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Top headlines: India to tax blockchain system, UK recognises Covaxin

Future Retail goes to the Supreme Court in the latest round of its fight with Amazon. More on that story in Business Standard's top headlines at this hour.

The Great Return to office begins in IT after a long Covid-induced hiatus

TCS, the largest IT services player, has told all its employees to be back at their deputed locations by November 15

Optiemus to onboard 2,000 in 2 years, raise production capacity

Electronics manufacturing services firm Optiemus Electronics is planning to expand its production capacity and aims to increase its headcount by around 2,000 people in next two years, a senior company official said. The company's existing production capacity is likely to be exhausted within two years and it has started looking for locations to set-up a new manufacturing unit, Optiemus Electronics Limited (OEL) managing director A Gururaj told PTI. "We will have to wait and see how much volume our customers will look at, but I do believe that over the next one to one-and-a-half years, at least a couple of thousand people will be added on the shop floor, if not more," Gururaj said. At present, the company has a team of 300 people. OEL is among the electronic manufacturing services firms that have qualified for production-linked incentive (PLI) schemes for mobile phones, IT hardware and telecom products. The government is giving incentives to companies under the PLI scheme based on t

Indian IT's Q2 results to reflect growing digital transformation demand

Key metric to watch will be TCV wins, and attrition

Cognizant acquires a digital engg firm, its sixth acquisition in 2021

The company continues expanding in key strategic focus areas for digital -- digital engineering, data and artificial intelligence, cloud and the Internet of Things

West Bengal government to review pending IT projects in state licon

The West Bengal government will hold a meeting with IT executives to review the pending projects in the state, IT and Industry minister Partha Chatterjee said on Thursday.

NSE tech subsidiary acquires majority stake in Cloudxchange.io

NSEIT Ltd, the IT-services focused subsidiary of NSE, on Wednesday said it has acquired majority stake in integrated cloud service provider Cloudxchange.io. However, the financial details of the deal were not disclosed. With this addition of Cloudxchange.io, NSEIT will offer end-to-end digital transformation solutions from cloud to security, NSEIT said in a statement. Founded in 2016, Cloudxchange.io is a multi-cloud managed service provider for AWS, Azure, Google and Oracle Cloud. It has expanded its offerings to cloud consulting, multi-cloud aggregation, cloud back-up and disaster recovery (DR). It has over 250 enterprise clients across sectors including Banking, financial services and insurance (BFSI), manufacturing, logistics and the government. "In the current pandemic situation, India's financial services sector is focused on migrating to virtual operations. This need of the hour has led to an increasing demand for secure, scalable, and cost efficient infrastructure, thus ..

Wipro Q1 preview: PAT may jump 14-19% YoY; eyes on EBIT margin, guidance

Wipro Q1 preview: Nomura expects Q1 PAT to come in at Rs 2,732.1 crore, up 14.3 per cent YoY

Wipro ups IT services revenue guidance to 8-10% in April-June quarter

Wipro on Friday revised upwards its IT services revenue outlook to 8-10 per cent sequential growth in the June 2021 quarter, following the completion of its $1.45 billion buyout of Capco

IT industry needs a 'skiller' app to double digital growth in 5 years

Access to digital talent has been identified as a key hurdle to doubling growth in the industry in the next five years. Here's how it's trying to bridge the gap

3i Infotech appoints Thompson Gnanam as new managing director, global CEO

3i Infotech Ltd on Thursday said Thompson Gnanam has been appointed as the company's managing director and global CEO, with immediate effect.

Automakers told to ramp up IT infrastructure amid cyber-attack threats

The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways on Sunday alerted NHAI, NHIDCL and its other wings besides automobile makers to augment their IT security systems after reports regarding threats of possible cyber attacks targeted at the Indian transport sector. The ministry said it has received an alert from the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) about possible cyber attacks. "The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways received an alert from CERT-In regarding targeted intrusion activities directed towards Indian Transport sector with possible malicious intentions. The Ministry has advised departments and organisations under transport sector to strengthen the security posture of their infrastructure," the Ministry said in a statement. It has requested NIC, National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), National Highways and Infrastructure Development Corporation (NHIDCL), Indian Road Congress (IRC), Indian Academy of Highway Engineers (IAHE), State PWDs, Testing agencies and

Phaneesh Murthy joins BPM firm Sutherland as CEO of its IT services biz

US-headquartered Sutherland has been trying to build a strong IT services practice for some time, with limited success.

Covid-19 pandemic prompts health care firms to spend more on IT: Report

According to the data by SalesEdge, the research arm of TechCircle, the total IT spending increased to $376 million in 2020 so far from $368 million last year

Infosys inks pact to acquire Blue Acorn iCi for around Rs 915 crore

This acquisition deepens Infosys' capabilities in the Adobe, Magento, Salesforce Commerce and Shopify ecosystems

Promoting IT sector to make Tamil Nadu as hub of South Asia: Govt

Tamil Nadu was actively promoting the Information Technology sector with the objective of making it an Information and Communication Technology hub of South Asia

IT sector share in Nifty 50 at five-year high with overall weight of 15%

Combined market cap of five top IT companies, which are part of the index, is up 6.5% since the beginning of 2020 against a 6.6 per cent decline in market cap of the index

Hexaware plans voluntary delisting, board to discuss proposal next week

Analysts see delisting as a move towards making the company leaner before any further step of a merger or complete

Covid-19 crisis: IT services companies pad up to reopen offices for staff

Apart from issuing guidelines for employees with dos and don'ts, the companies are using technology-led solutions to ensure social distancing at workplaces.

Cognizant's planned layoffs: IT employees' union wants a tripartite meeting

A Nasdaq-listed IT services firm, Cognizant had said last week that it was planning to cut around 13,000 jobs