HCL Technologies
HCLTech earns dual recognition from TIME Magazine as one of World’s Best Companies and Most Sustainable Companies 2025
06 Oct 2025
Ranked #1 India-headquartered technology company for the second consecutive year; also named one of the World’s Most Sustainable Companies
HCLTech joins MIT Media Lab in the US to collaborate on next-gen AI research
06 Oct 2025
Gains access to MIT Media Lab’s research and networks to co-develop projects that translate meaningful AI innovation into scalable solutions.
Payments industry races toward AI-driven future, but lacks guardrails and confidence, according to new HCLTech report
03 Oct 2025
Research finds 99% of organizations are using AI, yet 91% of executives express concern about risks; 60% find AI fraud detectors ineffective
One of the world’s largest commercial vehicle manufacturers, headquartered in Sweden, selects HCLTech for AI-powered digital foundation services, renewing & expanding on original agreement
23 Sep 2025
Expands on the original agreement with one of the world’s largest commercial vehicle manufacturers, headquartered in Sweden
HCLTech appoints Amitabh Kant as Independent Director
12 Sep 2025
HCLTech announced today that its Board of Directors has appointed Amitabh Kant as Independent Director of the Company with effect from Sep 8, 2025.
SailPoint and HCLTech forge partnership to deliver modern identity security at enterprise scale in the age of AI
12 Sep 2025
Partnership to provide solutions built for the scale, speed and complexity of AI-enabled enterprise environments.
HCLTech recognized as a Leader in Avasant GCC Services 2025 RadarView™
01 Sep 2025
The report highlights HCLTech’s leadership in end-to-end GCC services, powered by GenAI, engineering excellence and deep domain expertise.
HCLTech, Pearson India and MeitY Startup Hub join forces to launch ARISE FOR YOU™, India’s largest student entrepreneurship movement
01 Sep 2025
India’s largest student entrepreneurship movement, designed to discover, nurture and elevate India’s youth. Grand national finale in March 2026.
HCLTech and Thought Machine partner to accelerate AI and cloud-led transformation of banks
26 Aug 2025
The partnership will enable banks to shift from legacy systems and frameworks to intelligent, autonomous financial institutions.
HCLTech commemorates the 49th anniversary of HCL Group by planting 49,000 saplings across India
12 Aug 2025
49,000 saplings planted across major Indian cities by employees, their families, non-profit partners, women’s collectives and community members
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Typewriters, the office machines that preceded computers
By Kiron Kasbekar | 10 Apr 2025
You see office tables today equipped with desktop computers or laptops. But think of the 1970s, and what would you have been seeing?
Wishful thinking about cars
By Kiron Kasbekar | 05 Apr 2025
Donald Trump may be many things, but a good economist he is not. Accustomed to dictating terms to people he has worked with,
The history of safety glass
By Kiron Kasbekar | 26 Mar 2025
You probably already knew that the world’s VIPs move around in cars with bullet-proof glass windscreen and windows. But did you know that ‘bulletproof glass’ is not really bulletproof?
German silver: used in cutlery, music, electricals - but it’s not silver
By Kiron Kasbekar | 20 Mar 2025
This material, which was first developed in China, not Germany, and is an alloy of copper, nickel and zinc, has lost its sheen in home uses, but finds favor in electrical engineering.
Pioneers – the Wrights and Glenn Curtiss launched the aircraft industry
By Kiron Kasbekar | 17 Mar 2025
First Orville and Wilbur Wright flew their plane, the ‘Wright Flyer’, from near a small town called Kitty Hawk. Then Glenn Curtiss built planes with a very different system of controls, which has lasted until now.
What do aircraft have in common with bicycles and motorcycles?
By Kiron Kasbekar | 17 Mar 2025
From chains and sprockets to direct drives—If someone asked you what aircraft have in common with bicycles and motorcycles, how would you respond?
Radar’s ancestors: From sound mirrors to modern detection technology
By Kiron Kasbekar | 11 Mar 2025
Radar has become a well-settled technology today, especially in the field of navigation.
Nokia Bell Labs: innovations in communication, computing, technology
By Omar Almeida | 08 Mar 2025
Bell Laboratories, or Bell labs, which has now become Nokia Bell Labs, is one of the most renowned research and development organizations in the history of science and technology.
Company story – Quaker Oats
By Kiron Kasbekar | 08 Mar 2024
Quaker Oats is a company whose products I remember from my childhood days. Years before a foreign exchange crisis caused the Indian government to impose curbs on consumer product imports, we used to see a host of foreign brands in the Indian market. Including Quaker Oats, which I remember eating when I was a child, and which has been available for the past two decades or more.
