California-based Juniper Networks is planning a major expansion to its research and development center in Bangalore, India. The company will add 750 seats and 450 equipment racks at a new site (Prestige Exora Business Park) in Bangalore over the next two years. The company currently has 1,800 staff members and...
Bangalore Buyer for Bothell medical device maker
Cardiac Science of Bothell, Washington has agreed to be acquired for $2.30 per share by a medical equipment company based in Bangalore, India. The all-cash deal represents a 10 percent premium to Monday's closing price of Cardiac Science shares, the companies said Tuesday. Opto Circuits (India) Limited of Bangalore, which...
Microsoft captive R&D expands to Bangalore
Microsoft India, which currently has an offshore product development center in Hyderabad, the capital of Andhra Pradesh, announced the expansion of its activities further south to Bangalore in Karnataka, to focus on product development and applied research in web search and online ad technologies. "It will initially have 200 employees...
SAP leans on partners to create R&D ecosystem in India
German software company SAP, AG started a co-innovation lab ( COIL) in Bangalore in April 2009, to collaborate with technology, service and software companies to develop new solutions. It is the third such location after Palo Alto, California and Tokyo, Japan and already employs 4,200 people. By 2010, COIL completed...
National Instruments Captive Center files global patents from India
Austin, Texas based National Instruments is making India one of its key R&D centers, with a 40 per cent increase in investments in its Bangalore facility. Phil Hester, Senior Vice President of R&D said, “The India R&D center is one of the strategic growth areas for National Instruments. We plan...
3M building R&D lab in south India
3M India Limited announced that a new R&D facility will be established in Bangalore by middle 2010 to develop products for local markets and to connect better technology to customers, according to Inge Thulin, Executive Vice-President, 3M International Operations. Globally, 3M has 35 labs across the world. In keeping with...