World Consulting & Research Corporation (WCRC) has unveiled ‘Asia’s 100 Most Admired Brands’ list in Singapore that includes Honda, Hyundai, Samsung, Singapore Airlines, Emirates Airlines, Infosys, TCS, Alibaba.com.

Asia’s 100 Most Admired Brands is World Consulting & Research Corporation (WCRC) and ibrands360 research initiative involving the most significant brands from Asia.

Wipro, India’s third-largest information technology (IT) services company, announced a salary increase for its employees largely in line with those offered by its peers. The Azim Premji-led company, which follows a June appraisal cycle, said the average increase in salary for employees located in offshore locations was in the range of seven per cent while for those in onshore locations it was two per cent.

For high-performers, the quantum of raise was substantially higher, Saurabh Govil, global head (human resources), Wipro, said in a statement.

Bengaluru: Indian IT companies are looking to build up their presence in the social, mobile, analytics and cloud (SMAC) space, but they have a long way to go to catch up with their global outsourcing peers when it comes to offering elements of these new technologies to clients.

Infosys Ltd gets 8% of its $8.7 billion revenue from offering solutions to clients in the SMAC or digital space, a relatively small percentage when compared to global outsourcing giant Accenture Plc, which gets a fifth of its $30 billion revenue from client spending in that area.

India’s second largest information technology (IT) services provider, Infosys, has abandoned plans to develop its second centre in Thiruvanthapuram’s Technocity. Senior executives said lack of infrastructure at the project site was why.

Ramadas Kamath, executive vice-president at Infosys, who heads infrastructure, facilities and administration, confirmed a letter from Infosys had been sent to the Technopark authorities conveying the decision.

IT giant Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has been rated as the best company in India on various financial and operational parameters by Dun & Bradstreet.

The list of top 500 firms places Reliance Industries and ITC at the second and the third spots respectively.

NEW DELHI: The Tata Group has virtually ruled out re-acquiring Air India when the government decides to divest in it.

"That was 14 years ago (when Tatas were keen on buying back AI.) Not now," Tata Sons-Singapore Airlines (SIA) JV Vistara chairman Prasad Menon told TOI.

Shares of information technologies (IT) companies were trading firm on the bourses, gaining upto 4% each, on the back of positive corporate announcements and weakening rupee.

HCL Technologies, Tech Mahindra, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Persistent Systems and Cyient rose 3%-4% each, while Infosys, Wipro, Hexaware Technologies, Polaris Consulting & Services and MindTree gained 1%-2% each on the National Stock Exchange (NSE).

At a time when competitors such as Infosys, Wipro and Cognizant have been aggressive with inorganic growth (mergers and acquisitions), India’s largest information technology (IT) services provider, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), prefers to grow organically.

Rajesh Gopinathan, chief financial officer at TCS, had told the Business Standard in an earlier interview: “We are always open to large investments and we have the capacity to do it. We believe the opportunity for organic growth is so large that an acquisition-led growth strategy is not something that we are very keen on.”

MUMBAI: Debashis Poddar may have a busy two years ahead. The global head of mergers and acquisitions at Tata Consultancy ServicesBSE -0.23 % is expected to help boost the company's appetite for M&A deals when its rivals are dipping deep into their wallets to buy growth.

TCS, the country's largest software services company, has always been a conservative player in the M&A space, a trait it used to share with others in the IT industry. However, over the past few months, Infosys and Cognizant Technology Solutions have become more aggressive in buying companies, while Wipro is boosting investments in startups.

Tata Consultancy Services, the IT arm of the Tata Group, has been ranked fifty-seventh in valuation firm Brand Finance's latest list of the top 500 brands in the US. TCS's brand value has jumped nearly four times in the last five years to touch $8.7 billion now, Brand Finance said. In 2010, TCS's brand value was $2.3 billion, it said.

Interestingly tech companies have made it to the top three spots in the list. Apple is number one, followed by Google and Microsoft.

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