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Offshoring Secrets: Is India Center Becoming Costly?

Posted on Sunday, Sep 23rd 2007

By Utkarsh Rai, Guest Author, Author of “Offshoring Secrets”. Recently this question has flooded the web and the print media. Some companies are thinking about pulling back from India. So what is the real answer? Globally, weakening of the dollar has impacted almost every country whether it is Israel, China, Malaysia or Poland, and therefore

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Posted on Saturday, Sep 22nd 2007

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Offshoring Secrets: How Can India Center Gain More Respect?

Posted on Saturday, Sep 22nd 2007

By Utkarsh Rai, Guest Author, Author of “Offshoring Secrets”. Almost everyone in an offshore center in India are aware of the tag of “cheap labor” and the “cost advantage”. These are the two sides of the same coin. Where the first one hurts feelings and sentiments, the second one offers a feeling of job security.

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Web 3.0 & IAC (Part 5)

Posted on Friday, Sep 21st 2007

Conclusion IAC has leadership positions in the Personals, and Local / Ticketing verticals. Through Expedia, it also has a great position in Travel. However, there are concerns with HSN Network, Lending Tree and Real Estate segments, though they are strong brands with competitive positioning. IAC holds more than 60 online properties and someone could easily

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Why BI Appliances?

Posted on Friday, Sep 21st 2007

By David Hatch, Guest Author As I wrote in last week’s blog entry, the term “appliance” is now being applied to BI. This term is used to define a technology offering that combines some form of software with some form of either hardware or other platform software (see Wikipedia URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_appliance for a really detailed

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QualComm: The Margins

Posted on Friday, Sep 21st 2007

By Vijay Nagarajan, Guest Author In the first part of this series, “QualComm: Legal Battles galore”, we looked at the legal events involving QualComm this year. We further looked at the significance of these events in “QualComm:The aftermath”. In this piece, I shall delve a little deeper into the impact of the legal battles and

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Eric Benhamou: The Saga Of Palm (Part 10)

Posted on Friday, Sep 21st 2007

SM: The big opportunity that I felt Palm missed out on was on the software side. There was a huge opportunity for enterprise integration. RIM was very good with the email, but that was it. They didn’t push it any further. Palm had good implementation of the Windows OS, and they could have gone in

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Web 3.0 & IAC (Part 4)

Posted on Thursday, Sep 20th 2007

Acquisition Targets IAC has made a host of acquisitions in the past few years in the Internet space. IAC acquired Ask.com in 2005 for $1.9 billion. Over the past two years it has made some interesting acquisitions including Shoebuy and CollegeHumour. The table below lists all the acquisitions made by IAC between 2001 and 2006.

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