Nearshore Journal

By Ketaki Gokhale

Aegis Ltd., an outsourcing unit of India’s Essar Group, will pursue acquisitions in the Middle East, Europe, Latin America and Africa during the next two years.
The company is targeting deals in the $50 million to $200 million range and intends to complete one each quarter, Managing Director Aparup Sengupta said in an interview [...]

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 [...]

BusinessWire – Capgemini, one of the world’s foremost providers of consulting, technology and outsourcing services, and Sonda Procwork, the Brazilian unit of Chilean IT systems integrator Sonda , today announced that Capgemini Brazil has acquired Sonda Procwork’s facility in Gaspar, in the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil and will now deliver BPO services to global [...]

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 [...]

Language Stars LLC, a provider of language instruction to the pre-school and elementary school market, has raised an undisclosed amount of private equity funding from Hispania Capital Partners.
PRESS RELEASE
Hispania Capital Partners (”HCP”), a middle-market private equity firm headquartered in Chicago, today announced that it has acquired an interest in Language Stars, LLC. Language Stars is [...]

WorkFlex Solutions LLC, a Cincinnati-based Web-based developer of software for managing call center staffing, has raised $1.5 million in VC funding led by CincyTech.
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WorkFlex Solutions LLC, a Cincinnati-based startup company that has created Web-based software for managing call center staffing, has closed a $1.5 million venture capital investment round led by CincyTech with an [...]