Productivity is the real “villain” for job losses; not outsourcing China lost 16 million manufacturing jobs, a decline of 15 percent, between 1995 and 2002, says The International Herald Tribune…
Private Equity Week features heated debate on offshore outsourcing Though it isn’t clear why the social implications of offshore outsourcing is a fit concern for a magazine focussed on Private…
Kumar Mahadeva’s exit from Cognizant and heavy stock sales raises eyebrows The retirement announcement of Cognizant Technology SolutionsÂ’ Chairman & CEO Kumar Mahadeva has caught stock market analysts and industry…
It’s not always cheaper to build start-ups in India With people like Sequoia Capital partner Michael Moritz saying things like “We can barely imagine investing in a company without at…
The winners and losers in offshore outsourcing Some interesting extracts from New York Times’ coverage of a roundtable discussion on the topic of job migration: Stephen S. Roach (managing director…
US programmers now willing to work at Indian-level salaries, says BW column According to a column in BusinessWeek, when Jon Carson, founder of cMarket, recently felt an urgent need for…
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…