INFOSYS:
IT major Infosys Technologies will start construction work on its first software development centre in West Bengal, at Rajarhat near here, in three to six months, a top company official said today.
"We have paid the money and got possession of the land. We hope to start construction work in three to six months," Infosys Technologies Executive Co-ChairmanS Gopalakrishnan said on the sidelines of a CII event here.
He said in the first phase, 5,000 jobs would be created and the approximate investment would be Rs 100 crore.
He said while 35,000 professionals had been already hired so far this fiscal, another 10,000 would be hired by the end of March, 2012. The present headcount of the company is 1.40 lakh.
When asked whether Infosys would shift its focus outside the US and Europe due to the slowdown in these economies, he said, "Any shift will take time."
"We are looking at the markets of China, South Africa,Malaysia and Indonesia," he added.
Gopalakrishnan said despite the global turmoil, the IT sector has shown resilience and there have been no lay-offs.
"There would, however, be consolidation in IT sector and those who have the niche capability will survive,"
FACEBOOK:
Facebook has said it plans to hire thousands of employees over the next year and add an engineering team to its office in New York.
"We will hire as many high quality engineers as we can here in New York," Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg told reporters at an event also attended by New York mayor Michael Bloomberg.
"We're going to grow as quickly as we can in New York," Sandberg said.
She said Facebook would also be adding engineers at its Palo Alto, California, headquarters and in Seattle in addition to New York.
An engineering team in New York would be the company's first outside of the West Coast.
Facebook, which has more than 800 million members and is expected to go public next year, currently employs some 3,000 people
Sandberg said Facebook had plans to dramatically expand its overall workforce.
"We will be adding thousands of employees in the next year," she said.
Facebook currently has around 100 employees in its New York offices. Most of them work in marketing and recruiting.
Sandberg declined to say how exactly many people Facebook planned to employ in New York. But she said the company will probably need more office space
IT major Infosys Technologies will start construction work on its first software development centre in West Bengal, at Rajarhat near here, in three to six months, a top company official said today.
"We have paid the money and got possession of the land. We hope to start construction work in three to six months," Infosys Technologies Executive Co-ChairmanS Gopalakrishnan said on the sidelines of a CII event here.
He said in the first phase, 5,000 jobs would be created and the approximate investment would be Rs 100 crore.
He said while 35,000 professionals had been already hired so far this fiscal, another 10,000 would be hired by the end of March, 2012. The present headcount of the company is 1.40 lakh.
When asked whether Infosys would shift its focus outside the US and Europe due to the slowdown in these economies, he said, "Any shift will take time."
"We are looking at the markets of China, South Africa,Malaysia and Indonesia," he added.
Gopalakrishnan said despite the global turmoil, the IT sector has shown resilience and there have been no lay-offs.
"There would, however, be consolidation in IT sector and those who have the niche capability will survive,"
FACEBOOK:
Facebook has said it plans to hire thousands of employees over the next year and add an engineering team to its office in New York.
"We will hire as many high quality engineers as we can here in New York," Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg told reporters at an event also attended by New York mayor Michael Bloomberg.
"We're going to grow as quickly as we can in New York," Sandberg said.
She said Facebook would also be adding engineers at its Palo Alto, California, headquarters and in Seattle in addition to New York.
An engineering team in New York would be the company's first outside of the West Coast.
Facebook, which has more than 800 million members and is expected to go public next year, currently employs some 3,000 people
Sandberg said Facebook had plans to dramatically expand its overall workforce.
"We will be adding thousands of employees in the next year," she said.
Facebook currently has around 100 employees in its New York offices. Most of them work in marketing and recruiting.
Sandberg declined to say how exactly many people Facebook planned to employ in New York. But she said the company will probably need more office space
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