Nearshore Journal

Darby Overseas Investments, the PE arm of Franklin Templeton Investments,said that its Darby Technology Ventures Fund sold Atvi to Euronet Worldwide. Ativi is a Brazilian prepaid payments processor. Financial terms were not announced.
PRESS RELEASE
Darby Overseas Investments, Ltd. (”Darby”), the private equity arm of Franklin Templeton Investments, announced that its Darby Technology Ventures Fund (”DTV”) sold [...]

HOUSTON, Sep 01, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) — EquaTerra, a global business advisory firm, today announced it has appointed Rick Bertheaud to lead its Finance and Accounting (F&A) Advisory practice, and Sarah Pfaff to lead its Procurement and Supply Chain Advisory group.
Bertheaud has more than 25 years of expertise in process redesign, organization restructuring and change [...]

AT&T (NYSE: T) has put its sale of its domestic Japanese outsourcing services operations to Internet Initiative Japan Inc. (IIJI) (Nasdaq: IIJI) to bed.
The deal, which was originally announced in June, calls for AT&T to transfer about 1,600 domestic Japanese business customers and about 245 customer support employees to IIJI.
Regardless of the sale, AT&T plans [...]

When Dell launched its first smartphone in the U.S. on August 24, early product reviews were dismal. Compared with the slew of other nifty new smartphones available today, critics groused that the only thing remarkable about the phone — called the Aero — was its $99 price tag. They have deemed its hardware mediocre, its [...]

BY MAX COLCHESTER AND RUTH BENDER
PARIS—Capgemini SA said Thursday it has reached an agreement to buy a majority stake in Brazilian information-technology business CPM Braxis, as the French IT consultancy looks to expand its presence in emerging markets.
Capgemini said in a statement that it will spend €233 million ($298.3 million) to acquire a 55% stake [...]

Paul DeNicola of The Conference Board Named to Directorship 100
For Second Consecutive Year
NEW YORK, Sept. 2, 2010…Paul DeNicola, Director of The Conference Board Governance Center and Directors’ Institute, has been named to the Directorship 100, a list of the most influential individuals in corporate governance, for the second year in a row.
Published by Directorship magazine [...]

Sunny Gupta thinks he has discovered an entirely new business category, and he’s apparently having little trouble making his case to customers — or investors.
Today, his Bellevue, Wash.-based SaaS startup, Apptio, announced that it has raised a $16.5 million round of funding — its third in just three years — bringing the company’s total funding [...]

PROPERTY GIANT Ayala Land, Inc. plans to hike office spaces for business process outsourcing (BPO) firms in the next few years given renewed demand, its top executive said.
More office spaces will be available in the next few years as Ayala Land taps provinces for further expansion. “An example is our BPO building in Iloilo and [...]

By James Hall, Retail Editor
Alliance Boots, the pharmaceutical retailer and wholesaler, is to offload about £300m of retirement fund liabilities to Pension Corporation, a specialist buyout vehicle.
The deal will see Pension Corporation assume the management of the old Alliance Unichem defined-benefit pension scheme. Alliance Unichem merged with Boots to form Alliance Boots in 2006.
The scheme [...]

By Kathrin Hille in Beijing
Published: August 31 2010 09:25 | Last updated: September 1 2010 00:19
NEC has agreed to set up a joint venture with Neusoft, China’s largest IT outsourcing provider, to offer cloud computing services in the country, the Japanese electronics company’s first move to offer such services outside its home market.
The venture reflects [...]