Orders from India and Asia Pacific have been worse hit, with the region witnessing a 23 per cent decline in profits and 18 per cent drop in revenue for the quarter. The company admitted it had seen some delay in large orders since the 11 September...
Technology companies have attempted to capture the prize many times but thus far none have succeeded. As many vendors are working out, the existing models can only succeed if they link back into the business.
Exploiting vast pools of cheap skilled labour was cited as the key driver for overseas R&D by 70 per cent of executives. Businesses are increasingly looking to invest R&D funding overseas in emerging markets such as China and India, according to...
The annual figures from India's IT trade body Nasscom, for the financial year 2005/06, also show a 37 per cent rise in the country's business process outsourcing (BPO) revenues to $6.2bn. This continued level of growth will put India's offshore...
The government has agreed to data security spot checks across all departments by the Information Commissioner following the loss of 25 million records of child benefit recipients by HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC).
Mittal told silicon.com that outsourcing companies were able to implement higher standards of data security because they could easily set up rigorous new procedures, could invest more in policies using revenues from multiple contracts, had...