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Bangalore blooming into innovation hothouse
Comment No longer just the domain of call centres, Bangalore has matured into the place for world-class research and development, says Saritha Rai. Years ago, when the world pictured Bangalore they imagined an... [27 Nov 2009]
Why are Indian outsourcing companies such bashful suitors?
Comment The top three Indian firms each have around 100,000 employees in large tech hubs such as Bangalore and smaller cities such as Jaipur and Coimbatore. Smaller outsourcing firms such as Bangalore-based... [06 Nov 2009]
Downturn means fewer outsourcing workers saying 'I do'
Comment Girls' parents worry about the salary and career projections of young men employed in the software industry, says Kris Lakshmikanth, CEO of Head Hunters India, a Bangalore-based hiring firm. These... [07 Oct 2009]
India outsourcing workers stressed to the limit
Comment Globalisation and the outsourcing industry in particular have brought rapid and enormous changes in the culture of India cities such as Bangalore, Hyderabad and Pune. The cheery, chatty voice at the... [25 Aug 2009]
Offshoring: Is resistance weakening at Whitehall?
News Bangalore, the city that plays home to some of India's biggest outsourcers (Photo credit: Steve Ranger, silicon.com) Indication of a possible shift in public bodies' attitudes to offshoring came last... [03 Aug 2009]
India's social ills soothed by outsourcing leaders?
Comment Technology can handle scale very well, unlike the paper and pen systems used in India until now," says Arun Ramu, who quit as Infosys' product engineering and testing division head to join... [27 Jul 2009]
iPhone 3.0, holograms and the shed birthplace of Silicon Valley
Photo Photo credit: Stephen Shankland/CNET silicon.com columnist Saritha Rai recently visited a giant training centre run by India's second-largest outsourcing company, Infosys Technologies, in Mysore, a three-hour drive from... [03 Jul 2009]
Apple bonanza, crime breathalysers and broadband tax
News Find out what silicon.com's Indian correspondent, Saritha Rai, discovered when she visited Infosys's training centre in Mysore, three hours from Bangalore. Turning to India, the country's outsourcing... [02 Jul 2009]
Indian outsourcing trainees feel heat of recession
Comment Instead, they are bussed off to the training campus in Mysore, a three-hour drive from Infosys' headquarters in Bangalore. Evidently the showpiece training campus in Mysore, like Infosys's vast corporate headquarters in... [23 Jun 2009]
Photos: India's mega outsourcing training centre
Photo silicon.com's Saritha Rai recently visited the giant training centre run by India's second-largest outsourcing company, Infosys Technologies, in Mysore, a three-hour drive from Bangalore. The 336-acre... [23 Jun 2009]
Bangalore bashing: Recession gets nasty
Comment Rallying American corporations around a protectionist cause, Obama criticised the current tax code for saying companies "should pay lower taxes if you create a job in Bangalore, India, than if you create... [28 May 2009]
Tech workers ignite Indian elections
Comment A new, vocal group of voters - outsourcing workers, many from India's tech hub Bangalore - are shaping the country's upcoming elections, says Saritha Rai. Like never before, hundreds of thousands of... [21 Apr 2009]
Banking on Application Development
White Paper Working with standard Microsoft and select application tools, the team, including one of BearingPoint's Global Development Centers, an offshore facility based in Bangalore, India, developed a solution to... [01 Apr 2009]
Bangalore's brain gain
Comment Bangalore has always been an IT powerhouse - but now returnees are adding their experience into the mix, says Saritha Rai. In mid 2007, 20 years after he went to the US to work, Madan Moudgal made the journey back to... [17 Mar 2009]
Hard times hit Bangalore
Comment The chilling effect of the economic downturn is being felt all over Bangalore, India's outsourcing hub. Inside the neo-modern building of a Bangalore outsourcing company, thousands of... [25 Feb 2009]
