vancouver, giving it a place to employ  skilled workers snagged by U.S. immigration quotas.
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On his blog, Ben Ramsey comments on the Microsoft Web Development Summit currently happening in Redmond, WA.  Microsoft has invited us to their main campus in an effort to reach out to the PHP community to solicit opinions and feedback on various technologies, including IIS, Silverlight, their Ajax library, Expression Web, etc.  For anyone interested, he's been posting his own notes from the summit on his Wiki.
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(InfoWorld) - The city of Hyderabad in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh has attracted a number of large multinational companies to set up software, services, and product development operations. The city, which has the headquarters of Indiaâs fourth largest outsourcer, Satyam Computer Services, also has facilities of other Indian outsourcers, and multinational technology companies like Microsoft and Oracle. Hyderabad is now aiming to be the technology hub of India. The Hyderabad chapter of Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE), an association of entrepreneurs and professionals from the Indian sub-continent, has tied up with the Indian School of Business (ISB) to host TiE-ISB Connect, a conference this week for budding entrepreneurs to present their business plans and interact with venture capitalists. More than 150 new business plans in IT, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, and the application of IT in life sciences and other fields are being showcased at the conference, up from 50 business plans a year ago, said Raju Reddy, chairman of the Hyderabad chapter of TiE, and chief executive officer of Sierra Atlantic, an outsourcing company in Fremont, California. The business plans, for setting up companies in Hyderabad, were selected from a large number that were submitted and are all of good quality, Reddy said Friday. Hyderabad attracts investment because of its large pool of skilled manpower, he said. People from Andhra Pradesh account for about 25 percent of Indians working in Silicon Valley, Reddy said. Even neighboring Bangalore, which is seen as Indiaâs main technology hub, employs many staff from Andhra Pradesh, he said. Hyderabad also scores better on infrastructure and a business-friendly government. Few other states can measure up to that, according to Reddy, in an obvious reference to neighboring Karnataka, whose capital of Bangalore is suffering from government inaction and poor infrastructure. Hyderabad also has some top educational institutions. The most recent entrant is the Indian School of Business, set up in association with some leading business schools abroad, which has a special program for entrepreneurs. Still, the city may still have some way to go before it beats out established technology centers like Mumbai, Delhi and Bangalore. A lot of companies are setting up in Hyderabad to find new pools of manpower, but the city lacks critical mass and the exposure it needs to attract the best entrepreneurs, said Sanjay Anandaram, a partner at JumpStartUp Venture Fund, a $45 millionÂ fund with headquarters in Mauritius. That may change, he said, but for now, the best business plans from a venture capitalists' point of view are still coming from Delhi, Bangalore and Mumbai. Most of the venture funding in the last 18 months has also gone to these three cities, he said.
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Microsoft Corp. MSFT.O said on Monday  it would expand its Redmond, Washington, headquarters to  accommodate the hiring of more than 10,000 new employees over  next 10 to 20 years.
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Microsoft is building a new data center in San Antonio. But in Silicon Valley, it's taking a more direct expansion route by acquiring two IT facilities that it currently leases from Savvis Inc.
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SEATTLE  - Two dozen designers, engineers and strategists toil in an unusual research lab on the Microsoft campus. Awkwardly dubbed the Mobile and Embedded Devices Experience design center, or MEDX, it is where Microsoft plots strategies to sell souped-up cellphones that act a lot like PCs.
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Microsoft Corp. is hiring hundreds of new staff for its operations in Hyderabad over the next 12 months, the company&#39;s chief executive officer, Steve Ballmer told reporters Monday in Bangalore, India.