Recession
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World's outsourcing revenue worth $373B
News Global market will grow 14.4 percent by year-end, led by top performers India, China and the Philippines, which will account for 77.6 percent of total revenue.
Tags: IT outsourcing, Outsourcing, Outsourcing, IT Services, India, Philippines, research company, recession, financial, China
Singapore CIOs optimistic of an upturn
News IT heads in Singapore expect market conditions to be more favorable for growth over the next six months, Frost & Sullivan survey finds.
Tags: Personal development, Business Strategies & Functions, SMB, Best strategies, IT-spending, Survey, Singapore, CIO, Frost & Sullivan, recession
Technology bosses not afraid of a downturn
News Ninety-one percent of technology CEOs in a survey say they expect that their sales figures for 2009 will equal or even improve over that of this year.
Tags: Software, Hardware, Internet, Sector, Cobalt Networks, Telecommunications, payment, Silicon.com, CEO, recession
A recessionary sense of deja vu
Blogs Depending on which camps you speak to, the U.S. credit meltdown could either spell bad news for IT wages or have little ...
Schmidt: Worst of recession over; Google hiring ahead
News Google CEO Eric Schmidt shares that worst of the recession is behind us and Google feels "confident about investing heavily in our future".
Tags: Internet advertising, Google Android, Google Inc., advertisement, revenue, mobile, Google Android, Investment, Wall Street, net income
Recession can't stop Japan's online shoppers
News Rise in number of stay-at-home shoppers in Japan means the online shopping industry outstrips sales at department stores and convenience stores.
Tags: E-commerce, High-speed Internet, Sales, Japan, mail-order, recession, Tokyo, E-commerce
Look what sentiments can do to an economy!
Blogs Sentiments undoubtedly play an important role in an economy. In recent times, we have seen how sentiments can swing cons...
Vodafone loses 160K UK customers in a quarter
News Intense competition and economic pressures' have hit revenues at Vodafone UK, although the operator is making more money out of mobile Internet usage.
Tags: Handhelds, Mobile/Wireless, Data services, Mobile Internet, mobile virtual network operator, recession, financial, revenue, Vodafone Group Plc., agreement
Could this be the most critical budget for India?
Blogs For business journalists in India, budget time is excitement time. It's like sports journos covering the Olympics. As a ...
Fujitsu staff could strike over pensions, pay
News U.K. union is balloting members to test the temperature for industrial action over the proposed closure of the company's final salary pension scheme.
Tags: Notebooks and tablets, Officer, information technology worker, Worker, recession, Fujitsu Ltd., financial service, Notebooks and tablets
Recession making techies do more unpaid overtime
News One in three techies is put in the equivalent of 34 days of unpaid overtime last year, two days more than in 2007.
Tags: Workplace, Human resources, Overtime, IT Professional, U.K. company, TUC, Worker, recession, job, secretary
Will recession show tenacity of Gen Y?
Blogs They sure don't make 'em like they used to. That's something I often say when my friends and I--people in our mid-30...
Worst of times is the best of times for IBM?
News commentary CEO Sam Palmisano says that the company is ready to "go on offense" even as the sagging global economy continues to crimp IT spending.
Tags: Leadership, Cloud computing, IBM Corp., Samuel J. Palmisano, Stock, Cloud computing, recession, marketing, shareholder, U.S.
Gartner sees boom for virtualization in slump
News While virtualization software will take a knock from the downturn in Europe, Middle East and Africa, the market should bounce back, research firm predicts.
Tags: Virtualization, Virtual Desktop, EMEA, Gartner Inc., Hypervisor, Server, Germany, recession, U.K., revenue
Jobless techies turning to crime
News The credit crunch will drive impoverished techies and IT workers to sell corporate data and use crimeware, forensic experts have warned.
Tags: Hacking, Spam and phishing, Network security, Business security, Phishing, Security, Finjan Software Inc., Fraud, PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, information technology worker
