Nearshore Journal

This guest post comes courtesy of Tony Baer’s OnStrategies blog. Tony is a senior analyst at Ovum.
By Tony Baer
Thanks go out to Oracle on Feb. 8 for finally putting us out of our suspense. AmberPoint was one of a dwindling group of still-standing software independents delivering run-time governance of the for SOA environments.
It’s a smart [...]

by Poornima Gupta
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Privately held smart grid networking company Silver Spring Networks said on Tuesday it had raised $100 million in its latest round of financing and was in no hurry to test the public markets.
The Redwood City, California-based start-up, which has attracted investments from technology heavyweights such as Google Inc, is [...]

By Leena Rao / TechCrunch.com
This morning, professional social network LinkedIn announced that it is opening up its API for developers to build applications around the platform. While LinkedIn has partnered with Twitter, Microsoft, IBM, Research In Motion and others, this will be the first time startups can tap into the platform.
While LinkedIn is releasing 11 [...]

I want to create a high-end networking forum in India like the TED or WEF, says Jessie Paul on her startup journey.
Jessie Paul—writer, coffee plantation owner, active blogger and regular user of Linkedin and Twitter—will be another entrepreneur walking out of the portals of Wipro Technologies (where she is chief marketing officer) come January. With [...]

By Steven Burke
Apple (NSDQ:AAPL)’s App Store this week crossed a major milestone when the number of approved applications available for download passed the 100,000 mark.
In only 16 months, the App Store has far surpassed any and all competitors for the number, breadth and depth of consumer and professional-based applications for smartphones. And many of them [...]

By Ritsuko Ando
NEW YORK, Sept 29 (Reuters) – Accenture Plc (ACN.N) is expected to give an upbeat outlook on Thursday and highlight a recovery in its consulting and outsourcing business, which analysts say is strong enough to withstand competition from rivals bulking up through mergers.
Xerox Corp (XRX.N) on Monday announced a deal for outsourcing business [...]

Strengthens Oracle Enterprise Performance Management to Accelerate Financial Reporting for a Faster Close
Redwood Shores, Calif, September 29, 2009
News Facts
Oracle has agreed to acquire certain assets of HyperRoll, a leading provider of financial reporting acceleration solutions.
HyperRoll’s products help improve reporting performance, shrink the close cycle and improve visibility of financial data to line management.
The combined solution [...]