TechLahore

I’m travelling in the US on business and one of the things I’ve been pretty impressed with is how great my remote desktop connections with my office in Lahore have been from pretty much every US city I’ve visited. I’ve been regularly pulling down large (multi-gig) files stored on our servers in Lahore and also [...]

The Satyam scandal just doesn’t stop unfolding. And with every successive twist the story takes, the magnitude of the disaster seems to get amplified and the corruption appears wider and increasingly more unfathomable. There have been two developments recently which we felt were an important follow-up to the coverage TechLahore has given the Satyam story [...]

MySpace has had its share of troubles recently. Unlike Facebook, they don’t seem to believe that it’s OK to raise hundreds of millions of dollars and never make a cent. But what do I know? Clearly, Smart Investors seem to love Facebook’s business model and their $10 Billion valuation. Previously, Even Smarter Investors couldn’t get [...]

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 [...]

If the title confuses you, let me quickly catch you up on this story. Satyam is one of the largest IT companies in India and has been the darling of the Indian outsourcing industry for some time now. The company is/was run by Ramalinga Raju, who has been hailed as one of the leading lights [...]

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 [...]