The plethora of new pricing schemes from telecom companies, like 'one paisa per second' billing, has squeezed the margins of their business process outsourcing partners.
The proportion of women to men falls radically after the mid-management level.
Professional services firm Ernst & Young bagged the contract from UIDAI to become consulting partner for the project.
The increases are expected to be in the 8 to 12 per cent range, which do not compare too badly with the 13 to 15 per cent increments of pre-slowdown years such as 2007-08.
The common man's main grouse is high inflation numbers. But there are other anomalies as well that need to be addressed.
The project involves building a network around a dozen secured centres, each priced at pound 250 mn.
With necessity being the mother of invention, commercial property developers are going off the beaten track to meet the challenge of a huge sales slowdown.
India's second largest IT company, Infosys Technologies, for instance, has narrowed on the new areas to drive its growth.
National Association of Software and Service Companies had a humble beginning.
The sector may not touch the 30-40 per cent growth rates it witnessed before the slowdown, but an register above 20 per cent growth as it nears calendar year 2011, says Partha Iyengar, regional research head and Vice President, Gartner India.
Unlike fixed deposits or other recurring deposits, the rate will be reviewed every three months.
Once confined to secret chambers, hackers now operate even at the behest of nations - all with the stealth shown by the Greeks to destroy Troy with the Trojan horse.
Firstsource was perhaps the first BPO that set shop in the US city of Buffalo in 2004 with 287 employees.
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Bhargava along with Harsha Raghavan, the former India head of Candover Investments, have formed Steer Capital.
"The general benchmark that we are getting to hear is in the range of 5-15 per cent. Clearly, the 30-40 per cent hike days are behind us. Along with the slowdown in the US markets, there is a general mismatch in demand and supply. I think firms are being cautious before announcing huge hikes," says Shiv Aggarwal, CEO of ABC Consultants.
The 'First Status Report on Technology Business Incubation' in India also stated that 20 to 30 per cent of incubated companies make it big.
For an investor, gold is a necessity in the portfolio.
Day Zero was created when demand for IIM graduates had peaked and the institutes had to resort to creative mathematics to accommodate big recruiters without offending the existing ones. Falling job market has forced the B-schools to review the strategy, including placement fee revision.
Mahindra Satyam still has to face 13 Class Action Law suits filed in the US. Analysts peg the cash outflow for these cases to be around $100 million. Satyam also has to get large marquee outsourcing deals, and is yet to restate its accounts which will give investors a good picture of where the company stands.
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