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Indian Outsourcer Breaks $1 Billion Quarterly Sales Barrier

Having booked $3 billion in revenue through its first three fiscal quarters, TCS is now on pace to become India's first $4 billion outsourcer.




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    Paul McDougall

    Next For India? Business Analytics
    Accenture is adding 8,000 positions to its Indian operations, a move that will push the outsourcer's total headcount on the subcontinent to about 50,000. Many of the new employees will work on business analytics tools. Last week, IBM opened a biz analytics lab in the country. Smell a trend yet?

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    Eric Zeman

    Sprint Targets Cyber Monday Instead Of Black Friday
    Just before the long Thanksgiving holiday weekend, AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon Wireless all announced sales for Black Friday and over the weekend. Conspicuously absent was any sort of sales event promoted by Sprint. Turns out Sprint was saving its deals for Cyber Monday instead of Black Friday.

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    Randy George

    Saving 70% Per Month In The Cloud
    I need to add an FTP server to my environment, and as I sit here and struggle with how I’m going to do that and stay under my annual budget, it occurred to me that the cloud isn’t a bad option anymore. The cost savings are pretty compelling, read on for a quick and dirty cost analysis.

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    Ed Hansberry

    Google Branded Phone Rumored in 2010
    Ever since Google's Android phone has been known about, there has been speculation that Google would make a "Google Phone" to sell. Google has steadfastly maintained they don't want anything to do with hardware though. They are satisfied with making the platform and working with hardware makers to bring Android to the consumers. That may change.

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