July-2010 issue
Cover Story
Author: Christo Jacob & Vimali Swamy
The last three years, had been testing times for the IT industry across the world. While large corporations hardly grew by 10 percent, the mid tier companies were on a decline. However, there is one among the few companies that managed...
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In My Opinion
Atul Bhatnagar
Driven by the increased consumer demand for wireless data bandwidth, cellular data speeds have increased over the last decade...
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CEO Spotlight
R U Srinivas
One of the hardest hit industries like many others during recession, the BPO sector is now witnessing a gradual upturn. Times...
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Nitin Pangam
The present times make it pertinent for every BPO vendor to align with the clients to create better value and such approaches...
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Keshav Murugesh
Cost reduction dominated the mind space of outsourcing companies in the last decade. India is past that stage, when we could...
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CIO Profile
Vimali Swamy
"Social networking and consumer Web applications and their foray into the enterprises is what one should look out for in the...
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Business
Sudip Saha
The Indian domestic market is going through a crucial transformational juncture over the last few years – rising from a 'good...
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Vimali Swamy
If the year that went by was tough, then the BPO sector is surely a witness to it. Of all the industries, the BPO sector was...
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Vishwanathan K A
Emerging businesses are faced with tough challenges in terms of people management, process improvement, and quick technology...
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Pradeep Chennavajhula
Software testing industry is gearing up to be one with high growth potential, and the inequality in supply and demand of talent...
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Gopi Natarajan
The recent healthcare reforms announced in the U.S. have arguably been one of the most opportunistic business areas that Indian...
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Ashwini Kumar
The world is now seeing an unprecedented weakness in lending flows ? be it mortgage lending or unsecured lending. A silver...
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VC Chakra
SI Team
Ajay Sravanapudi founded LucidMedia has recently raised $4.5 million in funding, led by MMV Financial (MMV). This funding...
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SI Team
Diaz Nesamoney founded online video advertising firm Jivox, has raised $4 million in the follow-on investment round from Opus...
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Technology
By Kiran Datar
As collaboration gains adoption within enterprises of all sizes, it’s fast becoming a valuable tool for the productive...
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Ash Patel
Industry trend: Finding high quality engineers in the US is a real challenge for companies. With the economic meltdown and the...
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Nayan Bheda
Even as we were marveling at the way the Internet had changed our lifestyles, the increasing popularity of the mobile phone and...
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C.V. Narayanan
The Promise of the Cloud
Cloud computing is actively revolutionizing the traditional IT landscape. It is all about paying...
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VC talk
Ashwin Raghuraman
A spontaneous answer to this question would read “those that would generate returns that would keep us smiling”. Deeper...
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In Focus
SI Team
Even though India has become synonymous with outsourcing, Indian companies have created an amazing number of job opportunities...
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SI Team
In a bid to inspire the budding entrepreneurs, Obama has met the small business entrepreneurs at White House and lauded an...
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SI Team
Two India-born Stanford graduate students have created a $3.99 application in the iPad. It is the top paid app in the entire...
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SI Team
The growth that India has achieved so far is based on patents that have been generated outside the country and it’s time for...
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SI Team
It’s time to pay the unpaid. At least 550 high net worth individuals and entities have been listed by the Income Tax...
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Editor's Desk
Christo Jacob
The BPO industry got India the tag ‘back office of the world’. But now Indian players have to strive hard to retain the...
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