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Essar’s Aegis group looks for $50-$200M acquisitions in Europe
By Tarry Singh at 23 August, 2010, 9:46 am
Aegis Ltd., an outsourcing unit of India’s Essar Group, will pursue acquisitions in the Middle East, Europe, Latin America and Africa during the next two years. The company is targeting deals in the $50 million to $200 million range and intends to complete one each quarter, Managing Director Aparup Sengupta said in an interview in [...]
Read More >>BPO M&A: Sutherland Global buys Adventity Global
By Tarry Singh at 12 May, 2010, 4:49 am
The purchase of Adventity will help Sutherland, which is backed by Standard Chartered Private Equity and Oak Investment Partners, to firm up its presence in Asia, Africa and the Middle East, Dilip Vellodi, chairman and chief executive of Sutherland, told Reuters. These regions account for about 15 percent of a $175 billion global outsourcing services [...]
Read More >>Apax Partners LLP buys Brazil’s Outsourcing firm Tivit for $1 Billion
By Tarry Singh at 10 May, 2010, 12:39 pm
The coming 10 years will be defining as a lot of technological, geo-political, trans- and continantional changes will redefine the global sourcing landscape. A lot of protectionism will creep in. Outsiders will have to re-develop their strategies, make good and dedicated local and regional acquisitions. Some big local acquisitions too will come in. TCS, as [...]
Read More >>2010 Outsourcing Deal value $38 Billion; Suppliers battle for contracts
By Tarry Singh at 10 May, 2010, 4:25 am
Outsourcing experts from research firms such as Ovum said around 500 contracts worth nearly $37.5 billion are set to expire by September this year, ranging anywhere between $1 million and $1 billion each. “It’s a long, tough summer,” said a senior official at one of the Indian tech firms exploring opportunities at telecom majors such [...]
Read More >>Cognizant acquires a Program-Management Consulting firm
By Tarry Singh at 10 May, 2010, 4:18 am
TEANECK, N.J., May 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH), a leading provider of information technology, consulting, and business process outsourcing services, announced today it has acquired The PIPC Group, a global program management consulting firm based in London. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed. With more than 200 professionals worldwide, primarily in the [...]
Read More >>Greenpeace: Cloud Computing will make the world a much warmer place
By Tarry Singh at 2 April, 2010, 2:11 am
I and my co-author proposed a vision paper suggesting a fiscally driven multi-state level policy where energy companies can use a common strategy to drive down the waste and increase efficiency while still staying competitive. That paper was called “Smart Metering the Clouds” . This was supposed to help us all stop the massive build-out [...]
Read More >>2015: Amazon would have lost digital book market-share to Apple by 35%!
By Tarry Singh at 1 April, 2010, 11:21 am
While the original article is about how Amazon and Barnes and Noble were all letting publishers sell books at their own prizes, the most important threat to Amazon is its stronghold on the publishing market. It is curently 90% and is about to drop to as much as 55% by 2015! This is a massive [...]
Read More >>Global Economy: Is China closing for business?
By Tarry Singh at 26 March, 2010, 12:51 am
Nearly a decade after China’s entry into the World Trade Organization, many foreign companies say the warm reception they once received has turned frosty. While China can still be highly profitable, some question how long that will last as Beijing changes the rules to give a lift to its domestic companies, especially state-owned enterprises. A [...]
Read More >>Unified Consumer Experience in homes by Apple with HDTV plans; US market alone $31 Billion!
By Tarry Singh at 24 March, 2010, 4:53 am
Apple is indeed in unique position to get into a lot more than what is detailed in the article and thus ending up jeopardizing many big players such as Cisco, Tandberg (which Cisco wants to buy), Wii etc etc Let’s look at all other possibilities that puts Apple in this unique position 1. Online SOHO Experience [...]
Read More >>Indian Data Center market to grow to $2.2 Billion, a CAGR of 22%
By Tarry Singh at 17 March, 2010, 8:37 am
And this doesn’t come as a surprise to us since we have been watching this market for quite a while. A data center services market has more potential and particularly the 3rd party data center services that firms like Google, Amazon can provide will win over the traditional SI players [who own their own data [...]
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