After Silicon Valley, it’s Bangalore!
As per Silicon.com’s hot techspot report, Bangalore is the number 2 techspot worldwide, i.e. among the top 20 tech destinations that are making the biggest contribution to the technology landscape.
Of the top 20 hotspots, India has the highest number of hot techspots (Bangalore, Hyderabad, Chennai and Pune), US has 3 and UK has 2.
Do you really agree with this? I mean is Bangalore really comparable to Silicon Valley? Forget the revenue impact and the number of jobs created, what about the quality of high end jobs that are happening in Bangalore? The number of patents?
What’s your opinion?
Interestingly, Bangalore engineers are the costliest in the country!
The complete list:
Silicon Valley,Bangalore,London,Tokyo,Boston,Cambridge,Shanghai,Tel Aviv,Seoul,Beijing,Chennai,Pune, Singapore,Helsinki,Moscow,Hong Kong,Hyderabad,New York,Sydney,Shenzhen.
Interestingly, Asia leads the tech graph and has 11 hotspots!
Lets say cheers for this achievements.
I believe all these studies need to be taken with a pinch of salt.
As I believe the quality of jobs is going HIGH end. Slowly but surely.
Sri
I don’t buy this.
And when u look at the number of patents, not at all!!!
I haven’t read the report but i believe that their parameter is revenue going through any city’s Software firm or Headcount of IT Pro . Banglore do stand a chance in that sense .
Too be qualified as a “HotSPot” patent are not the right yardstick i guess . Its the impact you make on Tech landscape which matters . MiT has more patents to their credit than Stanford but Standford is the Univ to make impact on TEch.
having said that its a good news for Bangalore Folks ..Enjoy Maadi
yeah..if u take the # of software coolies that we have, its true..infact dont you see a correlation btn the last post on Microsoft and employee’s frustration vs. the crap shit that’s coming to India?
We might as well beat silicon valley in terms of revenues..its just that we dont call it shots.
They do.
absolutely do not agree. There are virtually no high level architectures created in Bangalore. In revenue terms Bangalore cannot feature as no. 2 hotspot, as Google’s New York office probably generates more revenue value than all of Bangalore. That report possibly looks at headcount. FYI, Google is less than 10 yrs old and bigger than all Indian IT majors combined.
The report is clearly flawed, because if you look at headcount Mumbai probably scores ahead of Pune, thanks to TCS, Seepz, Reliance Infocomm and a few other hit spots, but Mumbai does not list in the top 20.
Well, they will have a reason to put those Indian cities up there on the list. Maybe Bangalore is a Far second.
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Alright. We’ve a huge number of cheap english speaking software laborers. I believe we should be on #1
Be patient and be proud of what we Indians have achieved in a decade. It takes time for ANY hub in the world to mature from being a services provider or a captive center for its parent company, to make and market technology worldwide. When Japanese started exporting their ‘cheap’ engines to US in 1960s, they were blacklisted by the Automobile lobby in US. From that point on, it took them two decades to build the quality and trust. Now Honda engines are the best in the world. You can take the example of Lenovo as well.
I do agree. Bangalore is a extra ordinary city with flawless tech. Bangalore is gaining its reputation through overseas. After all being a “sys”ter city of san francisco. no doubt on that.