IT Companies

Testhouse, a leading London-headquartered software testing and QA service provider, is shifting its Indian facility to the Technopark campus, Trivandrum. The office of Testhouse in Technopark will be inaugurated by Mr Mike Nithavrianakis, Deputy High Commissioner at the British Deputy High Commission. The new facility will serve as the offshore arm for the global operations of Testhouse, which has operations …

Indian IT major Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has plans to hire as many as 20,000 people this quarter, according to its CEO, N Chandrasekharan. TCS also expects an improvement in its profit margins, as western clients look to increase spending on information technology to cut costs and boost efficiency. The company is chasing 12 large deals in the United States, …

Infosys has created an interactive social networking portal to keep the employees networked, called Infosys Bubble. The social networking platform is said to be on the lines of leading social network platform Facebook and will cater exclusively to Infosys employees to share her/his views, pictures, moods and blogs among Infosys employees. The social networking platform was launched in June and …

Chennai based software and media services company, AccelTransmatic, a part of Rs 500 crore Accel group, has opened its new software development centre in the L&T SEZ at Infopark, Kochi. The new development centre will augment its existing facility at The Technopark, Trivandrum. Creating the new facility is part of Accel’s initiative to expand foot print geographically; to attract talent …

Technopark based GES Infotek celebrating its 6th year in technopark. GES Infotek is a subsidiary of Global Equipment Services (GES Inc.) a San Jose, US based company working in Design engineering, Contract manufacturing, Field service Engineering. The company formerly known as Wins Infotek Pvt Ltd was started in Technology Park, Trivandrum, India in the year 2005. The company has an …

Aptara Inc., the 4,600 person digital content solutions pioneer, headquartered in the US with primary operations in New Delhi, announces a significant expansion of its eLearning operations across India. Based in Pune since 2000, Aptara’s eLearning Center of Excellence designs and builds online training courses, modules, and portals for Fortune 500 companies worldwide. With plans to grow by fifty percent …

Oracle – One of the IT Giants in the world, has started operations at Technopark. Oracle has leased 40,000 sq.ft of space at Leela Infopark inside the Technpark campus, the operations began from a temporary office. At this time, 50 engineers recruited through campus interviews have joined the office for training. Oracle, which currently employs about 28,000 IT professionals in …

The Australian and New Zealand units of Indian IT giant Infosys have acquired the software solutions business of New Zealand’s Gen-i for an undisclosed sum.   In a statement, Infosys said that it will take over 110 employees and contractors from Gen-i, which would raise its New Zealand staff strength to up to 150 people. It also plans to add 15-30 …

In his article titled “Goodbye, folks. March on with values…,” in the firm’s 2010-11 annual report, Infosys Chief Mentor N R Narayana Murthy says that the company has given away Rs 50,000 crore (at current stock prices) of stock options to its employees since inception. Murthy says that he is not aware of another Indian company that has given away …

Veteran banker and former chairman of ICICI bank,Kundapur Vaman Kamath has been appointed the new Chairman of Infosys’ Board of Directors. He succeeds N R Narayana Murthy, who has been made Chairman Emeritus of Infosys for life. The current CEO and Managing Director, S ‘Kris’ Gopalakrishnan, will be the co-chairman, while the Chief Operating Officer, S Dinesh Shibulal, will take …

Indian IT giant Wipro has announced a salary hike of 12-15 percent for its Indian employees and 2-4 percent for its overseas employees, effective from June 1. The announcement regarding pay hikes came by as Wipro reported a 14 percent year-on-year rise in net profit for the January-March quarter in line with the market trends. The company reported a net …

One of the Seven Wonders of the World, the Taj Mahal, located in Agra, India, is the epitome of the Mughal architecture which involves Islamic, Persian and Indian art styles. Today, it is a world’s heritage site under UNESCO. It was built in the 1600s by the then Emperor Shah Jahan (a Mughal) for his third wife by the name …

Technopark based RM Education Solutions India Pvt. Ltd. (RMESI), a fully owned subsidiary of RM plc UK, has achieved the coveted BS 25999 certification. The certificate was awarded under UKAS accreditation following a rigorous audit by the British Standards Institution (BSI). Speaking on the occasion, Mr Connell Viegas, CEO of RMESI, said: “RMESI has always focused on best practices across …

Waybeo Technologies, a freshly-incubated company based in Technopark Trivandrum, has come up with BounzD, an interactive widget for web and mobile applications that will identify potential customers for a client in no time and push online sales.  A cloud-based service for voice communications over the web, it will enable potential customers to talk with the web team in real time …

Technopark-based IBS Software Services has announced the appointment of Rajiv Shah as its Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Shah, an industry veteran with over 25 years of experience in different companies, will take the responsibility for IBS’ worldwide operations.  Prior to his appointment at IBS, Shah was with Wipro Technologies, based out of Boston, and was heading its securities and capital …

Technopark-based Innoz Technologies has bagged the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) award for telecommunication at MIT’s Technology Review EmTech India Conclave in Banaglore. Innoz received the award for SMSGyan, a mobile based search engine that can work with different internet resources to give correct answers on verticals such as encyclopedia, dictionary, cricket scores, stock market and weather informations. With …

With an annual package of 10 Crore, T K Kurien, the CEO of Wipro’s information technology business, has become the highest paid executive in Indian IT companies. With a target to get the IT business back on growth, Kurien will get a salary in the range of Rs 3 crore to Rs 10 crore per annum. According to the statement …

The back-office processing arm of IT major Infosys Technologies Ltd expects a revenue growth of 18-20 percent in the financial year that begins April. D. Swaminathan, Chief Executive and Managing Director of Infosys BPO, said that he expected operating margins of 20 to 22 percent in fiscal 2012. Infosys will also hire 8,000 staff. The company also expects attrition to stabilize …