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Are the Best Years of Outsourcing Behind Us?
VentureWoods (Aug 22 2008) Outsourcing Explore Article
Hi, My firm, Venture Intelligence, is organizing a conference, IT Services & BPO Connect ‘08, next Thursday (Aug. 28) at Mumbai to explore the above and relation issues facing these key sectors. The event has speakers from the largest companies as well as the most active investors in IT Services and BPO, including: Aparup Sengupta, CEO, Aegis [...]Comment on Article Mentions: Wipro Arun Natarajan IT Services
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Medical Tourism Opportunity
VentureWoods (Aug 19 2008) Outsourcing Explore Article
If people thought the outsourcing of IT was significant, then medical tourism promises to be several times larger by the middle of the next decade. The Economist article provides a chart projecting the number of US patients expected to partake in medical tourism. The base case sounds like a 100% per annum growth through out next decade. Start ups in US have [...]
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Talking outsourcing- a blog from computing.co.uk
Talking outsourcing (Aug 15 2008) Outsourcing Explore Article
Yesterday I chaired the annual sourcing and offshoring day hosted by the National Outsourcing Association. It’s an annual all-day focus on all things related to offshoring. We were at the plush offices of law firm Lovells in the City – they have the most amazing auditorium at the top of their office. The day focused on exploring some of the key themes and issues today in offshoring, so as you ...
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Indian Angel Network Invests In Legal Outsourcing Firm TechLit
VC Circle (Aug 13 2008) Outsourcing , Acquisition Explore Article
Members of the Delhi-based Indian Angel Network (IAN) has acquired a 20 percent stake in US-based legal process outsourcing (LPO) venture TechLit Solutions for $1 million, valuing the start-up at $5 million. Techlit was started in January 2008 by Neal Gupta (who is also a member of IAN) along with the co-founders of Aptara, [...]
Comment on Article Mentions: Alok Mittal Canaan Partners Microsoft
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Canaan led $6MN investment round in UnitedLex
VentureWoods (Jul 23 2008) Outsourcing , Acquisition Explore Article
I am happy to share that we have led an investment round of $6MN in UnitedLex with Helion. UnitedLex is a legal process outsourcing company. Sahad has covered some numbers on broad KPO market in his posts. Since last 12-18 months, we came across many companies in the broad KPO market - Legal Outsourcing, Financial Analytics, [...]Comment on Article Mentions: UnitedLex Mukul
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Google, CNET lose outsourced employee personal data in a theft
WATBlog.com (Jul 4 2008) Outsourcing Explore Article
In what seems to be an unfortunate incident, personal data of some of Google’s employees was stolen in a burglary along with employees’ data of CNET Networks. Google / CNET Logo Google outsources much of its human resources functions to Colt Express Outsourcing Services, an external company which handles such jobs for various other companies too. On [...]Comment on Article Mentions: Google CNET Networks
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Quatrro Acquires BPO US-based Gaming Outsourcing Firm Babel Media
contentSutra.com (Jul 1 2008) Outsourcing , Acquisition Explore Article
In its sixth and the biggest acquisition till date, Raman Roy-led Quatrro BPO, backed by US-based hedge fund DE Shaw Group, has acquired British firm Babel Media, a provider of specialist outsourced services to gaming and interactive entertainment industry. While the deal size stands undisclosed the deal value is believed to be in the $100-125 million bracket. Also as part of the transaction, which is being funded by DE Shaw, ...Comment on Article Mentions: De Shaw
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Orange County Register To Outsource Editing Work To India
contentSutra.com (Jun 25 2008) Outsourcing Explore Article
More dollar love for India as copy editing duties for some stories published in the Orange County Register and page layout for a community newspaper owned by Orange County Register Communications, the company that holds the Pulitzer Prize winning daily, will be outsourced to India. OCRC will begin a one-month trial with Mindworks Global Media at the end of June, reports AP. Drop in newspaper circulation numbers globally has hit ...Comment on Article Mentions: Reuters
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TiE Canaan Entrepreneurial Challenge - Final Nominations
VentureWoods (Jun 9 2008) Outsourcing Explore Article
Hi All, It’s my pleasure to introduce this community to final eight entries of TiE Canaan Entrepreneurial Challenge 2008 Name Category 11rupees.com Internet - Financial Services Good Morning Research KPO - Financial Services Druvaa Software Software Ginni Systems Limited Software iKen Solutions Pvt Ltd Software Infogile Technologies Mobile Rx Healthcaremagic Pvt. Ltd Internet - HealthCare Micro Finance India Private Limited Financial Inclusion - MicroFinance We received around 140 plans. Regards, ...Comment on Article Mentions: TiE Mukul
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Outsourcing gone too far !
