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...HCL, ranked second, has also been growing through aggressive acquisitions and is expected to soon displace Wipro as India’s third-largest IT player by revenue....
...Shares in Infosys, TCS and Wipro had underperformed mildly since the US election. On Tuesday they fell sharply amid reports that the next executive order will target the visa system....
...That means weakened demand for some services traditionally offered by Infosys and peers including Tata Consultancy Services and Wipro, such as helping big corporations to run enterprise software on their...
...Companies including Infosys, Wipro and Tata Consultancy Services from India and Accenture and IBM from the US are likely to be hardest hit....
...That same reputation for honest conduct also lies behind the respect accorded to the likes of Mr Tata, and the founders of software houses such as Infosys and Wipro....
...Wipro has also been run by joint CEOs for more than a year. Is this a wise option for a company to take? Is it a development that only technology companies should consider?...
...It is no surprise that many of India’s leading IT companies, such as Wipro, are based there, but Bangalore is also the destination of choice for the Indian operations of global companies such as Goldman...
...India’s most impressive IT performers over the last two years, repeatedly exceeding earnings and profits targets, even as some of its major rivals have struggled, most obviously Bangalore-based Infosys and Wipro...
...Many large businesses continue to outsource at least some IT operations to specialist service providers such as Indian companies Tata Consultancy Services, Infosys and Wipro, or to offshore information technology...
...As India’s results season rolls on, Friday brings news from Wipro, which recently split its operations between information technology and non-IT businesses....
...That’s critical,” says David Marcotte, retail director at Wipro Technologies, of luxury goods companies such as Burberry....
...But following a string of unexpectedly good earnings reports from the likes of Infosys and Wipro, Cognizant published its figures on Thursday. And this time, it’s not so far ahead....
...Next were Tata, Infosys and Wipro, all IT outsourcing companies based in India, with 17,373 visas between them....
...The four largest recipients – Cognizant, TCS, Infosys and Wipro – together had 26,654 visas last year, more than 40 per cent of the total given out....
...And they are hopeful for the Indian IT sector, betting on increasing capital expenditure from corporates, but they recommend cheap stock such as Wipro rather than Tata Consultancy Services....
...The southern Indian city of Bangalore is widely known as the world’s outsourcing capital, a global IT hub where the likes of Infosys and WIPRO pioneered offshore software development....
...The New Jersey-based company’s upbeat tone contrasted with sales warnings from outsourcing rivals Infosys and Wipro, who have warned of a slowing global outsourcing spend....
...It competes with the “big four” Indian IT services and consulting firms of Wipro, Infosys, TCS and HCL, and overtook Wipro in terms of reveune mid-2011....
...Wipro ended its three-year experiment with two CEOs in 2011, after the company lost ground to its rivals....
...respected businessmen and economists – including Keshub Mahindra, chairman of the $12.5bn Mahindra Group, Jamshyd Godrej of the multibillion-dollar conglomerate Godrej Group, Azim Premji of IT powerhouse Wipro...
...By contrast, the award for smartest outerwear thus far goes to Azim Premji, chairman of Wipro Ltd, whose red scarf was not only mediagenic and face-framing, nicely set off against a dark coat and suit, but...
...Wipro’s 2008 decision to give the top executive job to two people was later defended by Azim Premji, the Indian group’s chairman and majority owner, using similar mystic maths: “We required the power of...
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...In the last quarter, Cognizant, which was spun off from US business intelligence group Dun & Bradstreet in 1996, overtook Wipro to become India’s third-largest software exporter by sales....
...Nor does he believe that it was a mistake for Wipro to have tried out an unusual structure of two chief executives....
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