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November 16th, 2009 
Tushar Mathur 
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Comments OffIDC says India’s domestic BPO market to touch $6.82 bn
November 13th, 2009 Tushar Mathur After establishing itself as a major player in the international BPO market, India is now set to shift focus on the domestic market, which is projected to grow at over 30% annually.
According to a report by IT research firm IDC India, the country’s domestic BPO market, with nearly 500 players, will grow at a CAGR of 33.3% to touch revenues of $6.82 billion by 2013, up from $1.62 billion in 2008.
The report said the domestic BPO industry would evolve from just running isolated processes for customers to engaging more deeply in identifying and transforming core business processes.
“Positive market indicators of an economic recovery, unbundling of mega outsourcing deals and large unaddressed white spaces such as regional language services support the current optimism,” the report said.
Currently, the BFSI vertical contributes the lion’s share of 37% to the domestic sector’s revenues, while telecom contributes about one-fourth to it.
Other verticals like utilities and services, energy, food and hospitality, aerospace and automotives, consumer durables and government contribute 17%, while the travel segment contributes 8% to the revenue.
Agencies
Posted in business, india, News Tags: Aerospace, Automotives, Bn, Bpo Industry, Cagr, Consumer Durables, Core Business, Domestic Sector, Economic Recovery, Energy Food, Language Services, Lion, Market India, Market Indicators, Optimism, Outsourcing Deals, Regional Language, Unbundling, Verticals, White Spaces Comments OffTen ways to Evaluate a Mutual Fund
November 13th, 2009 Tushar Mathur Every Mutual Fund agent and financial Web site has different theories on how to evaluate Mutual Funds. Many of these theories focus on simply analyzing the fund’s recent performance and the reputation of the fund house, which is rarely enough to differentiate a good investment from a bad one.
In reality, Mutual Fund analysis is a sophisticated problem studied by global investment professionals, and while no list can do complete justice to the problem, there are ten nuanced factors that professionals look at:
1.
Posted in business, india, Mutual Funds, News, NRI Investing Tags: Bear Market, Bse, Bull Rally, Cap Funds, Critical Factor, Equity Fund, Fund Decision, Global Investment, Investment Decisions, Investment Professionals, Manager Profile, Mutual Fund Analysis, Performance Fund, Performance Track, Rally 2, Relative Performance, Small Cap Fund, Small Cap Stocks, Sophisticated Problem, Term Performance Comments OffIDBI Bank, Central Bank announces cut in deposit rates by 0.25-0.5 per cent
November 13th, 2009 Tushar Mathur Central Bank of India and IDBI Bank- two state-owned banks have slashed deposit rates by 0.25-0.5 per cent in various maturities in order to bring down the cost of funds.
Before country’s largest lender State Bank of India has reduced its deposit rates by a similar margin.
IDBI Bank revised rates will be effective from November 16 while the Central Bank has to yet announce the rate reduction officially.
After revision on one year to less than two years maturity deposits IDBI Bank offers a rate of 6.5 per cent as against 6.75 per cent, informed IDBI Bank sources.
On tenure 2 years to less than 1,100 days deposits, bank will offer rate of 7 per cent (7.25 per cent) while that of 1,100 days maturity deposits will now attract a rate of 7.25 per cent (7.5 per cent) earlier.
Moreover on 1,100-days to 5 years, 5-years to 7-years and 7-years to 10-years deposits bank will offer 7 per cent (7.25 per cent), 7.5 per cent (7.75 per cent) and 7.75 per cent (8 per cent) earlier, the bank said.
The bank said senior citizens will get 0.5 per cent above the card rate.
Posted in business, india, News, NRI Banking, NRI Investing, Personal Finance Tags: 10 Years, Bank Of India, Bank Owned, banks, Central Bank Of India, Idbi Bank, Maturities, Maturity, Senior Citizens, State Bank, State Bank Of India, Tenure Comments OffWhy Yahoo! want to chip in for unique ID cards project?
November 12th, 2009 Tushar Mathur I was raised as a pretty poor farm girl in Wisconsin and always thought of upgrading myself. So I over-achieved! I was lucky…” A characteristically short bio from Carol Ann Bartz, the feisty chief executive of the $7.2 billion internet company Yahoo!
