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The Outsourcing Upstarts
In 2000, when employment-screening service provider HireRight was looking for a low-cost locale for software development, the Irvine (Calif.) company turned to an unlikely destination: Estonia. The Ba...
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Intel to join '$100 laptop' project
BOSTON, Massachusetts (AP) -- The nonprofit that aims to seed the developing world with inexpensive laptop computers for schoolchildren has made peace with Intel Corp., the project's most powerful riv...
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Europe's Tech Startup Boom
Two-year-old London-based startup Garlik has the whiff of Silicon Valley about it. Its co-founders, Tom Ilube and Mike Harris, sold their first Internet-based company for an estimated $1 billion to Ci...
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Africa’s cheetah generation: innovation and entreneurship
Something is happening in Africa and you won’t read it in the major news outlets. While the media focused on the G-8 Summit in Germany on what the G-8 should do for Africa, a momentous conference w...
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International Seminar for IT and BPO firms end in Accra
The 2007 Xalles international marketing seminar (IMS) ended successfully on Wednesday, March 14 at the Golden Tulip Hotel. The event was designed to provide Ghanaian companies with practical tools and...
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March 14: Xalles International Seminar for IT & BPO Firms
The Ghana @ 50 Secretariat, in collaboration with GCG, the Washington-based Xalles Limited and the Ghana Multimedia Incubator Center, will present the 1st International Seminar for Information Technol...
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Offshore Outsourcing blossoming in Ghana
Accra (Greater Accra), February 5, 2007 – The Ministry of Communications with the support of the World Bank carried out a study last year to establish Ghana's idealness for Business Process Outsourcin...
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Ghana Ranked Among Best Reforming Economies
The World Bank has ranked Ghana as the first in Africa and the ninth in the world among economies that have implemented massive reforms to improve on the ease of doing business. Mr. Michael Klein, ...
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TANCon2006, Palo Alto, California ~ Fostering African Entrepreneurship
The historic summit in California will feature a networking reception on Saturday night. The African Network (TAN) Conference on Technology & Entrepreneurship is the world's sole event of its kind ...
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Ghana Telecom to be privatised
The Cabinet has given the approval for the privatisation of Ghana Telecom. In furtherance of this, a transactional adviser is to be appointed to set the process in motion.Professor Mike Oquaye, Co...
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$40m for Implementation of ICT Program
Accra, Aug. 3, GNA - The World Bank Group today approved 40 million dollars loan to support the Government of Ghana to implement selected components of the its Information and Communication Technologi...
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Ghana -Best Place To Do Business in West Africa
Ghana is the number one location for doing business in the ECOWAS sub-region, according to a new World Bank survey, and the 9th best in Africa. Meanwhile, business confidence in Ghana is high, acco...
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Making Several Stops at Shops Online, but Paying All at Google
GOOGLE has trained millions of people to head first to the Web to find information. Can it now train consumers to buy? Late last month, Google Inc. introduced Google Checkout, a service that stores...
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Moving IT infrastructure labor offshore
Half of the people in corporate IT departments manage and support infrastructure rather than develop and maintain applications, yet infrastructure represents only a tiny percentage of the IT labor off...
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Web 2.0 Has Corporate America Spinning
Silicon Valley loves its buzzwords, and there's none more popular today than Web 2.0. Unless you're a diehard techie, though, good luck figuring out what it means. Web 2.0 technologies bear strange na...
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Bill Gates to Cede Software Reins in Era Change
REDMOND, Wash., June 15 — Three decades after he started Microsoft with the dream of placing a personal computer in every home and business, Bill Gates said Thursday that he would leave his day-to-day...
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Taking offshoring beyond labor cost savings
Most global executives know by now that offshoring can deliver more than just labor cost savings. A good offshore strategy should also generate new revenues, increase capital productivity, and manage ...
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Microsoft to launch Windows XP in Africa
ABUJA, Nigeria --Microsoft Corp. is targeting Africa with a lower-priced version of the Windows operating system that will work on cheaper machines and have Africa-themed screensavers and background w...
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Offshore Outsourcing Trend Might Be Heading For Africa
Big Western companies are all into outsourcing very specific aspects of their activities abroad and Africa might become a new area of emerging interest. The business logic of the deals is obvious. Wes...
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West Africa Attracts Influx of Chinese Entrepreneurs
While Chinese officials are making headlines by signing oil deals and promising to fund new stadiums and buildings across West Africa, ordinary Chinese are also hard at work in the region. VOA's Nico ...
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Vonage on the line
Investors who want a slice of Vonage Holdings get their chance this week. Vonage, a pioneer of Internet-based phone services, is expected to set the price for its initial public offering on May 23. Ac...
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The Reverse Brain Drain For the first time in its history, the U.S. faces the prospect of a reverse brain drain. New research by my team at the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke University shows that more than 1 million highly skilled professionals such as engineers, scientists, doctors, researche...
