Deloitte, the company that provides audit, tax, consulting, and financial advisory services to public and private clients spanning multiple industries today said the global information technology and business process outsourcing market is approaching US$600 billion and is growing rapidly. According to them in today’s global economy, investments in outsourcing and offshoring initiatives have never been higher, or more critical to organizational success. To help companies address today’s significant outsourcing and offshoring risks and maximize the value of their outsourcing and offshoring strategy, Deloitte has published a new whitepaper titled, “The Risk Intelligent Approach to Outsourcing and Offshoring.”

Corporations are facing dramatically increasing risks as they rely more than ever on other parties and/or offshore entities for a growing number of business and information technology processes. The paper, the eighth in the Deloitte Risk Intelligence series, identifies several trends that have increased outsourcing and offshoring risks: Read more

Warner Bros. Motion Picture Imaging and Prime Focus have entered into a strategic alliance that will allow both companies to expand their abilities to offer their state of the art digital post production capabilities to filmmakers on a global scale. The agreement will provide filmmakers around the world with access to the expert talents and services both companies have been providing through their state of the art facilities. It also allows both companies to manage their workflows more efficiently between Warner Bros. MPI in Burbank, and Prime Focus’s facilities throughout multiple locations in India and London as well as in New York, Vancouver, Winnipeg and Los Angeles. Read more

Hughes India (HUGHES) has announced the signing of a contract with Comat Technologies to supply ten thousand broadband satellite terminals, together with its nationwide HughesNet satellite services and applications to be delivered at rural business centers across multiple states in India. Comat is the premier e-governance organization in India, having more than a decade of experience working with government, public, private and multi-lateral organizations, and Hughes has been the world leader in broadband satellite networks and services for over 20 years.

Speaking about the agreement with Hughes, Comat President Sriram Raghavan stated, “Having strong experience in delivering e-governance solutions and services in partnership with various states, Comat has established a unique blend of content and delivery that has allowed the concept of a community services center (CSC) to be become a reality. Together with Hughes, the company is now gearing up to deploy these CSC’s throughout India’s rural regions.” Read more

Hourly updates on what Indian users are looking for on Google

Google today announced the launch of Google Trends™ and Google Hot Trends™ reports on India Labs (labs.google.co.in), giving users a chance to find out on an hourly basis what India is searching for on the Google™ search engine. In December 2007, for the first time in India, we released a list of most popular searches called the Zeitgeist™ report. Hot Trends takes the Zeitgeist list to a whole new level, providing an automated hourly snapshot of what’s on our collective mind - from current events to daily crossword puzzle clues to the latest celebrity gossip. For each Hot Trends result, the associated Google News™ and Google web search results appear, providing greater context for each query.

For example, the #1 Hot Trends result on this morning at 10:30 was ‘india vs srilanka.’ The associated web results and associated news search results give you more context and insight into what people are searching for in connection with that term. The interest in this term has spiked due to the one day international cricket match being played in Brisbane. You can view results for other days by changing the date range on the top left hand corner of the Hot Trends page. As you can see, ‘india vs sri lanka’ has a Hot Trend status of ‘Volcanic’ which is the hottest its popularity can get. The other Hot Trend statuses are Volcanic, On Fire, Spicy, Medium and Mild.

With Google Trends, users can view search patterns and interest in their favorite topics. They can enter up to five topics and see how often they’ve been searched for on Google over time and even which cities and states have people searching for them the most. Trends also adds context to the results by showing you how frequently the topics you’re looking for has appeared in Google News stories. For example, Zeitgeist had Mahatma Gandhi as our #1 searched for political leader and you can see on Trends that the phrase ‘Mahatma Gandhi’ sees its largest spike in search traffic every year on October 2, Gandhi Jayanthi.

Want to know what India was searching for on the 58th anniversary of the day it adopted the Constitution of India and became a republic? Try out Hot Trends and Trends at labs.google.co.in for insight into India’s mind.

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