Megha Bahree, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on February 22, 2011 at 12:00 am PT
Tata Consultancy Services Ltd., India’s largest outsourcer by sales, counts among its clients some of the world’s best known names, from Wall Street banks to automobile manufacturers.
Now, it is targeting people many have never heard of on its home turf.
Kara Swisher in News on November 30, 2010 at 3:16 pm PT
This will be short and–considering the topic–bittersweet.
Despite a report in TechCrunch saying layoffs at Yahoo might be imminent, previously reported termination of employees in its product unit will not take place this week.
Actually, according to sources familiar with the situation, they will take place in about two weeks, around December 13th.
Kara Swisher in News on November 11, 2010 at 2:40 pm PT
Yahoo is indeed preparing to lay off employees, in a reduction in force that will be done in December.
But the layoffs, first reported in TechCrunch, will be closer to 10 percent and be almost completely centered on the product organization under Chief Product Officer Blake Irving, said sources close to the situation.
Scott Denne, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on August 16, 2010 at 1:26 pm PT
Outsourcing data storage wasn’t successful the first time around, but venture capitalists are optimistic about the second attempt.
In 1999, Paul Flanagan became one of the early employees at StorageNetworks Inc., a company that rented and managed data storage equipment so its customers wouldn’t have to buy their own. The company was an immediate hit, reaching $123 million in annual sales in its third year of business.
Don Clark, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on August 16, 2010 at 12:51 am PT
New U.S. legislation that sharply boosts visa fees to pay for tighter border security may play well in some parts of the country, but the applause is faint in Silicon Valley.
The measure, signed into law by President Barack Obama on Friday, is expected to raise operating costs for outsourcing firms that use large numbers of foreign-born employees to serve their U.S. customers.
Dhanya Ann Thoppil, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on July 8, 2010 at 8:35 am PT
India’s technology companies are looking at innovative ways to unearth and maintain a steady supply of workers as they strive to meet soaring demand for outsourcing services triggered by the recent rebound in global technology spending.
With staff attrition inching higher toward pre-recession levels, Indian outsourcers are now searching for talent in the lost sheep lot.
Justin Scheck in News on April 7, 2010 at 5:00 am PT
Hewlett-Packard Co., Dell Inc. and Xerox Corp. are seeking new profits in the technology-services industry. But those companies face a major challenge: While competition is intensifying, their corporate clients are spending less on new deals.
Kara Swisher in News on March 9, 2010 at 4:54 pm PT
Say this about the toolbar and distribution deals, which Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz keeps saying were too pricey for the Internet portal: They have certainly given Microsoft’s search offering, Bing, a very nice boost.
In all likelihood, it is that and more causing Bing to make solid gains on Yahoo, whose market share declined yet
again this month, according to comScore’s monthly report of search market share in the United States.
Kara Swisher in News on February 24, 2010 at 9:00 am PT
Is there more than one way to skin a social graph?
Yesterday, Yahoo took another step in its efforts to play fast catch-up in the social networking arena, by dramatically expanding its relationship with Twitter and integrating the microblogging service broadly throughout its Web site, in much the same way it did recently with Facebook.
Some think outsourcing the job to more capable companies is yet another monument to Yahoo’s failure at its own much touted plans to socialize itself.
And while this is true to a large extent, BoomTown is not so sure it’s a bad idea, especially compared with the flailing experienced by Google recently from its own attempts to compete with Facebook and Twitter via the rollout of Google Buzz.