India Business Blog (May 14 2008) Outsourcing Explore Article
Now this one will make you laugh till you cry ! Yes, outsourcing stuff works really well in most cases and I am all for outsourcing, but this is probably the extreme if outsourcing. See it to believe it... Report: Many U.S. Parents Outsourcing Child Care Overseas Hope you had a good laugh :) -
HCL Considers Media Outsourcing Business
contentSutra.com (Apr 21 2008) Outsourcing Explore Article
Outsourcing major HCL Technologies is reportedly in talks with broadcasting media houses for offshoring media and entertainment services. What's interesting is that as per Karthik Murugan, group manager—media & entertainment and telecom for HCL, the deal size appears to have increased. Murugan tells the Financial Express that projects are now in the $30-50 million range, up from $1 million two-three years ago. HCL is currently running a pilot. There have ...Comment on Article Mentions: Financial Express HCL Technologies Infosys
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India’s Future
VentureWoods (Apr 15 2008) Outsourcing Explore Article
I encourage Indian entrepreneurs experienced in the IT outsourcing industry, and alarmed by my Death of Indian Outsourcing piece to read Sudhakar Ram’s Wave 3 of Indian Outsourcing. Other related pieces on the topic are: India’s Labor Arbitrage Strategy, Indian IT: The Next 8 Years, and Silicon Valley’s Unknown Indian. Also, here are my related Forbes [...]Comment on Article Mentions: IIT Kharagpur
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The good side of US recession
India Business Blog (Apr 14 2008) Outsourcing Explore Article
I had earlier voiced my opinion that US recession may be a boon for Indian offshore software companies. Infact, even as America is moving into recession, Indian offshore companies are getting more business than ever before. The impact of recession is undoubtedly higher to small and medium sized enterprises whose bottom lines get squeezed due to lack of spending by consumers. These thousands of small and medium enterprises are increasingly ... -
MakeMyTrip signs $15 million outsourcing deal with IBM Daksh
Top News (Apr 9 2008) Outsourcing Explore Article
Launched in September 2005, MakeMyTrip was funded by Helion Venture Partners, headed by Sanjiv Aggarwal who incidentally started Daksh and later sold to IBM ...Comment on Article Mentions: IBM Daksh Sanjiv Aggarwal Helion Venture Partners
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MMT outsources its ops to IBM Daksh
pluggd.in (Mar 27 2008) Outsourcing , Travel Explore Article
Now this reminds me of Bharati Airtel outsoucing its’ IT ops to IBM, way back in 2004 (the popular $750mn deal). MMT has outsourced its’ ops to IBM Daksh for the next 5 years. IBM Daksh will takeover about 400-500 employees from MakeMyTrip.com on its rolls,..IBM Daksh employees will perform travel-related BPO work for MakeMyTrip.com such as offering airline tickets, hotel reservations, car rentals, travel packages and holidays in India ...Comment on Article Mentions: Yatra Comat Technologies Bharati Airtel
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MakeMyTrip set to outsource ops to IBM Daksh
The Economic Times (Mar 26 2008) Outsourcing , Travel Explore Article
Launched in September 2005, MakeMyTrip was funded by Helion Venture Partners, headed by Sanjiv Aggarwal who incidentally started Daksh and later sold to IBM ...Comment on Article Mentions: IBM Daksh Sanjiv Aggarwal Indiatimes Travel
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e-Zest Solutions reported successful participation at CeBIT 2008 ...
indiaprwire.com (Mar 26 2008) Outsourcing Explore Article
e-Zest Solutions reported successful participation at CeBIT 2008 ...India PRwire (Press Release), India - 11 hours agoWe got clue from our last year visit and this year we presented our expertise in Web 2.0, SaaS, Open Source & SOA. Amol Pande Executive Director proclaimed, ...Comment on Article Mentions: Microsoft & Sun Competency Centers Software Technology Parks of India Mccia
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Recession and Indian IT services industry
India Business Blog (Mar 16 2008) Outsourcing Explore Article
Mark (name changed) wanted to outsource some of his development work. A typical outsourcing process starts with bidding, where companies from different cheaper countries including India would bid for projects. He asks one of his manager (An Indian abroad), to take a look at the different bids and choose the cheapest one. After looking at the bids, our Desi manager goes speechless! The bids received from Indian companies are almost ...
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Global Top 100 best outsourcing service providers of 2008
India Business Blog (Mar 9 2008) Outsourcing Explore Article
It is been a long time since I have published a top lists. During the starting days of this blog, I regularly published quite a few lists which are great reference point to the readers. However, over last few months I have not been able to do that. Last year in I had published a list of Top 100 outsourcing providers of 2007 released by The International Association of Outsourcing ... -
Etisalat Launches Subsidiary Technologia In Bangalore
contentSutra.com (Mar 4 2008) Outsourcing , Telecom Explore Article
Etisalat, the UAE's largest telecom operator has announced the launch of Technologia, its Bangalore based subsidiary, reports ET. Technologia has the mandate of developing telecom software for the Etisatal, which provides telecom services in 16 countries in the Middle East and Africa region. The company will employ 50, and will be scaled up to 250 employees. So this is an outsourcing centre, and Technologia is registed as a 100 percent ...Comment on Article Mentions: Nikhil Pahwa
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LimeExchange.com enables SMEs to hire professionals for contract jobs
Alootechie (Feb 28 2008) Outsourcing Explore Article
US-based Lime Spot has launched LimeExchange.com where small and medium enterprises could get professionals for work outsourced by them.Comment on Article Mentions: Pawan Agarwal Economic Times
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SBI Capital to set up $100 million VC fund for knowledge-based sectors
Alootechie (Feb 20 2008) Outsourcing , Acquisition Explore Article
State Bank of India’s subsidiary SBI Capital Markets plans to set up a $100 million (about Rs 400 crore) venture capital fund to invest in knowledge-based sectors in the country.Comment on Article Mentions: State Bank of India SBI Capital Markets
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A Look At Outsourcing Through oDesk’s Eyes
Techcrunch (Feb 6 2008) Outsourcing Explore Article
oDesk has just released a new part of their site called the oConomy where anyone can view statistics about the outsourcing activity on oDesk. As you can see above, features include the ability to view average working rates, among other data about providers, from around the world on a Google map. You can also view an [...] -
India now a global hub for Television commercial production
India Business Blog (Feb 4 2008) Outsourcing Explore Article
I have mentioned this earlier - I love creativity of Indian advertisements. They are not only fun to watch, they also create a lasting impression on viewers mind.I have seen numerous television ads in US and UK, but very few ads seem to capture viewer’s attention. Even during the game day (American Super Bowl Finals), [...]
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