'His working style differs from his father as he is a quick decision-maker.'

People mostly say 'work hard and party harder', but Premji's concept is 'work hard and work harder'. With close to 70 per cent of his wealth pledged to charity, Premji is also the epitome of a true leader who makes a mark in giving back most of his wealth to society.

Such partnership will not only give the company an opportunity to showcase its expertise in new technology areas, they will also help in boosting its brand image with clients and employees

L&T is pursuing a controlling stake of 66 per cent in the mid-tier IT firm, for Rs 10,700 crore.

Squeezing growth prospects in IT services firms and higher compensation in technology centres run by global companies are the two factors driving this trend.

The CEO's compensation included a fixed salary component of Rs 6.07 crore, variable pay of Rs 10.96 crore and perquisites worth Rs 7.64 crore.

IBM started using Watson last year in India in two of its key divisions, services and infrastructure, for the bulk of its 150,000 employees as part of its "predictive retention" programme.

This time, not only would the job cuts be higher, but they would be even more broad-based, encompassing various levels of employees.

At present, other large players in the grocery and food retail space include Flipkart Supermart, Bigbasket, and Grofers.

The all-cash transaction is likely to be complete in the first quarter of 2020, subject to regulatory clearance.

Mindtree plans to recommend to its investors not to subscribe to the open offer, citing low offer price, among key reasons. The founders were exploring several other options, including coming out with a counter open offer, with the backing of a financial investor.

According to Nasscom, engineering services exports had grown at 13 per cent in 2017 compared to six per cent rise in IT services exports and eight per cent in business process management (BPM). It had also recorded the highest growth in the last three years, reports Debasis Mohapatra.

It had reorganised its India business by carving out public sector undertaking and government businesses. Besides the company had also split its India and West Asia businesses.

Tepid growth in verticals like banking and finance, healthcare, retail and automotive will drag overall IT spends in the current year, reports Debasis Mohapatra.

The penalty collected from Mazumdar-Shaw will be donated to a charitable organisation of her choice.

Their plan to build a product portfolio will discourage global software vendors such as Oracle, Microsoft and Fidelity, among others, from building a strategic relationship with these big Indian IT firms, reports Debasis Mohapatra.

The company, which had made voluntary disclosures about the bribery incident to the US authorities, also said with this resolution, there was no pending investigations against Cognizant.

Siddhartha's knack for value investment dates back to 1995 when he infused capital in Kshema Technologies, which was acquired by MphasiS. He also took an early exposure in Mindtree way back in 1999. Since 1995, he had invested in more than 15 technology companies including chip-designing firm Ittiam Software, and GlobalEdge Technologies, among others, says Debasis Mohapatra.

Rising protectionist policies followed under Trump administration has prompted all IT services players to hire more locals in onsite geographies, especially in US.

The company is looking at building the 'bench' of employees in reserve, to be prepared for emerging demands, beside keeping staff attrition in control. Maintaining decent bench strength would help in implementing new projects.