{"id":1040305,"date":"2026-10-02T07:57:37","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T02:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1040305"},"modified":"2026-10-02T08:07:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T02:37:09","slug":"ai-pressure-client-caution-cloud-indian-it-earnings-in-september-quarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/02\/ai-pressure-client-caution-cloud-indian-it-earnings-in-september-quarter\/","title":{"rendered":"AI pressure, client caution cloud Indian IT earnings in September quarter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s top IT companies are set to report another quarter of weak earnings and could trim their annual revenue growth forecasts, five brokerages said, as AI-driven pricing pressure and tepid spending by clients bite. <\/p>\n<p>The rise of AI-based technology has battered the $315-billion information technology sector, especially vulnerable because of its reliance on billable hours, forcing companies to rejig business models and offer steep discounts. The sector has been among the market&#8217;s worst performers over the past year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s top IT companies are set to report another quarter of weak earnings and could trim their annual revenue growth forecasts, five brokerages said, as AI-driven pricing pressure and tepid spending by clients bite. The rise of AI-based technology has battered the $315-billion information technology sector, especially vulnerable because of its reliance on billable hours, forcing companies to rejig business models and offer steep discounts. The sector has been among the market&#8217;s worst performers over the past year.<\/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":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1040305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040305","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=1040305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1040306,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040305\/revisions\/1040306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1040305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1040305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1040305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}