Archive for February, 2010

Wipro winning large deals in Saudi Arabia

Sunday, February 28th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

SOURCE: ArabNews DATE: Feb 24th, 2010 The total dollar amount of the deals seems fairly high and our assumption is that it is based on multi year deal contract values.  Given that ... Read more..

Copal Partners revenue $40 million in 2009

Sunday, February 28th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

SOURCE: Press Release DATE: Feb 26th, 2010 According to the article (link below),  Copal Partners, a specialized Knowledge Processing Offshoring firm in India has seen a growth of 40% in revenues from ... Read more..

IBM Australia to move roles to India and China ?

Sunday, February 28th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

SOURCE: CRN Australia DATE: Feb 26th, 2010 IBM Australia is looking to reduce their staffing in Australia and deliver services to their clients in Australia using offshore resources in India and China. ... Read more..

The $10 billion dollar Indian e-governance market ?

Thursday, February 25th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

SOURCE: EconomicTimes DATE: Feb 24th, 2010 LINK The Indian Government has committed about USD 10-billion to this program, of which composite of some investment is coming from private partners and also from the State ... Read more..

UK Treasury demands to cut £3.2bn annual tech spending – is offshoring the answer ?

Thursday, February 25th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

SOURCE: Silicon.com DATE: Feb 24th, 2010 LINK Replacing public sector workers in the UK with cheaper labour overseas has until now proved too hot for any UK government to handle. As such, politicians have ... Read more..

Flattening World Helps Genpact

Thursday, February 25th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

SOURCE: Investors DATE: Feb 22nd, 2010 Interview with the COO of Genpact and how BPO and ITO firms are positioning themselves to compete. http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=521855 Read more..

Can Small/Midsize BPO’s survive ?

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

SOURCE: LiveMint DATE: Feb 24th, 2010 The article talks about how some of the small & Mid size BPO firms are figuring out ways to scale up or survive. This is an ... Read more..

Wipro wins Punjab and Sind Bank IT contract

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010 Posted in DEALS, India | No Comments »

SOURCE: Business Standard DATE: Feb 25th, 2010  Wipro, India’s third largest IT services firm, has bagged a 10-year contract with public sector lender Punjab and Sind Bank (PSB) to enable it to ... Read more..

Person responsible for Wipro $4 million fraud commits suicide

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

SOURCE: DNAIndia DATE: Feb 23, 2010 The person responsible for commiting a $ 4 million embezzlement as a Wipro controller, Anoop Agrawal commited suicide.  The fraud was commited over a period of ... Read more..

The freelance outsourcing economy

Monday, February 22nd, 2010 Posted in Opinions, Uncategorized | No Comments »

DATE: Feb 22nd, 2010 The economy is gone solo & global and it is no where more evident than the freelance work which people perform all over the world sitting in ... Read more..