Telstra Awards Accenture Five-Year Application Outsourcing Ca. Accenture has signed a five-year, multi-million-dollar application outsourcing contract with Telstra, Australia's largest telecommunications provider, to maintain Telstra's customer care and billing platform,..

Tata Consultancy Services to acquire Citigroup Global Services for $505 million. Mumbai : Tata Consultancy Services, India's leading IT services, business solutions and outsourcing firm, has agreed to acquire all of Citi's interest in Citigroup Global Services Limited, the India-based..

India Inc finalises $26 bn overseas mergers, acquisitions. India Inc has finalised overseas mergers and acquisitions worth $26 billion till September-end this year, notwithstanding a sluggish domestic economy and the global meltdown, according to a leading consultancy..

Apple's "Brick" manufacturing rumors - not so revolutionary? Rumors are buzzing that Apple has been working on a revolutionary manufacturing process involving lasers and waterjets and solid blocks of aluminum for the upcoming MacBooks.

Acer: Wea re comina at ya, Dell. And so to Budapest last month for Acera TMs annual global press conference. What did I learn? That Acer in recent years rose without trace to become easily the worlda TMs third biggest PC vendor.

QuEST global gets govt notification to lease out land at its precision engineering SEZ in Karnataka. Bangalore, October 13 : QuEST Global, a leading provider of outsourced engineering services and manufacturing, announced today that it has received the Government of India notification for its SEZ in Belgaum,..

Renegotiating an outsourcing contract. October 13, 2008, 10:01 AM - CIO - Sitting down with a vendor to renegotiate an existing outsourcing contract can be a challenging task.

FlightSafety International to expand Wichita facilities, add 250 jobs. FlightSafety International expects to add up to 250 additional jobs in Wichita and expand its five facilities in the city by at least 200,000 square feet.

Homeless people, college students get free rides to vote in advance of Nov. 4. Elizabeth Kozak, center, Ohio PIRG Campus Organizer, walks through the line of 58 Oberlin College students lined up to vote early yesterday at the Lorain County Board of Elections in Lorain.

Rewriting the joke. How many Princeton students does it take to screw in a light bulb? Two. One to mix the martinis, and one to call the electrician.

Meridian's Virtual Library Grows to 15,000 Titles Through Agreement With SkillSoft. CHANTILLY, VA, October 9 / MARKET WIRE/ -- Meridian Knowledge Solutions, LLC has entered into a non-exclusive relationship with e-learning provider SkillSoft that boosts the size of Meridian's online library to..

Capella Education Company Announces Third Quarter 2008 Earnings.. 6, 2008. A live conference call and Webcast discussing third quarter 2008 results is scheduled for the same day at 9:00 a.m. eastern time.

Swaggers turn to shudders a year after market high. Just a year ago, investors were swaggering as the stock market surged to an all-time high. Now, almost everyone on Wall Street and Main Street seems to be shuddering amid a frightening reversal of fortune that has erased $8.3 trillion in shareholder wealth in the past 366 days.

G7 pledges urgent, decisive action as markets reel. Finance chiefs of the world's major economies pledged on Friday to take decisive action and work together to stem the escalating financial crisis after another day of gut-wrenching drops on world markets.

Market ends mostly lower after wild session. The Dow and the S&P 500 dropped for an eighth session on Friday, as a dramatic late-day comeback stalled out to cap the worst week ever for the S&P amid more anxiety about the condition of credit markets and the threat of a global recession.

Stock traders: Its the ugliest market ever seen. "Theres nothing thats come anywhere near this.".

Stocks end worst week mixed after wild session. Wall Street capped one of its worst weeks ever with a wild session Friday that saw the Dow Jones industrials gyrate within a 1,000 point range before closing with a relatively mild loss and the Nasdaq composite index actually ending with a modest advance.

Toronto stocks swoon amid panic and commodities drop. The main index of the Toronto Stock Exchange tumbled almost 6 percent on Friday as the latest wave of panic swept through global equity markets, wiping billions of dollars more from investor portfolios and pushing commodity prices sharply lower.

Your Bank in Your Pocket. Property manager Joshua Rosenthal was in a car headed toward Miami Beach when he realized he needed to transfer a tenant's rent money to his company's account. No problem. The driver didn't even have to pull off the road. Rosenthal, owner of Bethesda property-management company CAPM, just fiddled..

Pay Less Tax on Your Funds. The nip of autumn is in the air, and that means it's time for many mutual fund companies to announce their capital-gains distributions. This has been a wretched year for the stock market, but because of the way funds work, you may still be on the hook for income taxes nextApril. Whether the market..