{"id":1018876,"date":"2026-07-04T08:20:29","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T02:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1018876"},"modified":"2026-07-04T08:21:53","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T02:51:53","slug":"hcltech-wins-1-14-billion-ai-deal-from-european-firm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/04\/hcltech-wins-1-14-billion-ai-deal-from-european-firm\/","title":{"rendered":"HCLTech wins $1.14-billion AI deal from European firm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HCL Tech on Friday said that it has won a strategic contract valued at $1.14 billion deal from a Europe-headquartered Fortune Global 50 company to transform and manage its digital workplace and enterprise networks. While the company did not disclose the client, industry sources identified it as Mercedes-Benz. <\/p>\n<p>The development marks one of the largest AI-led deals secured by an Indian IT services company in recent years and offering a rare bright spot for the sector amid weak discretionary technology spending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HCL Tech on Friday said that it has won a strategic contract valued at $1.14 billion deal from a Europe-headquartered Fortune Global 50 company to transform and manage its digital workplace and enterprise networks. While the company did not disclose the client, industry sources identified it as Mercedes-Benz. The development marks one of the largest AI-led deals secured by an Indian IT services company in recent years and offering a rare bright spot for the sector amid weak discretionary technology spending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1018876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1018876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1018903,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018876\/revisions\/1018903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1018876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1018876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1018876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}