Tata Consultancy Services has said it will set up a new learning and development campus in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. The new campus will house upto 10,000 professionals and will offer TCS learning curriculum to those who join the company from colleges.
Set over an area of 82 acres in the Technopark region of the southern city, TCS will invest Rs 1,000 crore on the project which, when ready, will become the company’s primary training centre. “The 10,000-seat campus will set the global benchmark for corporate learning institutions in terms of the physical infrastructure available as well as the holistic professional and personal development programmes that will be available,” said N Chandrasekaran, CEO, Tata Consultancy Services.
“We are delighted to expand our presence significantly in this city, where our current training centre has been located since 1997.” The campus infrastructure will include classrooms, auditoriums, computer laboratories, a library, cafeterias, accommodation facilities as well as recreational and shopping areas. Construction will begin next year and is expected to be completed 36 months thereafter.
Search: Bing beats Yahoo to 2nd place
Yahoo search just dropped from No. 2 to No. 3.
According to a report released today by Nielsen Company, Microsoft’s search services, which include Bing search, overtook Yahoo search in the United States as the No. 2 search engine during the month of August.
Nielsen said that the Microsoft search services had taken 13.9 percent of the search market in the United States compared with Yahoo’s 13.1 percent. Nielsen also noted that neither company came close to Google’s domineering 65 percent share of the United States search market.
The Microsoft search growth coincides with a decrease in usage of Yahoo’s services.
It’s important to note that Bing and Yahoo announced a search deal in 2009 that would use Bing’s search technology to power the Yahoo search engine. Yahoo officially began using the search technology behind Microsoft Bing in August, but the entire transition to the service won’t be completed until 2012.
Nos. 4 and 5 on the list of United States search services are Ask.com, owned by IAC/InterActiveCorp, and AOL. Both account for 2 percent of the search market apiece and have remained stagnant, according to Nielsen’s research.