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Seen that? - IT salaries up - inspite of offshoring
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on November 30, 2009
...salary rise in India, wage inflation is being discussed as one of the key issues facing IT Services Firms in India, here are excerpts of the same: It pays to be part of India's talent-hungry corpo...
Seen that? - Chinese Venture Capital Ushers in Thunder & Rainmakers
in China Venture News, on November 20, 2009
...The new regs would also encourage local governments to look for private capital to finance start-up firms in their jurisdictions, according to the article. The news emerged in part at the Shanghai Int...
Poised for Growth? What the Suppliers are Expecting.
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on November 17, 2009
... to an economic recovery within the Indian BPO segment.
In addition to in-country growth, Indian firms are beginning to expand overseas to near-shore markets. Infosys, for example, is establishing...
Cost cuts hit auditors
in Sox First, on November 17, 2009
...itors with Britain's Financial Reporting Council (FRC), as reported here , warning that accounting firms could sacrifice audit quality when they're cutting costs and scrambling to get more cash in th...
Seen that? - Germany in trouble?
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on November 9, 2009
...cing creates value for American GDP? As the study says the balance for outsourcing done by American firms is $1.13 positive for every dollar spend. Well you can argue about these findings but now The ...
New innovative ways to identify supply chain talent: 360 degree feedback
in Supplychainer, on November 9, 2009
...ere are few people who know what it takes to lead a turnaround and can do it! That's why recruiting firms are coming up with new ways to scan and identify the right candidates. Here is one I read rece...
Seen that? - Scientific Atlanta Grows From DVR Sales
in The Digital TV Weblog, on November 8, 2009
...ks of sales Representatives. We are witnessing more companies, especially smaller to mid-sized firms, embracing a commercialization process as a means to create new business. A process approach recog...
Galleon scandal: just the beginning?
in Sox First, on November 8, 2009
...r the Dow Jones Customers' Afternoon Letter with closing prices. Now it has come to the point where firms are spending millions and putting wicked fast computer servers next to exchanges so they can h...
Eight New Insider Trading Arrests, Fourteen Total
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on November 6, 2009
... The SEC’s ongoing investigation of insider trading at hedge funds and stock trading firms has brought allegations against 14 Wall Street professionals.
The charged defendants include hedge ...
Hedge Fund Expert To Launch Own Fund
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on November 3, 2009
...harma has extensive experience in asset management, serving at a number of high-profile Wall Street Firms. He was previously on the Portfolio Management Team of the Merrill Lynch Large Cap Series Fund...
Emanuel presses for another Sarbanes-Oxley exemption
in Sox First, on November 3, 2009
...xemptions dating to 2004. SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro had granted yet another reprieve, giving small firms until next year to start paying auditors to scrutinize their internal controls. But in her pr...
Seen that? - An introduction to thin provisioning
in On Storage, on November 1, 2009
...ally provided by hedge fund prime brokers. The biggest teams coming from the largest prime brokers, firms like Goldman Sachs & Co., Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch, etc. These prime brokers have tea...
Too big to fail is too dumb
in Sox First, on October 29, 2009
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The US government is moving on financial firms that are "too big to fail" and where the government has no choice but to "rescue" them when they get into trouble. Its plan is to make it eas...
Seen that? - SNOCAP nets $15 million more
in Digital Music - The Future, on October 28, 2009
...y, the company plans to announce that it has raised a combined $10 million from two venture-capital firms, Walden Group's WaldenVC and Morgenthaler Ventures."Congratulations! Not much to see ...
Pay cuts for auto firm executives. What about banks?
in Sox First, on October 23, 2009
...s at these failed companies. But it's a different story with the banks and other financial services firms. The Economist reports that despite the fact that Citigroup and Bank of America lost billi...
Do the Pitfalls of Outsourcing Outweigh the Benefits?
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on October 19, 2009
...become a vital and active part of outsourcing management – just like it is a vital part of most firms' internal management. Until then, the risk profiles presented by outsourcing deals will be greate...
No autographs, say auditors
in Sox First, on October 18, 2009
...hich could provide useful information to investors and, in turn, provide an additional incentive to firms to improve the quality of all of their engagement partners." The PCAOB says it's in line with...
