Nearshore Journal

Marcelo Marzola, the 33-year-old co-founder of Predicta.net, is a perfect example of how hot Brazil’s $1.6 trillion economy has become — and why its entrepreneurs are now getting their phone calls returned by venture capitalists after a decade of “You’re from where?”
Marzola was invited to present his company’s free online behavioral-targeting tool, BTBuckets, at the [...]

By Rebecca Kutzer-Rice
HP has signed a $200 million federal contract to provide application support and maintenance services for Medicare Part B claims processing, which covers outpatient expenses.
Hewlett-Packard is expanding its federal government and health care IT services portfolio after signing a new, $200 million contract with the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to [...]

By Kirtika Suneja / New Delhi
Delhi-based information technology (IT) company HCL Technologies expects to sign around four deals in the retail and consumer packaged goods (CPG) space across geographies this year. The deals are likely to be signed in the Middle East, Australia, South Africa and South America.
“In retail and CPG, we are seeing growth [...]

BANGALORE: On his first visit to India as the British prime minister, Conservative leader David Cameron allayed fears of any curbs on the IT outsourcing by the country’s government departments, even as he asked Indian companies to create more jobs in the UK.
Mr Cameron, who will meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in Delhi on Thursday, [...]

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Spending on logistics across Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Mexico and the United States will increase by $106 billion by 2012, as the size of outsourced share of this expenditure grows by 32%, according to research compiled by business information provider Analytiqa.
While the United States dominates the region’s logistics activity, it is consistently outperformed, in terms of [...]

By Doug Woodburn

ARs agree to draw on each other’s strengths through formal partnership.
Nick King: ACS sees this as a way of broadening its portfolio
IBM partners Apex and Affiliated Computer Services (ACS) have formed a strategic alliance aimed at broadening each firm’s expertise.
Nick King, chairman of Apex, told CRN the tie-up would allow ACS to extend [...]