Concerted push: The Indian ICT sector is lobbying hard as the new US administration under Trump considers putting in place visa restrictions.
MUMBAI: Automation and the new US administration were the big unknowns at the Indian tech sector's annual shindig this week, with machines threatening to take away thousands of jobs and concerns over possible visa rule changes in the key American market.
But senior executives from the US$150bil (RM667.9bil) industry, which rose to prominence at the turn of the century by helping Western firms solve the "Y2K" bug, said companies with skilled English-speaking staff and low costs could not be written off yet.
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