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Today (11th June 2021)Shares of information technology (IT) companies were in demand on the bourses with Wipro and Tech Mahindra hitting all-time highs, while Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) and Infosys were quoting close to their respective record highs on the BSE. Besides Wipro and Tech Mahindra, a total of 10 stocks including Mastek, Mindtree, Happiest Minds Technologies, Mphasis, and Coforge too hit their new highs in Friday's intra-day deals.TCS, meanwhile, gained 3 percent to quote at Rs 3,309, while Infosys was up 2 percent at Rs 1,451.55. TCS had hit a record high of Rs 3,358 on April 9, 2021, and Infosys had touched a high of Rs 1,480 on April 12. Among other individual stocks, Tech Mahindra hit a record high of Rs 1,082, up 2 percent on the BSE, surpassing its earlier high of Rs 1,081.35 touched on January 11, 2021. In the past one week, the stock has gained 6 percent. Read more

Ashok Soota, a pioneer of India’s information technology services industry, has headed three outsourcing companies including one of the nation’s largest, Wipro Ltd., and taken two of them public. Happiest Minds Technologies' was the latest startup, which was oversubscribed 151 times and was founded in the year 2011 when he was 68. The Rs 700-crore initial public offer (IPO) of his IT service company, making it the eighth biggest IPO of the last decade. The IPO of the Mumbai-headquartered digital IT services provider was subscribed 351.5 times by non-institutional investors and 77.4 times by Qualified Institutional Buyers (QIB) during September 7-9. Retail demand for the issue was strong as well, garnering 70.94 times subscription. Happiest Minds, which gets almost all of its revenue from digital services, is one of two IPOs this week to woo Indian investors. About 13 years ago, he took his previous company, Mindtree, to an IPO, and that issue was oversubscribed 103 times. Read more