Infosys to Nearly Double Work Force in U.S. Market

December 3, 2009 at 1:00 am PT

Infosys Technologies Ltd. (INFY) plans to nearly double its work force in the U.S. and remains on the lookout for acquisition targets in Germany, France and Japan, its chief executive said.

India’s second-largest software exporter by revenue after Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. is planning to hire 1,000 employees in the U.S., Chief Executive S. Gopalakrishnan said in an interview.

The company, which had 1,200 U.S. employees as of March 31, had said in April it would hire more staff there. As of Sept. 30, it had a total of 105,453 employees.

Infosys gets about 66 percent of its revenue from the U.S. market. The company joins other Indian software exporters in gradually stepping up hiring to prepare for an expected increase in outsourcing deals as technology spending makes a modest comeback in developed nations.

Read the rest of this post on the original site

Tagged with: acquisitions, Dhanya Ann Thoppil, digital, economy, frontpage, hardware, India, Infosys Technologies, S. Gopalakrishnan, software, Tata Consultancy Services, technology spending, The Wall Street Journal

comments so far. Add yours.

Must-Reads from other Web sites

“You Get on the Internet and Pretty Soon You’re Drunk”: The Orthodox at Citi Field

Sean Patrick Cooper, Contributor, The Awl

Meet the Tireless Entrepreneur Who Squatted at AOL

Daniel Terdiman, Senior Writer, CNET

Mark Zuckerberg’s Unpleasant New Life

Felix Salmon, Finance Blogger, Reuters

Anyone Can Do It. Data Journalism Is the New Punk.

Simon Rogers, News editor, The Guardian

Fashion World Mulls Facebook IPO’s Impact

Rachel Strugatz, Editor, Women’s Wear Daily

The Unabomber’s Pen Pal

Jeffrey R. Young, Senior Editor, Chronicle of Higher Education

About Voices

Along with original content and posts from across the Dow Jones network, this section of AllThingsD includes Must-Reads From Other Web Sites — pieces we’ve read, discussions we’ve followed, stuff we like. Six posts from external sites are included here each weekday, but we only run the headlines. We link to the original sites for the rest. These posts are explicitly labeled, so it’s clear that the content comes from other Web sites, and for clarity’s sake, all outside posts run against a pink background.

We also solicit original full-length posts and accept some unsolicited submissions.

Voices is edited by Beth Callaghan.