Monday, August 27, 2007

Tech firm Wipro to bring 500 jobs to Atlanta

In a story by Maria Saporta, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that Wipro Technologies, an information technology and software services firm based in India, plans to bring at least 500 jobs to metro Atlanta within three years. According to the story, Azim Premji, chairman of Wipro, said at a breakfast event hosted by AGL Resources that the company researched 600 locations before selecting Atlanta as the site of its first global development center in the United States. High on the company's priority list were a critical mass of universities and access to a major airport, he said.

The Atlanta Journal Constitution

The Parties note that Wipro's jobs equal 1/4 of a Toyota Plant.

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