Big Picture: Venture Capital, Private Equity Still Drying Up
in TJ's Weblog, on October 17, 2009
... I wrote recently about how rosey the venture capital picture was for greentech firms. Several stories (Venture Beat here and here , TechCrunch ) have stressed the continuing downturn in privat...
Shared folders and more in Google Docs
in Wangtam, on 2009-10-14
...llery PHP script | free image gallery script
• Only 17 venture capital firms raise money in Q3 — fewest in 15 years
• Introducing Search Options for mobile
• CleanScores
• T-Mobile halts s...
A system to let institutions fail
in Sox First, on October 11, 2009
.... If failure is the only option, then doing it quickly with contractual obligations sold to healthy firms, assets sold off, intra-institutional lending, cancelling debt or equity and special protectio...
Seen that? - legal file sharing and movie downloads
in TJ's Weblog, on October 7, 2009
...y, the company plans to announce that it has raised a combined $10 million from two venture-capital firms, Walden Group's WaldenVC and Morgenthaler Ventures."Congratulations! Not much to see ...
What's Behind the Recent Spate of Legal Process Outsourcing Deals in the UK?
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on October 6, 2009
...n being that lower-cost non-attorney workers will be able to perform legal services.
Magic Circle firms, not wanting to be left behind, are lining up arrangements with offshore providers. This will p...
What's Behind the Recent Spate of Legal Process Outsourcing Deals in the UK?
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on October 6, 2009
...n being that lower-cost non-attorney workers will be able to perform legal services.
Magic Circle firms, not wanting to be left behind, are lining up arrangements with offshore providers. This will p...
Seen that? - NetApp supply chain woes frustrate users
in On Storage, on October 3, 2009
...General Motors is putting fresh pressure on its vast network of suppliers, which was trimmed by 500 firms in 2005, prompting fears of further U.S., European auto supplier bankruptcies. The price squee...
Should ratings agencies go the way of Arthur Andersen?
in Sox First, on October 3, 2009
... things about the current financial scandal is that there has been no similar reckoning against the firms that were supposed to be watching the system for the investment public. Why haven't the ra...
Security breaches up in 2009
in The CIO Weblog, on September 30, 2009
...the least addressed. It appears that this lack of attention has resulted in serious damages in many firms that didn't heed the warnings....
The Merger Wave
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on September 28, 2009
...de - for years, many have suspected that these organizations would be acquired by cash-rich Indian firms in an effort to expand their U.S. footprint. That trend failed to materialize to the level expe...
美国南方洪水泛滥
in Wangtam, on 2009-09-28
...oogle of Violating Telecom Laws
• Yahoo Board Member Maggie Wilderotter Resigns
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Outsourcing as an Economic Indicator
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on September 24, 2009
...day's Business Week , Mehul Srivastava described a decline in salaries and turnover in Indian firms, no doubt caused by the declining economy. That certainly parallels the global recession - part...
logiENERGY launches Peak Oil Fund
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on September 16, 2009
...ot;
The fund's goal is to purchase or make significant investments in oil and gas exploration firms for their reserve positions while supporting their production and exploration efforts with dir...
Lawyers and Outsourcing Deals
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on September 1, 2009
...from the outside, but over time bringing the deals inside or by outsourcing the entire task to law firms. This is how the legal services are procured.
But lets not forget their role as risk managers....
Investor Group to Buy Skype?
in The VoIP Weblog, on August 31, 2009
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TechCrunch's Michael Arrington reports that a group of venture capital and private equity firms are working together to acquire Skype from current owner eBay .
"Investors in the pro...
US taxpayer bailout for subprime firms
in Sox First, on August 31, 2009
...t of the US financial system. The Center for Public Integrity presents a new report showing that firms that created the subprime lending frenzy, including subsiiaries of Countrywide, Lehman Brother...
2009 Mid-Atlantic Biotech Conference
in The Biotech Weblog, on August 31, 2009
...nment representatives, executives, researchers, investors, entrepreneurs, and professional services firms-representing 30 states and 10 countries.
This year's conference will feature a Healthcare...
Banks bankrolling Congress
in Sox First, on August 27, 2009
...t put out by the non-profit Public Citizen group. According to the report, lobbyists and lobbying firms representing the biggest recipients of the bailout money, courtesy of the US taxpayer, schedul...
