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FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE: Infosys net rises 30% in Q2
Cuts dollar revenue guidance; pricing environment ‘stable’. Bangalore, Oct. 10 Infosys Technologies Ltd reported a 30.2 per cent rise in net profit for the September quarter, beating its own and street estimates. It, however, pared ...

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS: Infosys pulls out of race for Axon
HCL Tech to convert offer into ‘scheme of arrangement’. New Delhi/Bangalore, Oct. 10 With Infosys Technologies bowing out of the race to acquire UK-based SAP consulting firm Axon Group, HCL Technologies on Friday decided to implement ...

OUTLOOK: Infosys downward forecast could drag IT stocks down: Analysts
Firm reworked estimate due to economic conditions. A downward revision of guidance by IT bellwether Infosys Technologies could send information technology stocks on a free fall in subsequent trading ...

HUMAN RESOURCES: Infosys maintains hiring guidance for this fiscal
Overall headcount crosses one-lakh mark. Bangalore, Oct. 10 Infosys Technologies maintained that its hiring plans for the fiscal were intact even as it lowered its revenue estimate for the full year partly because of a slower business ...

INTERVIEW: ‘We’re seriously looking at cross currency hedging’
Bangalore, Oct. 10 A weak rupee helped Infosys beat its own estimates and analysts’ forecast to post a healthy, double-digit sequential growth in net profit and revenues for the September quarter. Infosys is cautious about the outlook ...

OUTLOOK: Macro-environment concerns factored into guidance
Though the market did not take kindly to the lowering of its guidance for the year, Infosys has bettered expectations and its own guidance to deliver reasonable earnings for the September ...

OUTLOOK: Cognizant revenue guidance remains unchanged
Chennai, Oct. 10 Cognizant Technology Solutions on Friday said its revenue guidance for the September quarter and the calendar year remains unchanged. In a statement, the company said it has reaffirmed its guidance (issued end-July this year) ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: BSNL’s 3G telecom service to roll out in December
Chennai, Oct. 10 The Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, will roll out BSNL’s 3G telecom service in Delhi in December, according to the Union Minister of Communications and Information Technology, Mr A. ...

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS: Recap eyes HOV Services arm
Recap, LLC of the US has offered to purchase all assets, including shares, owned by HOV Services, LLC, a subsidiary of the Chennai-based HOV Services Ltd, which provides business process and knowledge process outsourcing solutions. The offer ...

HUMAN RESOURCES: Aricent to hire 800 professionals
New Delhi, Oct. 10 Aricent, a technology and outsourcing company focused on the communications industry, on Friday announced plans to hire about 800 professionals over the next three months, expanding its global workforce by up to 10 per cent ...

INTERNET: Gene Logic, deScinerT to offer genomic info services
Hyderabad, Oct. 10 Gene Logic has entered into an alliance with deScinerT Business Network to create interactive genomics information resource that can be accessed by ...

FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE: Mastek net rises 63%
Mumbai, Oct. 10 IT solutions firm Mastek Ltd reported a 63 per cent rise in net profit for the quarter ended September 30 to Rs 41.2 crore against Rs 25.1 crore reported in the corresponding year ...

SOFTWARE: Core Projects plunges on margin call talk
Mumbai, Oct. 10 Shares of Mumbai-based IT firm Core Projects & Technologies were hammered badly on the bourses on Friday to close at Rs 140.65, 43 per cent lower than the previous ...

From eWorld

SOFTWARE: Not too keen to pay for use?
When every rupee counts, one would think the ‘software as a service’ model is poised to grow. But the action appears muted. Here’s a reality check.. Though Software as a Service has been held up as the next big revolution in ...

INTERNET: Trigger for violence?
The Finland shootout raises grave concerns over the use of the Internet.. Parents say our children are not out on the streets, they are not doing drugs or alcohol, they are at home and we believed they were secure. It is now the opposite, and ...

E-COMMERCE & E-BUSINESS: Serve IT hot and fast
Technology waits on you, at this restaurant.. When you’ve ordered Paneer Tikka, you don’t want to settle for Paneer Pakoda, right?But why does the mix-up happen, at the restaurant? It happens because the ‘master’ (the ...

INTERVIEW: Pay through the mobile phone
Awareness and adoption are challenges, says mChek.. Even at a 3 per cent conversion of every mobile bill payer onto an mCommerce solution, the industry would be worth around Rs 3,000 crore, estimates Sanjay Swamy, CEO, mChek. The Bangalore-based ...

CYBER QUEST: Quiz
V.V. Ramanan. 4. Which Academy Award American actress’ new Web site is ...

INTERVIEW: Debt spells no dent
3i Infotech on aggressive use of debt to fund acquisitions and working capital requirements.. 3i Infotech has been aggressive in acquisitions. Its latest in a string of acquisitions is US-based Regulus, which provides bill presentment and ...

BOOKS: Good technology is almost half of health
With telemedicine and robotic surgeries, doc-patient distances diminish.. A healthy feeling is a happy one, as we recently saw, closer home. A few top-level statements about ‘health’ lifted the otherwise gloomy financial markets. ...

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