{"id":21471,"date":"2014-11-25T15:56:21","date_gmt":"2014-11-25T10:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/?p=21471"},"modified":"2014-11-25T22:00:25","modified_gmt":"2014-11-25T16:30:25","slug":"microsoft-asks-for-free-space-in-technopark-but-government-says-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/microsoft-asks-for-free-space-in-technopark-but-government-says-no\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft asks for free space in Technopark, but government says No!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year there were reports that global software giant <a href=\"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/microsoft-coming-to-technopark-trivandrum\/\" target=\"_blank\">Microsoft is coming to Technopark Trivandrum<\/a>. Now a recent report by\u00a0Deccan Chronicle says that, Kerala Government has declined Microsoft&#8217;s request for free space in Technopark.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>According to the report, Microsoft had sought a space of about 2,000 sq ft to start a training centre and cloud computing facility.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>However, Government of Kerala rejected Microsoft\u2019s request in fear of controversy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThough Microsoft\u2019s presence in the State would be a boost to its IT sector, we cannot give space free of cost as it could rake up a controversy.\u00a0 It could set a bad precedence as other leading companies may also raise similar demands.&#8221; said IT dept official to Deccan Chronicle. Global firms like Oracle and TCS have already acquired space in Technopark at the prescribed rates.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After the government declined IT giant&#8217;s proposal, there had been no response from Microsoft.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Microsoft\u2019s proposal for free space in Technopark first came last year. Back then some preliminary discussions had taken place.<\/p>\n<p>Currently Microsoft has office in 13 cities of Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chandigarh, Chennai, Coimbatore, Hyderabad, Indore, Jaipur, Kochi, Kolkata, Mumbai, New Delhi, and Pune. With Satya Nadella taking over as CEO, IT experts in the country hope that Microsoft will focus more on India.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deccanchronicle.com\/141125\/nation-current-affairs\/article\/no-free-space-microsoft-it-park\" target=\"_blank\">Deccan Chronicle<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year there were reports that global software giant Microsoft is coming to Technopark Trivandrum. Now a recent report by\u00a0Deccan Chronicle says that, Kerala Government has declined Microsoft&#8217;s request for free space in Technopark. According to the report, Microsoft had sought a space of about 2,000 sq ft to start a training centre and cloud [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":21473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,4],"tags":[203],"class_list":["post-21471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-city-news","category-general","tag-technopark"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21471"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}