Month: November 2003

Equity research outsourcing picks up steam US brokerage firms are sending more and more of their equity research work to India says a recent report in Businessworld. The work being…

US CEOs can’t afford to ignore India: Businessweek In its cover story titled “The Rise Of India”, Businessweek magazine says, whether Americans regard the outsourcing of services jobs to India…

Nishan Systems founder sues VCs, others over McDATA acquisition Nishan Systems founder and board member Aamer Latif has filed a suit against the company’s Venture Capital (VC) investors and others…

Social software scene heats up Silicon Valley-based “social software” services like dating service Friendster, Tribe.net and LinkedIn have raised several million dollars in venture capital from top-drawer VCs like Kleiner…

Earlier, we used to encounter names like “Sean (Suresh) Narayanan” only in US magazines. Now, we come across such names in the Indian business media as well. Reason? The Non-Resident…

“Having back-end in India can salvage ASP business model”: Kanwal Rekhi & Co. The Opportunity: The Application Services Provider (ASP) business model–which involves delivering software over the web on a…

Why captive BPOs are feeling the heat There have been a string of announcements from captive BPOs–including the pioneer, GE Capital–that they will start pitching for business from companies outside…

Over 40% of software development is outsourced : META Group An average of 41% of new IT development activity is now outsourced, according to IT research firm META Group. Last…

US politicians will not legislate against offshoring to India: FEER report The Far Eastern Economic Review has (rather belatedly) discovered that there is a backlash among US IT workers to…

Opponents of offshoring proffer new arguments With the fear-mongering over job losses managing to just get the attention of a few local politicians and state governments, the anti-outsourcing lobby in…