John Ribeiro

SoftBrands Manufacturing, a Minneapolis-based supplier of enterprise resource planning and supply-chain management software for medium-size enterprises, is moving key product software development and maintenance to India and China.

Oracle Corp. plans to make India its key product software development and customer services base outside the US, according to an executive of the company.

India's Finance Minister has ordered a probe into the "improper payments" that Xerox Corp. said its Indian joint venture had made in connection with government contracts.

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India is emerging as a laboratory for testing out new technologies and business models for narrowing the digital divide between urban and rural people in a developing economy.

India is emerging as a laboratory for testing out new technologies and business models for narrowing the digital divide between urban and rural people in a developing economy.

Indian and Chinese officials have talked a lot recently about helping each other reposition their respective IT industries, to take advantage of cost efficiencies as well as software, hardware and services trends.

Dell Computer Corp. has set up a software development facility in Bangalore, India, to design, develop, and test software for enterprise-system products, company Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Michael Dell announced Tuesday at a press briefing here.