Archive for June, 2008
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IBM buying Citibank BPO ?
SOURCE: EconomicTimes DATE: June 27th, 2008 Mohit Soapbox: Seems like the bid to buy Citibank is back again. Late last year for over six months the citibank proposed sale was in the news off and on with Genpact as the lead contender. Given where
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More Nielsen Jobs Going To India
SOURCE: Tampa Bay Online DATE: June 26th, 2008 Mohit Soapbox: TCS and Nielsen signed a ten year 1.2 billion dollar deal late last year to move IT infrastructure asset and operations to TCS across the world. (LINK). This is one of the largest d
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EquaTerra and Microsoft launch IT governance tool
SOURCE: VUNet Date: June 25th, 2008 Mohit Soapbox: There are a few companies out there which make governance tools for managing sourcing activity. There is a cost of sourcing governance and it varies over the lifecycle and stage of the outsourci
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HCL working for Missouri Employers Mutual
SOURCE: Press Release DATE: June 25th, 2008 HCL Technologies Ltd. ("HCL"), India's leading global IT services company, today announced Missouri Employers Mutual (MEM), the state's workers compensation market leader, has selected HCL as the system
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Mastek to set up development centres in Chennai
SOURCE: Business Standard DATE: June 26th, 2008 ARTICLE Mumbai-based Mastek, an offshore outsourcing service and IT applications company, is planning to set up four development centres in Chennai. The four centres will be ready in the next three t
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Background checks in India – Employees` past difficult to verify
SOURCE: Business Standard DATE: June 26th, 2008 Mohit Soapbox: Wipro has a database of 'fake resumes'. Faking on resumes is the second biggest lie I guess! It is prevalent all over the world but in India the issue is that there is no prope
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HCL Info bags $23-mn deal for Pan-African project
SOURCE: EconomicTimes DATE: June 25th, 2008 Mohit Soapbox: Seems over the past couple of months a # of the Indian vendors have won deals in Africa. If Mr Ambani get's to buy MTN it will create the largest telecom firm in the world. TCS recentl
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FACT BOX: Top three IT vendors in India revenue share
DATE: June 26th, 2008 A recent study by Forrester concludes that the top three IT companies from India - TCS, Infosys and Wipro have widened their growth story relative to other players and continue to drive a majority of the IT exports from India
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Infosys announces Research Tie-up with IIIT, Hyderabad
Source: EconomicTimes DATE: June 25th, 2008 Mohit Soapbox: A # of corporates have announced tie up with academics over the past few months either for sourcing candidates or for research activities. This growing collaboration between the industr
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Satyam computer signs KPO deal with US firm
SOURCE: Business Standard DATE: June 26th, 2008 ARTICLE Satyam Computer Services, a leading global consulting and information technology services provider, has formed an alliance with Sciformix Corporation, a Westborough -based, life science k
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