Pebble Beach 2009 Winner Horch, a Name Hardly Known
in Classical Drives, on August 21, 2009
...a car. And yet it has a fascinating history. August Horch and Company was one of three dozen German firms producing automobiles before the turn of the 20th Century. Its founder was a pioneering automo...
Accounting fee growth slows
in Sox First, on August 18, 2009
...with bean counters, although you would hardly call it a sector in trouble. As reported here , CPA firms are recording slower growth in fees. For firms collecting more than $2 million of fees every y...
Alwand Vahan Bracelets
in The Jewelry Weblog, on August 12, 2009
...New York City at 604 Fifth Avenue in 1968 after having worked for David Webb and other prestigious firms. By then Sasha had served in the US Armed Forces during the Cuban Missile Crisis and been memb...
Putting the presidential squeeze on the mortgage firms
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 29, 2009
... to the White House yesterday. Obama and his team wanted to put some pressure on mortgage-servicing firms to do more to rework the mortgage loans that homeowners are struggling to pay. More loan modif...
The missing XP - 7 upgrade path
in The CIO Weblog, on July 28, 2009
...o and he may be on to something.
"Obviously, many businesses will wait anyway (I know of some firms still running Windows 2000 and earlier OSs), but this Microsoft strategy will certainly scare ...
Mortgage firms get to tell Obama their side of the story
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 27, 2009
...Do you trust mortgage firms to carry out Pres. Barack Obama's programs designed to keep people from losing thier homes to foreclosure? How about the government itself? Do you trust it to do anythi...
Karoo vs. P2P
in P2P File Sharing, on July 27, 2009
...been an anomaly in the UK's telecoms scene. Kingston has a monopoly, and while in theory other firms could come and share its exchange, they haven't chosen to do so."
More here from Th...
The bailouts stink: Bernanke
in Sox First, on July 27, 2009
...e bailouts, claiming he did it to avoid a "Second Great Depression". As he put it, some firms were simply to big to fail. No doubt, the wisdom or otherwise of the bailouts will be debated...
The Retail ROI Calculator at RFID in Fashion 2009
in The RFID Weblog, on July 23, 2009
...alculator to determine if a rollout would deliver an ROI
Using the RFID Retail Calculator, retail firms could enter the average number of units on sales floor and back room along with average unit c...
VC's on Twitter
in TJ's Weblog, on July 22, 2009
...t's a great aggregation of VCs who tweet - both individually and by firm (quick - name all the firms that have 100% of the partners tweeting). Brad suggested that if you're involved in the...
More real estate culprits still making money off industry
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 21, 2009
... scamminmg these people, either. Loan-modification companies are not always the most trustworthy of firms.
Now there's news from the Center for Public Integrity that real estate appraisers in Cal...
VC Investment Bounces Back
in Biz Plan Hacks, on July 20, 2009
...lected up by those funds is at a dismal low point right now, actual investment by venture capital firms seems to be bouncing back. In Q2 (from April to June), venture capitalists invested a total of...
Regulating PE's & VC's? Treasury Wants To...
in Bizinformer, on July 20, 2009
...Department proposed a bill earlier this month that would regulate venture capital, private equity firms and hedge funds that had more than $30 million in assets. Registration with the SEC would ...
Evan Rapoport on Capital Introduction - Excerpt
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on July 18, 2009
... provided by hedge fund prime brokers. The biggest teams coming from the largest prime brokers, firms like Goldman Sachs & Co., Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch, etc. These prime brokers have tea...
CalPERS sues ratings agencies
in Sox First, on July 16, 2009
...pinion" and therefore protected. Koppel wrote: "Courts in the past have held that rating firms are protected against claims that they issued ratings that either were too high or to low. To ...
Goldman Sachs: behind the numbers
in Sox First, on July 15, 2009
... sustainable. Moreover, we continue to have concerns about the confidence sensitivity of securities firms with sizable trading operations and high reliance on wholesale funding, despite this strong re...
Carbon market bonanza for accountants
in Sox First, on July 10, 2009
... trading a license to print money. Earlier this week, we had reports that the Big Four accounting firms are beefing their expertise and setting up climate desks for their clients which include high ...
