How VCs are “de-risking” their investments Venture capital is undergoing a radical change, according to an article in Fast Company magazine. “Forget home runs — VCs just want to hit…
Forbes editor defends offshore outsourcing Michael S. Malone, the former editor-at-large of Forbes ASAP magazine, has advised Americans against making a “scapegoat” out of offshore outsourcing of services. “Suddenly, global…
Are VCs and software entrepreneurs incompatible? According to Joel Spolsky, founder of Fog Creek Software, “there’s something wrong with the VC model as it exists today”. “There are certain fundamental…
Pune software firm puts itself for sale in unique fashion A Pune-based software services firm with intellectual property in the networking area has put itself up for sale. Interestingly the…
Raman Roy on the evolution of India’s BPO industry–and his baby, Spectramind In this 2-part interview to Knowledge@Wharton, Ramon Roy, Founder & CEO of pioneering third-party BPO firm Spectramind, talks…
Caught between a threat to the L-1 and a decline in the H-1 As has been widely reported (including in the New York Times), John L. Mica, a Republican Congressman…
Heralding the arrival of 4G 4G mobile telelcom technologies combine Wi-Fi-style Internet access with the blanket coverage, and fewer base-stations, of a mobile network, says The Economist. And companies like…
Congresswoman probing use of Indian IT workers by US insurance firms According to a report in The Hartford Courant, Connecticut Republican Congresswoman Nancy Johnson has requested five leading American insurance…
Bank of America tech worker’s suicide linked to offshore outsourcing Naturally, the “3-m plus-US jobs-to-be-lost” Forrester Research study figures prominently in the reports about the suicide. Here are some extracts…
Now, the UK’s Telegraph worries about loss of local jobs While the topic of the “backlash” is getting quite boring, what makes The Telegraph article reasonably interesting is that a)…