TechLahore

With businesses in the US looking for more and more ways in which they can save money in the current economic climate, interesting new trends in outsourcing are emerging. I recently finished reading a rather thought-provoking book (more on this later), that makes a compelling case for outsourcing every-day repetitive tasks and activities. Many of [...]

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 [...]

Accuse me all you want for having an alarming title like the above, but I’m sticking to my guns. A lot is wrong with the venture model in general, but the malaise that has afflicted IT VC has reached an incurable situation. I’ll summarize what I see happening and then explain it all a little [...]

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 [...]

Mansour Bajwa, Commercial Counselor for Pakistan in Dubai, was quoted in this story highlighting the rapid growth in exports from Pakistan to the UAE. “Pakistan is also increasing exports of [..] IT software products, particularly to the UAE“, he said. Pakistani software shops have been developing solutions for UAE companies for many years now, but [...]

Quite possibly. I started thinking along these lines when a hot-shot American investment banker friend mentioned that “70% of the US’ GDP is consumer driven”. That much, huh?! It’s no secret that THE key point of interaction for consumer businesses is now the web. In fact, most Web 2.0 companies are consumer focused, even as [...]

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 [...]

A landscape article published recently by the Voice of America talks about the effects of increased outsourcing and offshoring on countries like Pakistan. Part of their research was conducted in Karachi and some quotes from call center employees based there have been included in the piece. The bottom line is that the rapid growth of [...]

As a consequence of the recent PSEB led business tour of the US, several Pakistani software companies are expecting to cement their ties with customers in America by signing a number of development contracts with them. The list of potential customers reads like a who’s-who of the Fortune 500. Potential contracts are expected from the [...]

Indian call centers expanded in the late 90s and early 2000s and since then have served as a social laboratory of sorts… a few years ago a stream of articles covered Dell’s outsourcing of their tech support to India. Apparently the accents – despite the neutralization training – were not tolerable to customers in the US, [...]