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New IT Act Rules – Indian Outsourcing Relieved

The IT Department has clarified that overseas clients, who outsource work to Indian service providers, will not be required to take additional consent from their own customers on collection and usage of personal data. The move comes as a relief to the Indian outsourcing industry, as the rules that were earlier notified in April this year [...]

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Shailender Singh: Convention Chairman, NAR India 2011

Shailender Singh is Chairman of NAR-India Convention Mr. Shailender Singh, of Goodwill Coordinators is the Chairman of the upcoming NAR India Convention on July 23rd & 24th in Hyderabad and also the Executive Committee Member and Chairman, Technology and Internet strategy of NAR-India (National Association of Realtors – India) as well as a Representative of [...]

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Social Media Day – A Real Revolution?

Social Media Day was celebrated yesterday with myriad meetups world over and many of these were ironically in the Real world i.e. offline. This brings us to the point of debate – What is Real? The media as we know it has outgrown the traditional and embraced the rebel with guerrilla marketing and viral videos offering more bang [...]

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Real Estate: Rising Stars!

The largest growing network in the World is not the Network of Realtors as you and me would well like it to be. Mark Zuckerberg who is trying to make the world a more open place by helping people connect and share is the founder of Facebook – the world’s fastest growing network of people [...]

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Shailender Singh is Convention Chairman at NAR India

Shailender Singh is Chairman of NAR India Convention Mr. Shailender Singh, of Goodwill Coordinators is the Chairman of the upcoming NAR India Convention on July 23rd & 24th in Hyderabad and also the Executive Committee Member and Chairman, Technology and Internet strategy of NAR-India (National Association of Realtors – India) as well as a Representative [...]

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IT, ITES-BPO Industry Upbeat

After an initial setback due to the global recession, the Indian information technology (IT) and information technology-enabled services-business process outsourcing (ITES-BPO) industry is back on the high-growth path, according to the findings of a survey of SMEs in the sector, conducted by IndiaMART Knowledge Services (IKS). The outlook for the future is also positive, as [...]

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Offshore IT & BPO Services Still Popular

Setting up offshore IT services and business services subsidiaries has once again become a preferred route for multinational companies wanting to tap talent in low-cost locations, because they meet the in-house services requirements of companies. The focus of these subsidiaries are known in the outsourcing industry as “captive centers” has shifted from mere cost-cutting to [...]

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Insurance BPO Market Blossoms

U.S. insurers are becoming increasingly reliant on business process outsourcing providers, says Boston-based Celent who anticipates a combined annual growth rate of 10% in the North American core insurance BPO market, with insurer expenditures growing from an estimated $2.3 billion in 2011 to $3.7 billion by 2016. The report, authored by Celent Senior Analyst Mike [...]

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BPO Market in India to reach $2.47 billion by 2014

Gartner, Inc. reports business process outsourcing market in India is expected to reach $2.47 billion by 2014 from $1.139 billion in 2010 which was a 28.6 percent increase from 2009. The predicted 23.2 percent increase is expected to continue climbing well into the decade, according to the report, where the outsourcing market figures to increase [...]

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Indian IT in Healthcare Vertical

Indian IT majors have started tapping into the healthcare services vertical, which was hitherto unexplored but going by the adage ‘Better late than never’, it has in recent years emerged among the fastest growing verticals after Banking, Financial Services and Insurance (BFSI). After the recession, being less affected and therefore more open to IT spends, [...]

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