Posted in business, india, News Tags: Carol Ann, Colourful Language, Company Yahoo, Farm Girl, Golf Handicap, Internet Company, Jerry Yang, Knee Replacement, Knee Surgery, Management Style, Regulatory Approvals, Search Space, Software Giant, Stupor, Sunnyvale California, Tedium, Top Job, Vertical Applications, White Wine, Yahoo Ceo Comments OffBanks focusing on recurring deposits to garner long-term resources
November 11th, 2009 Tushar Mathur Although top bankers are calling out for the need to increase low cost current and savings account (CASA) deposits, on the other hand they have asked their branches to speed up the process acquire long-term resources under recurring deposit (RD) schemes.
It is not difficult to find out the reason why banks are moving their focus on RDs.
Posted in business, india, News, NRI Banking, NRI Investing, Personal Finance Tags: Asset Liability, Bank Of India, Central Bank Of India, Depositor, India Bank, Infrastructure Projects, Installments, Long Term Resources, Lump Sum, Rds, Resource Base, Rs 1, Rs 50, S Education, savings account, Systematic Investment, Tax Deduction, Term Deposit Rates, Union Bank, Union Bank Of India Comments OffFixed Deposit rates can increase
November 11th, 2009 Tushar Mathur In the recent credit policy review of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) there were indications of rising interest rate which is good news for those who prefer to invest in fixed deposits.
Posted in business, india, News, NRI Banking, NRI Investing, Personal Finance Tags: Bank Of India, Decline, Financial Markets, First Quarter, Fixed Deposit Rates, Fixed Deposits, Floaters, Incentive Packages, Inflation, Interest Rate, Moving Upwards, Percentage Points, Poor Performance, Quarters, Reserve Bank of India, Revival Mode, Scrutiny, Term Paper, Tough Times, Zero Levels Comments OffGoogle enters mobile advertising space with AdMob acquisition
November 11th, 2009 Tushar Mathur In a push to expand its digital advertising empire to cellphones, Google has agreed to acquire AdMob, a fast-growing mobile advertising start-up, for $750 million in stock, the companies said.
AdMob is one of the top sellers of banner ads on iPhone applications and Web pages that can be retrieved from mobile phones.
Posted in business, india, News Tags: Acquisition, Banner Ads, Cellphones, Digital Advertising, Ecosystem, Empire, Forrester Research, Google, iPhone, Mobile Advertising, Mobile Business, Mobile phone, Mobile Phones, Neil Strother, Phone Advertising, Stock, Top Sellers, Web Pages Comments OffAccenture on a hiring spree in India; To hire 8,000 by 2010
November 9th, 2009 Tushar Mathur Global technology and consultancy firm, Accenture has said that it is going to add around 8,000 people in India by the end of next year taking its total employee base in the country to 50,000.
“We are 42,000 right now and we imagine we will be about 50,000 by the end of 2010,” said Accenture Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, William D Green on the sidelines of the India Economic Summit.
Posted in business, india, News Tags: 000 People, Accenture, Centres Of Excellence, Chief Executive Officer, D Green, Economic Summit, Focus, Global Downturn, Global Technology, india, Insights, Pharmaceutical, Sidelines, Spree, Telecommunications Comments OffBy 2010 Indian cos to see 20-30% pick up in hiring
November 8th, 2009 Tushar Mathur Riding high on a six to seven per cent expected economic growth and with the global economy gradually bouncing back, India Inc is likely to hire 20-30 per cent more talent in CY 10, a top industry official said.
“In 2010 (January-December), I envisage atleast 20-30 per cent increase in recruitments by companies,” recruitment consultancy firm, Fun & Joy At Work’s Chief Executive Officer, R L Bhatia, told the media here.
This would be over and above the 30 per cent dip in hiring that was witnessed last year, Bhatia said.
Fun & Joy At Work is a nine-year-old recruitment firm with offices across Mumbai and Singapore.
Posted in business, india, News Tags: Bhatia, Bio Technology, Caution, Chief Executive Officer, Cy, Economic Growth, Global Economy, India Inc, Indian Cos, Indian Economy, Joy At Work, Media Telecom, Mumbai, Recruitment Consultancy Firm, Recruitment Firm, Recruitments, Sectors, Slowdown, Substantial Investments, Technology Media Comments OffIntel to partner with telecom major ITI
November 7th, 2009 Tushar Mathur Intel, the world’s largest chip maker, is planning to participate in bids invited by Indian state-owned telecom equipment maker ITI Ltd to set up joint ventures, the Business Standard reported on Friday.
