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Riots break out in India again, Obama slams Bombay, firms losing revenue… what's next for IT in India?


The going hasn’t been very good for Indian IT firms recently. First, there was the Satyam scandal which exposed many of the fundamental issues with Indian IT companies, corporate espionage, board level corruption, scamming of shareholders etc. Then, what was left of Satyam was to be taken over by a Government-appointed board, but there was [...]

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US recession hits Indian tech firms… and economy… hard


The recession in the US is hurting Indian outsourcing companies quite significantly. In a conversation I recently had with a Pakistani tech CEO who maintains numerous relationships with Indian outsourcing companies, I learned that the closure of large financial services institutions has caused the loss of thousands of jobs already in India. Today, I came [...]

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Foreign customers jittery as US National Counterterrorism says India #2 behind Iraq in terror attacks


Early in the morning, as I loaded up CNN to get my daily news fix, I was rather shocked to be staring at this front page story. A day has gone by and the international press is now abuzz with news of the repeated bomb blasts in India. The impact of these violent acts is [...]

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