The closure of applications for the H-1B visa for the year, just a week after they opened on April 1, suggests that the ceiling needs to be higher than the current 65,000, said R. Chandrashekhar, president of Nasscom, which represents the IT and IT-enabled industry in India.

This also showed that the recent doubling of the H-1B visa fee to $4,000 had not affected the demand, he told The Hindu.

N R N Murthy, co-founder Infosys, may have stirred up a hornet's nest by saying Indian IT firms behave like immigration agents, but the model that he claims he created to be less dependent on visa's did not yield the desired results at Infosys, say industry sources.

In 2010, Infosys, India's second largest IT services provider, had started experimenting with a model called 'extreme offshore'. This was to help Infosys reduce its dependence on H1 and L1 visas.

Apex IT industry body Nasscom will set up a warehouse in port city Visakhapatnam under its 10,000 Startups initiative to nurture technology entrepreneurs with innovative ideas.

The entrepreneurs will be mentored and funded by venture capitalists and other investors under the Nasscom initiative.

The National Association of Software & Services (NASSCOM) today announced the inauguration of its first warehouse in Chennai today.

The MoU in this regard was signed between Department of Information Technology, Tamil Nadu, acting through the Electronics Corporation of Tamilnadu and NASSCOM in presence of Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu J Jayalalitha over video conferencing.

As the captains of the $108-billion IT services sector meet for the 24th edition of Nasscom Leadership Forum starting Wednesday, the question on everybody’s minds is — how to revive growth amid tough times?

The export-driven industry aims to generate $350 billion revenue by 2025. At a time when growth is waning, the targeted compounded annual growth rate of 11 per cent seems like a tough task.

Information technology (IT) industry body Nasscom on Thursday projected a 10-12 per cent growth for the Indian software services segment for the financial year 2017, lagging the 12-14 per cent growth forecast it had made for the current financial year.

A volatile global economy and currency fluctuations, especially the weakening of the rupee against the US dollar, continued to impact India’s information technology and business process management (BPM) services segments.

CHENNAI: Nasscom 10,000 Startup Program has partnered with department of industrial policy and promotion (DIPP), Government of India, along with other partners to host 'Startup India, Stand up India' event in Delhi on January 16.

The event will be addressed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union ministers Arun Jaitley and Nirmala Sitharaman and DIPP secretary Amitabh Kant.

Nasscom has shared its perspectives on issues related to differential pricing for data services in a statement today. The National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM) states that the matter needs to be considered carefully to study the possible impact on the principles of Net Neutrality.

Nasscom reiterated its position that any tariff plan should not restrict right for the consumer to choose. It also added that data services should allow innovation without permission and should have no differential data charges for different apps.

Facebook founder and chief executive officer Mark Zuckerberg lobbied on Monday with National Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom) and leading start-up founders, such as Snapdeal’s Kunal Bahl, and sought their support for its Free Basics programme in India.

Zuckerberg made a pitch that the Free Basics concept supported net neutrality and to ensure more people would get access to the Internet in his call with the Nasscom Internet Council, led by Sanjeev Bikchandani, its chairman and founder of job portal Naukri and Kunal Bahl, co-founder of Snapdeal.

Nasscom, apex association of information technology (IT) companies, says a proposal before the American national legislature to raise H-1B and L-1 visa fees would substantially hurt us.

The proposal raise would cost Indian IT outsourcing companies at least a combined extra $400 million annually, it said on Thursday. This could kill the competitive edge Indian IT has over global peers.

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