Virginia Nanotechnology Park Moves Forward
in Nanotechbuzz, on July 10, 2009
...basic nanotechnology research from 2003 through 2007 with 187. Virginia Tech and nearby nanotech firms captured 61 of them valued at $15 million, more grants than in any other region of the state.&q...
Install OS X On SD Card
in Wangtam, on 2009-07-01
... HTC Hero Pre-Order At Amazon UK!
• Microsoft puts Razorfish up for sale
• Telecom firms back standard phone charger in Europe
• Fennec Alpha 2 now available for Windows Mobile
• Vodafone eye...
Durbin-Grassley, Indian Outsourcing, and the H-1B Visa
in Global Mobility Report, on June 30, 2009
...itizenship for those workers.
The Indian outsourcing model takes a different approach. Outsourcing firms typically post visa workers in the U.S. on a short-term basis, in many cases about 18 months. ...
Does Obama's patchwork overhaul go far enough?
in Sox First, on June 18, 2009
...rge institutions that could destroy the financial system. The changes also force financial services firms to carry more capital to guard against losses. They will also have to retain a portion of the ...
Hard times for logistics and transportation companies...
in Supplychainer, on June 11, 2009
...cts their large logistics chain.
- The predicted growth haven't materialized so some logistics firms have ended up with extra resources.
So, like many other sectors, these companies have started...
The Twitpocalypse is Near: Will Your Twitter Client Survive?
in Wangtam, on 2009-06-11
...smaller firms
• Asustek Vows to Out-Apple Apple
• Breaking: Facebook Username Landrush to Start June 13 at Midnight
• Bing Off to a Good Start in First Week of Search Activity, According to comS...
50 Beautiful Flash Websites
in Wangtam, on 2009-06-10
...he European Parliament
• WWDC 2009 Predictions
• Super Chirp
• PC firms face China decree
• Seesmic To Launch New Desktop Version, iPhone App And Browser Based Client
• Scan Your Books And S...
Supply chain video: Short interview on SC Finance
in Supplychainer, on June 8, 2009
...panies in car business have put working capital reduction in their agenda and gives examples of the firms like KPN (Telecom operator in Netherlands) and Syngenta and their initiatives.
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Supply chain video: Supply chain scorecard
in Supplychainer, on June 1, 2009
... there are less examples of the concepts and models such as SCOR reference model adopted by several firms at once. However, I came across another new one which is becoming mainstream among Electric co...
National Venture Capital Association: Suggestions and Blind Spots
in TJ's Weblog, on May 25, 2009
...nstead of buying them to speculate on and flip quickly. And a final suggestion was that taxes on VC firms not be raised past the current capital gains framework.
Bulger at PE Hub made some interesti...
Britain to lose AAA rating, US is next
in Sox First, on May 24, 2009
...d of course, the perverse irony is that the US is running up a budget deficit to save the financial firms that had been given AAA ratings by those same ratings agencies....
The refi money is still flowing
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on May 21, 2009
...ir employees at a record pace. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, mortgage brokerage firms slashed 3,900 employees in January alone. This leaves a smaller number of loan officers to han...
Employee disengagement in a recession
in Sox First, on May 21, 2009
... engagement levels should set alarm bells ringing in boardrooms because there is some evidence that firms with highly engaged workforces tend to outperform stragglers." So with more companies cu...
Cashing in on the disgust with banks
in Sox First, on May 19, 2009
...l be losing market share to such forces as peer-to-peer lending, Islamic finance, boutique advisory firms and retailers setting up their own banks. All of them will be cashing in on the public disgust...
Financial crisis winners to hurt banks
in Sox First, on May 16, 2009
Who are the big winners coming out of this financial crisis? And how will they threaten to destroy banks? The Economist identifies four big winners that will decimate the banking sector. These include the advisory boutiques which are cashing in on the banks destroying their reputations and da...
Dayton RFID Convergence Center: World’s First Business Incubator for Start Ups
in The RFID Weblog, on May 13, 2009
...Convergence Center is located at the thirty acre Tech Town Business Park and is scouting for RFID firms who would like to bring over their technology experience. It will be offering flexible facilit...
SpringSource Buys Hyperic
in Java Entrepreneur, on May 11, 2009
...n popularity in the five years since it was created, and it has won numerous accolades from analyst firms, such as Gartner, which named it a 'company to watch in 2009,'" writes SD Times&...
