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Bahamas privatisation attracts top flight interest

Bahamas privatisation attracts top flight interest

The Bahamas is edging towards opening up its telecommunications sector, with the government’s plans to sell off a controlling stake in state-owned Bahamas Telecommunications Company (BTC) having taken another step forward in late November.
Having announced in January that it was opening a tender to sell off a minimum 51% stake in [...]

Cognizant looks to LatAm for big growth

Cognizant looks to LatAm for big growth

As Latin American economies begin to bounce out of recession, business services firm Cognizant is taking action & forecasting up to 5% of global revenues from this growth market.
Although LatAm accounts for less than 1% of current global sales, Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH), is looking for the region to contribute up to 5% of total [...]

HP expands ProCurveOne operations into LatAm

HP expands ProCurveOne operations into LatAm

Hewlett-Packard has announced that it will be expanding it’s sales operations for networking division ProCurve from Mexico into the rest of Latin America of its networking division, ProCurve, beyond Mexico. ProCurve products & services will now be available in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Peru, Venezuela & Costa Rica.
“We know we will be using [...]

Strong VAS revenues offset by weak dollar for Millicom

Strong VAS revenues offset by weak dollar for Millicom

Emerging Markets focussed telecom operator Millicom International (Nasdaq:MICC) has  posted a 12% decrease in net profits of US$143mn in the third quarter of 2009 compared to US$161mn in the same quarter a year ago, the company said in a statement.
Overall revenues were up 7% to US$856mn compared to US$800mn a year ago. However, top line [...]

Emerging markets: Is the cloud truly global?

Emerging markets: Is the cloud truly global?

As we evolve to a hybrid of internal and external IT Services, companies in developed markets have invested significantly on infrastructure, so they are not rushing to outsource operations.

Emerging markets have lower data center investments…Are they more fit to consume cloud services? Can we use the same tactics to reach them?
Over the last 18 [...]

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