Archive for June, 2008

IBM buying Citibank BPO ?

Thursday, June 26th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

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 ... Read more..

More Nielsen Jobs Going To India

Thursday, June 26th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

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 ... Read more..

EquaTerra and Microsoft launch IT governance tool

Thursday, June 26th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

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 ... Read more..

HCL working for Missouri Employers Mutual

Thursday, June 26th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

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 ... Read more..

Mastek to set up development centres in Chennai

Thursday, June 26th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

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 ... Read more..

Background checks in India - Employees` past difficult to verify

Thursday, June 26th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

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 ... Read more..

HCL Info bags $23-mn deal for Pan-African project

Thursday, June 26th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

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 ... Read more..

FACT BOX: Top three IT vendors in India revenue share

Thursday, June 26th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

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 ... Read more..

Infosys announces Research Tie-up with IIIT, Hyderabad

Thursday, June 26th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

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 ... Read more..

Satyam computer signs KPO deal with US firm

Thursday, June 26th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

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 knowledge ... Read more..