ITI intends to be a minority partner in the proposed joint ventures with a 26 per cent stake according to the bid proposals, the newspaper said.
It said Intel was interested in making the hardware and consumer premise equipment around WiMAX technology, which provides for wireless transmission of data up to 75 megabytes per second.
Though interested parties have been asked to participate before Jan 29, 2010, the telecoms ministry is holding a pre-bid conference before selecting them, the paper said.
Other global players that have showed interest include Huawei, Alcatel-Lucent, Samsung and Hitachi, the paper said.
A spokeswoman for Intel in India could not immediately respond to the report.
Agencies
Posted in business, india, News Tags: Alcatel, Alcatel-Lucent, Bid Proposals, Chip Maker, Global Players, Hitachi, Huawei, Intel, Interested Parties, Iti, Jan 29, Joint Ventures, Lucent, Megabytes, Premise Equipment, Spokeswoman, Stake, Telecom Equipment Maker, telecoms, Wireless Transmission Comments OffJavaScript programming tools now from Google
November 6th, 2009 Tushar Mathur With a project called Closure Tools, Google plans to start helping developers who aspire to match the company’s proficiency in creating Web sites and Web applications. Google is a strong proponent of using JavaScript to write Web-based programs, which is a part of its Web-centric ethos, reports CNET News.
Indeed, the company has pushed the language to its limits with services such as Gmail and Google Docs, and it developed its Chrome browser in part to enable JavaScript programs to run faster.
Posted in business, india, News Tags: Business Methods, Creating Web Sites, Firebug, Firefox Browser, Gmail, Google, Google Docs, Google Engine, Html User, Javascript Program, Javascript Programs, Marketing Strategies, New Marketing, Open Source Software, Page Speed, Programming Tools, Second Element, Sophisticated Technology, String Manipulation, Tools Project Comments OffRetail sector to grow at 28% during 2008-12 in India
November 6th, 2009 Tushar Mathur During 2008-2012, the IT market in the Indian retail sector is likely to grow at an estimated compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 23 percent; reaching $1.4 billion by 2012, says a report.
Posted in business, india, News Tags: Advisory Firm, Business Challenge, Cagr, Chief Information Officers, Cios, Compound Annual Growth Rate, Economic Scenario, Enterprise Resource Planning, Hypermarkets, Indian Retailers, Market Opportunities, Research Software, Retail Companies, Retail Sector, Springboard, Store Solution, Supply Chain Management, Supply Chain Management Scm, Vendor Selection, Window Of Opportunity Comments OffBanks witness increase in low-cost deposits
November 6th, 2009 Tushar Mathur Banks are experiencing increase in flow of funds in low-cost deposits rather than in bulk deposits.
The reason for increase in the share of low –cost Casa deposits is mainly because of revival in stock markets, economic activity and a fall in term-deposit rates.
As per the latest reports from banks, in most of the public sector banks there has been increase of 20 per cent in the low-cost deposits during the current financial year (2009-10).
Posted in business, india, News, NRI Banking, NRI Investing, Personal Finance Tags: Bank Accounts, Banking System, Current Account Balances, Economic Activity, Fixed Deposits, Flo, Initial Public Offers, Institutional Investors, Investment options, Ipo, Minimum Balance, Private Sector Bank, Public Sector Banks, Revival, Savings Accounts, Savings Banks, Second Half, Spite, Stock Markets, Term Deposit Rates Comments OffWill the Web run out of address space?
November 4th, 2009 Tushar Mathur The world could well run out of internet addresses next year, unless urgent action is taken to switch to a new generation of net addresses, the European Commission has warned.
According to the commission, businesses urgently need to upgrade to internet protocol version six or IPv6, a new version of the web’s addressing protocol, which will hugely increase the number of available addresses.
The IPv6 system has been ready for over a decade and is providing 340 trillion web addresses.
Posted in business, india, News Tags: Address Space, Billions, Daily Telegraph, Devices Connected To The Internet, Directorate General, Ec, European Commission, Information Society, Internet Addresses, Internet Agencies, Internet Protocol Version, Ip Address, Ipv4 And Ipv6, Ipv4 Protocol, New Generation, Survey Found That, Sustainable Growth, Trillion, Urgent Action, Web Addresses Comments Off
