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Bangalore closing gap on Silicon Valley
News Bangalore may be on the verge of overtaking Silicon Valley as the biggest IT employment region in the world on the back of the rise in offshore outsourcing, according to some estimates. Gowda claims that Bangalore has already overtaken Silicon...
[July 29, 2004, 8:55]
Bangalore, Mumbai lose their outsourcing lustre
News According to Pierre Audoin Consultants (PAC), outsourcing companies are increasingly looking outside Bangalore and Mumbai when choosing new offshoring services bases. According to Nick Mayes, senior consultant at PAC, conditions for outsourcers in...
[January 8, 2009, 8:35]
HSBC Bangalore suffers £233,000 security breach
Talkback Another possible fraud by female, never investigated by Hsbc seniors at Bangalore, India. All this took place in the Uk's Bangalore Call Center. When Hsbc came to know one of its female employees was security-compromised, that is she was running...
[October 20, 2006, 12:43]
HSBC Bangalore suffers £233,000 security breach
News A security breach at HSBC's offshore data-processing unit in Bangalore has led to £233,000 being stolen from the accounts of a small number of UK customers. A spokesman for HSBC told ZDNet UK’s sister site, silicon.com: "Our internal security team...
[June 28, 2006, 11:55]
HSBC Bangalore suffers £233,000 security breach
Talkback HSBC's World-Class Service a fact/ joke Managers at the same place have caused a loss of millions of pounds. This is put under wraps and downplayed. At Hsbc they call it World-Class Service! A big hullabaloo is being made about the fraudsters 233...
[September 16, 2006, 12:25]
HSBC Bangalore suffers £233,000 security breach
Talkback Big talk by Hsbc, Cheapo India Hsbc same as any cheap company. Snatch credit forget to block the security holes. How can they penalise an employee for not revealing details to a manager. Agree with you vicky, i got quite a shock.
[October 3, 2006, 6:46]
HSBC Bangalore suffers £233,000 security breach
Talkback Most Indian managers are useless, not new. Always pushing their peopleof their state, their language speaking or of their caste at the cost of real performers. Not just Hsbc even at most places they do not select good guys but 2nd rate as they can...
[September 19, 2006, 11:31]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog It's started," said my Californian friend as she IM'd me this linkfrom the Bangalore Craigslist. Would it be worth moving to Bangalore to forestall the inevitable? The other way to look at it is as an opportunity, much like the mythical software...
[March 11, 2005, 17:10]
Computers and Camel Meat
Blog I’m nearing the end of my days here in Bangalore India with Yahoo and managed to get an afternoon off to walk the streets and see the ‘other side’ of Bangalore. Inevitably, there is the glossy side of India’s tech-capital where wireless broadband...
[October 8, 2007, 21:06]
AOL quietly shifts staffing to India
News America Online is quietly laying the groundwork to hire software engineers in Bangalore, India -- a decision that is sparking some pointed criticism but also is becoming de rigueur among technology companies.
[December 23, 2003, 7:35]
Job ads suggest Netscape regeneration
Talkback AOL has been off-shoring to Bangalore, India for a while. I was in Bangalore in late 2002 and I met someone from the AOL Bangalore office even then. I have a word of caution for companies thinking of off-shoring to Bangalore.
[May 2, 2004, 1:05]
SAP opens research labs in China and India
News German business-software giant SAP has officially opened research and development centres in Shanghai, China and Bangalore, India, bringing the total number of such labs worldwide to eight. The new SAP Labs facility in Bangalore is the largest for...
[December 12, 2003, 14:15]
PeopleSoft triples Indian workforce
News PeopleSoft intends to add 1,000 workers to its staff in Bangalore, India, by the end of the year, accelerating the software maker's plan to tap the country's low-cost labour force. The company, which discussed the Bangalore expansion on Tuesday, is...
[February 18, 2004, 10:20]
Dell admits Indian mistake
Talkback DELL LAP TOP I BOUGHT BY E-MARKETING CALLING BANGALORE CENTRE. I GOT THE LAP TOP WHEN I HAVE A QUESTION AND I E-MAIL TO THE GENTLEMAN IN BANGALORE OFFICE WHO ASSURED ME TO FEEL FREE FOR ANY ASSISTANCE DOESN'T REPLY ANY E-MAIL.
[September 7, 2006, 22:59]
HSBC fights phishing with authentication token
Talkback Another possible fraud by female, never investigated by Hsbc seniors at Bangalore, India. All this took place in the Uk's Bangalore Call Center. When Hsbc came to know one of its female employees was security-compromised, that is she was running...
[October 20, 2006, 12:46]
HP faces negligence charge after staff death
News HP could face legal action over the rape and murder of one of its Bangalore-based IT staff by a driver of a taxi firm used by the IT giant. Prathibha Srikanth Murthy, a 24-year-old technical support worker at HP's global delivery contact centre in...
[January 9, 2006, 8:35]
Dell admits Indian mistake
Talkback Once I wanted to buy a PC and called them from my Bangalore office [there are many Dell offices around where my office is situated in Bangalore]. I am an Indian and still would say that Dell sucks. I was perhaps connected to one of those.
[June 23, 2006, 12:24]
Western economies warned of 'serious' skills crisis
News Azim Premji, chairman of Bangalore-based Wipro, said poor maths education from primary school onwards is one of the fundamental causes of the shortage of science and engineering graduates in Western countries.
[March 19, 2008, 7:56]
Smashing India's language barriers
News There's no further chance of growth unless that particular problem is solved, the Bangalore team claims. According to a team of HP engineers from Bangalore, over to meet UK journalists in Bristol as part of the celebrations around HP Labs' 40th...
[May 12, 2006, 16:50]
European chipmaker strengthens Indian presence
News The company also expects to hire as many as 100 designers for a new design centre in Bangalore. Texas Instruments was the first to open operations in Bangalore, followed by Motorola, Intel, Cadence Design Systems and several others.
[February 20, 2004, 10:40]
