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Hiring by India’s top IT exporters is expected to drop by nearly 40% on-year in the current fiscal, underscoring the demand uncertainty and slowdown in technology services that is weighing down the $245-billion industry.IT services majors are estimated to hire between 50,000 to 100,000 employees during fiscal 2024, according to data from staffing firm Xpheno. This will mark a precipitous decline from the net hiring of over 250,000 by these companies in the previous year.

News Corp Australia has quietly axed a major project that would have allowed small businesses to buy advertising across the company’s publications, and made dozens of people redundant.

Alphabet Inc. illegally ended contract employment for a majority of Google Help workers as they were trying to unionize, organizers alleged in a complaint to the US labor board. The Alphabet Workers Union accused the internet giant of violating federal labor law, which prohibits retaliation against employees for organizing.

Cognizant Technology Solutions forecast third-quarter revenue above estimates on Wednesday as more businesses turn to the IT services provider to digitize their operations, sending its shares up more than 6% after the bell. The company also said CFO Jan Siegmund would retire in early 2024.

hiring platform for students and graduates, on Tuesday said it has raised $5 million from Japan-based human resources firm Mynavi, online education provider Coursera and others. The Delhi-based startup is Coursera’s first India-based investment. Unstop will use the capital to enhance its technology, marketing, product and sales functions, as per a statement.

AI (GenAI) in their strategies. As per a ToI report, companies are already integrating GenAI to expedite code generation, optimize labor-intensive tasks, and facilitate system integration. However, analysts anticipate that widespread enterprise adoption of GenAI is still a few quarters away.

Bill Shorten says government must stand up to big technology firms and consultants to ensure services benefit citizens, are delivered ethically, and costly failures are avoided.

IBM's second-quarter revenue fell short of Wall Street expectations on Wednesday, bogged down by a decline in sales of its mainframe computers as businesses cut tech spending. IT companies have warned of more pain as businesses striving to cut costs in the face of rising inflation snip tech budgets, hurting the industry that saw rapid growth during the COVID-19 pandemic when businesses rushed to adopt hybrid work. IT majors such as Accenture and India's Tata Consultancy Services have also flagged demand weakness, with the former missing market estimates for quarterly revenue last month after its North America revenue grew at its slowest rate in about three years.

EY has told a Senate inquiry that the firm runs “a very different tax practice” to PwC and does not have “partners roaming the market with solutions looking for problems”.

The Big Four accounting firms are trimming their consulting ranks—sometimes months after a promotion—after forecasting slower growth as more businesses scale back on third-party help in certain areas. The firms—Deloitte, Ernst & Young, KPMG and PricewaterhouseCoopers—are facing the consequences of aggressive hiring over the past two years as the pandemic spurred higher demand for consulting in areas such as corporate strategy, coupled with lower attrition than they expected during the first half of the year. The recent rounds of layoffs have been heavily focused on the advisory sides of the firms.

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Google’s Bard artificial intelligence chatbot will answer a question about how many pandas live in zoos quickly, and with a surfeit of confidence. Ensuring that the response is well-sourced and based on evidence, however, falls to thousands of outside contractors from companies including Appen Ltd. and Accenture Plc, who can make as little as $14 an hour and labor with minimal training under frenzied deadlines, according to several contractors, who declined to be named for fear of losing their jobs.

Innovation and advancement have been a necessity for almost every industry out there, and software development companies are making sure to bring all those necessary changes for almost every business out there. Software development professionals of IT companies are taking advantage of advanced technologies like Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Blockchain, and various others to make businesses and the world better and more innovative.

The SAYA Group, NCR’s leading real estate developer, has introduced ‘Biztop’ Business Suites, featuring fully-furnished studio apartments at its project SAYA South X, Greater Noida West’s prominent commercial destination. Built from 7th to 25th floor with sleek design with modern amenities, the development is set to be carried out with an investment of approximately Rs 100 crore.

KPMG said on Tuesday it will spend $2 billion on artificial intelligence and cloud services through an expanded partnership with Microsoft, closely following Accenture in betting on the latest technologies to weather a slowdown in advisory deals. The accounting firm said it will incorporate AI into its core audit, tax and advisory services for clients as part of the five-year partnership.

In a bid to include latest technologies like AI and cloud services, KPMG, will spend $2 billion on the same through an expanded partnership with Microsoft, the accounting firm said on Tuesday. The move has come come after Accenture is heading towards the latest technologies to weather a slowdown in advisory deals.

Q1 results 2023: First quarter results season for the financial year 2023-24 kickstart this week, however Dalal Street is eagerly waiting for 12th July 2023 when IT giants Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) and HCL Technologies will declare their Q1FY24 results. On the following day i.e. on 13th July 2023, Wipro would declare its Q1 earnings for the financial year 2023-24.

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tech hiring, the IT sector has started seeing some green shoots of demand starting July, according to staffing firms. There has been a 10% increase in the overall hiring requirements in July compared to last month, they added, signalling good news for the IT sector and some pick-up in demand in the coming quarter after a long lull. The growth in headcount, however, will only be reflected in the October-December quarter, said experts. The increased demand is led by companies having better visibility of demand. Despite the pick-up, the rate of recovery is still slower than anticipated, and significantly lower than the peak demand witnessed in 2021, they added. "IT services are expected to open up in this quarter to some extent. This is as hiring has been on the back burner for quite some time and utilisation levels have peaked to over 80-85%," said Sunil C, chief executive at TeamLease Digital. The global capability centres (GCC) and engineering research and development (ER&D) demand flow has been steady, said Sunil, adding that there is a 10% increase in the overall hiring requirements in July compared to last month. Saravanan Balasundaram, chief executive of staffing firm Handigital, said that the current uptick in demand has only started in the past two-three weeks and will likely result in offers only in the October-December quarter. «From barely any recruitment drives over almost two quarters, we have seen almost five to six recruitment drives planned by companies for lateral hiring in the past three weeks,» said Balasundaram.

«There are discussions happening with other telcos in different forms,» Saurabh Kumar Sahu, Managing Director, and Lead — Communications, Media and Technology, Accenture in India told ETTelecom, adding that 5G has to be treated like a «very sharp digital enabler» and not like a digital capex solution for operational efficiency. The top executive further said that the multinational is working with more than one telco in the area of next generation technology.

Now in its fourth edition, ETPWLA 2023 is India's most prestigious awards programme, recognising and honouring present-day and next-generation women leaders who embody excellence in business, entrepreneurship, innovation, and leadership. The list of shortlisted nominees for ETPWLA 2023 represent exceptional women leaders, trailblazers, and changemakers who have made a significant impact and achieved critical milestones in their respective fields over the past year.