Indian IT services provider Wipro said it is keen to expand its footprint in France as the country offers huge potential for growth and has stepped up its investment in the region. “We invested in a senior leadership team. We are seeing excellent progress and we are extremely confident of our future in France,” Wipro CFO Manish Dugar said in a statement. Wipro believes that sales opportunities... 

With 1,964 H-1B visas in 2009, Indian IT major Wipro has topped the list of firms that got the coveted US visas for highly skilled professionals. Microsoft with 1,318 visas came next, with Intel (723) in third place, while Google with 211 in 25th place brought up the rear. IBM India (695), Infosys (440), Polaris Software Lab India (254) and Satyam (219) were the other major Indian visa getters. At... 

Wipro Ltd, India’s No. 3 software services exporter, is pursuing large outsourcing deals in Europe and is expanding operations in China that will help get more Japanese contracts, a top official said on Tuesday. The company also sees stronger demand for outsourcing in the Middle East and Latin America, and has not been impacted by the Dubai debt crisis that has shaken global markets and confidence... 

After months of despair and the shock of the IT township project being shelved there’s a glimmer of hope on the industrial front. Chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee has offered 45 acres each to Infosys and Wipro in Rajarhat New Town and will personally negotiate the price of the land with the two IT giants. Infosys and Wipro were supposed to get 90 acres each in the now uncertain IT township... 

World’s largest maker of fixed-line networks Alcatel-Lucent is planning to hive off one of its R&D units to Indian IT major Infosys by the end of August this year, according to a report published in a business daily. According to the news report, earlier this month, employees working with Alcatel-Lucent’s `Mature R&D’ division in Chennai were informed of the divestment. Presently... 

Software services firm Wipro Ltd said its Wipro Infotech unit had won a 6-½ year outsourcing contract worth Rs 1,182 crore ($228 million) from Employees State Insurance Corp. Wipro has been selected to implement the ESIC’s project aimed at improving healthcare services to its beneficiaries by providing online facilities to employers and insured people for registration, payment of premium and...