“Forbes Time Capsule” And Outsourcing

November 12th, 2005 Talent shortage will impede the development of China's outsourcing industry, despite the optimistic prediction on China's IT outsourcing industry in the coming ten years predicted Qu Zhonghua, a senior program manager of IBM China's Shenzhen branch, at the 11th Joint International Computer Conference (JICC 2005) held in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality. The rapid growth of the global outsourcing industry has provided opportunities for China's outsourcing industry in recent years, but the opportunities will not turn into successes if the country fails to provide sufficient qualified workforce, he said.

August 21st, 2006 Shares of salesforce.com, which manages customer relationship data for corporations, jumped 19%, as the San Francisco-based firm beat consensus estimates across the board. This was despite reported profit loss of $145,000 for the second quarter.

April 20th, 2006 The first quarter of 2006 has seen the global outsourcing industry posting a record performance. The segment saw $22.7 billion in total contract value (TCV) for contracts valued at $50 million or more, up 173% y-o-y, comprising a record number of 83 outsourcing transactions, according to TPI Index, a quarterly report on the state of the global outsourcing industry by sourcing advisory firm TPI Inc.

October 20th, 2005 Blogger Rajneesh thinks its funny to outsource homework to India. In reality homework do get outsourced to India rather frequently.

June 4th, 2007 All hell breaks loose! Imagine this: "Most of us are only pretending to work while secretly hoping the project gets canceled after you get fired by the board". Today's Dilbert is a bit of fresh air after days of stale Elbonian humor on outsourcing.

August 26th, 2006 Forbes editor Michael Noer has a very interesting article, based on scientific studies, why it is a very bad idea to marry career women. Why? Because if many social scientists are to be believed, you run a higher risk of having a rocky marriage.

August 23rd, 2006 It may be inconceivable to many but Google has actually lost search market share by one percentage point while Yahoo gained in July. ComScore Networks said Google’s share of all searches dropped a full percentage point to 43.7% during the month of July, while Yahoo’s share increased by 0.3 percentage points to 28.8%.

February 21st, 2006 Industry experts at the meeting of Nasscom, India’s outsourcing alliance, said on Thursday that skills shortage was the biggest threat to the outsourcing industry’s blazing growth. From ground zero I am observing several interesting effects of this shortage.

January 24th, 2004 Lets take a look at outsourcing from a global perspective. I have outsourced work and now provide outsourcing services.

January 19th, 2006 I was very surprised to see the article Some Students Use Net To Hire Experts to Do Their School Work on WSJ by Lee Gomes. I had written about exactly the same topic on 20th October 2005.

June 4th, 2007 Overseas outsourcing has transformed U.S. economy. Now some families are adopting outsourcing for personal tasks, getting them done for a fraction of what they would cost at home.

January 11th, 2006 Major Indian outsourcing outfit Infosys Technologies reported on Wednesday a 31 per cent rise in its Q3 net profit, while meeting the expectations for the quarter. The company said that its net profit surged to Rs 642 crore in the quarter ended December 31, 2005, as compared to Rs 496 crore in the year-ago quarter.

March 23rd, 2006 Yet another tale of panic over outsourcing. In case you've been worrying about how the war in Iraq will end, or the coming of avian flu, or the extinction of the universe as we drift into the cosmic void, well, relax.

September 26th, 2006 Oracle (nasdaq: ORCL) surged more than 11% to a new 52-week high on Wednesday backed by strong first quarter earnings and underscoring the strength of the company's decision to grow by acquisition. Oracle spent about $20 billion to buy PeopleSoft in 2005 and Siebel Systems this year, solidifying its place in the market for corporate applications.

March 25th, 2009 THIRUVANANTHAPURAM - An eight-member delegation from China's Shenyang city Wednesday visited the information technology campus Technopark here to pick up tips on software outsourcing. The officials from the Shenyang Information Industry Bureau (SIIB) said they would study Kerala's software outsourcing services to set up similar parks back home.