Archive for March, 2008

KPMG signs BT with £62m five-year outsourcing contract

Monday, March 31st, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

SOURCE: ComputerWeekly DATE: March 31st, 2008 ARTICLE KPMG is to outsource a significant chunk of its IT management to BT in a deal worth £62m over five years. If successful the contract, in ... Read more..

GE withdraws nominees from Genpact board, may hasten exit

Monday, March 31st, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

SOURCE: EconomicTimes DATE: March 29th, 2008 Mohit Soapbox: The interesting trend here is that GE is paring down it's equity stake in genpact but extending their contractual relationship with genpact. Interestingly genpact had ... Read more..

Equiniti’s India move sparks security fears

Monday, March 31st, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

SOURCE: ThisisMoney.co.uk DATE: March 31st, 2008 ARTICLE Britain's biggest share-registration company, which handles details of investors in most FTSE 100 companies, plans to ship key parts of its business offshore, slashing hundreds of ... Read more..

Is IT dead?

Monday, March 31st, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

SOURCE: Business Standard DATE: March 31st, 2008 Mohit SoapBox: This is an interesting article and confirms that fact that smaller and mid size firms are going to face a tougher market environment than ... Read more..

Change in employee demographics creates retention problems in Philippines firms

Monday, March 31st, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

SOURCE: ManilaTimes DATE: March 30th, 2008 ARTICLE Local companies are having problems in terms of keeping their employees in the organization as the demography of workers in the Asia-Pacific region changes, a human ... Read more..

BPO firm ExlService beats rival WNS in market cap

Friday, March 28th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

SOURCE: EconomicTimes DATE: March 28th, 2008 ARTICLE Following its better-than-expected quarterly result, BPO firm ExlService Holdings has beaten twice-its-size rival WNS (Holdings) in terms of market cap. Nasdaq-listed EXL ended the trading session ... Read more..

HCL Tech’s infrastructure deal with Bear Stearns in trouble

Thursday, March 27th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

SOURCE: EconomicTimes DATE: March 27th, 2008 ARTICLE  In yet another fallout of US investment bank Bear Stearns’ bankruptcy , India’s fifth-largest technology firm HCL Technologies' infrastructure management deal with the company faces an uncertain ... Read more..

Nalanda India picks up 5.25% in WNS

Thursday, March 20th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

SOURCE: EconomicTimes DATE: March 20th, 2008ARTICLE  Former Warburg Pincus India honcho Pulak Prasad’s PE fund Nalanda India has picked up a 5.25% stake in US-listed BPO firm WNS (Holdings). The fund acquired ... Read more..

India’s Wipro to create hundreds of UK tech jobs

Thursday, March 20th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

SOURCE: Silicon.com DATE: March 20th, 2008 Mohit soapbox: TCS just opened a center in Ohio, Cognizant going to Argentina and everyone moving closer to the client and also looking to diversify risk. ARTICLE Indian IT ... Read more..

Financial Services captives stop/slow down hiring in India

Thursday, March 20th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

SOURCE: HindustanTimes DATE: March 20th, 2008 Mohit soapbox: Financial services have to work out a right model of delivery which works for them and have been looking to create more globalized model of ... Read more..