NEW DELHI: India's second-largest IT services firm Infosys has set up a digital innovation and design centre in Providence, US, and said it has hired over 100 people in the state of Rhode Island.

This hiring is part of its target of creating 500 jobs in the state by 2022, Infosys has said in a statement.

Continuing with the programme it started in FY18, Infosys on Friday announced buyback of shares worth up to Rs 8,260 crore at Rs 800 per share. The firm is offering the repurchase price at a 16.89 per cent premium over Friday’s closing price of Rs 684.35 on the NSE.

“The board has approved a proposal for buying back equity shares for an amount aggregating up to Rs 8,260 crore, which is less than 15 per cent of the total paid-up share capital and free reserves of the company,” Infosys said.

Bengaluru: Another top-level executive of India's second largest software services company, Infosys has tendered his resignation after close to a two decade-long stint.

Sudip Singh, the global head of the energy, utilities, resources and services unit of Infosys has quit the company.

New Delhi: Concerns about a slowdown in US economy poses the biggest risk to India’s $167 billion information technology (IT) outsourcing industry as experts fear Fortune 1000 companies may cut spending on technology, hurting Tata Consultancy Services Ltd (TCS), Infosys Ltd and Wipro Ltd. Demand for digital services, which includes data crunching and artificial intelligence (AI) powered platforms, is still linked to the overall health of an economy, they say.

New Delhi: The twin trends of outsourcing larger technology contracts and Fortune 1000 companies awarding work that was earlier done internally to its vendors have led analysts and information technology executives to suggest that the sector could grow faster in the year starting 1 April.

These trends are the third positive development for India’s $167 billion information technology (IT) outsourcing sector, after the first six months of the current fiscal saw IT firms adding more employees and raising salaries of some of them by as much as 40%.

Shares of IT major Infosys climbed as much as 2 per cent to Rs 659 apiece on Monday amid reports the IT major may consider a second share buyback proposal of $1.6 billion (Rs 112.30 billion) in which some founding family members could tender their shares.

The share buyback could happen at around 20-25 per cent premium to the current market price, The Times of India reported. The announcement of the buyback can be a part of the board resolution when it meets on January 11, the report added.

Shares of information technology (IT) companies were under pressure on Friday with the Nifty IT index falling over 1 per cent and extending its decline into the fourth straight day, after the US indices extended falls as sentiment remained fragile.

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Infosys, Wipro, NIIT Technologies, Larsen & Toubro Infotech, KPIT Technologies, Tata Elxsi and Sonata Software were down between 1% to 2% on the National Stock Exchange (NSE).

The country's second largest IT services company, Infosys, on Thursday announced the appointment of Nilanjan Roy (pictured), a Bharti Airtel veteran, as its chief financial officer (CFO) effective from March 1.

Roy, who has been with Airtel for the past 13 years, is the global CFO at the telecom major, a position he has been holding since August 2015. The post of a full-time CFO at Infosys was vacant since November 17 after its then chief financial officer M D Ranganath resigned citing personal reasons.

New Delhi: A year into his role as chief executive officer of Infosys Ltd, Salil Parekh has made the first big hire at India’s second-largest information technology (IT) services firm by naming former Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. executive Mark Livingston the head of the consulting business.

New Delhi: Infosys on Friday said it has formed a joint venture (JV) with Hitachi, Panasonic Corporation and Pasona to strengthen its presence in the Japanese market.

As part of the agreement, Infosys will acquire 81 per cent of the shareholding in Hitachi Procurement Service Co, Hitachi's fully owned subsidiary, Infosys said in a statement.

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