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I’ve always wondered why India is having such trouble moving from IT enabled services into the product market. It has been obvious to every observer of the BPO ITeS market that wage based differentiation doesn’t amount to a long term, defensible competitive edge. There are two parallel threats – the first being the very high [...]

The New York Times published an interesting article on the state of IT innovation in India. In a nutshell, the Times found that while India continues to be a low-cost offshoring destination, Indian companies are not being able to truly innovate and create compelling new products. Within India, there appears to be an overwhelming focus [...]

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 [...]

Thanks to Mohtashim of ITtazee.com for bringing this to our attention. SanDisk is the latest in a long list of organizations, including the World Bank and others, terminating embattled Indian IT company, Satyam’s services. As we’ve mentioned here before, Satyam was at the epicenter of corporate espionage, fraud and other wrongdoings that have landed it’s [...]