Youve heard of off-shoring. What about home-shoring? Thats a term some use to describe companies tapping U.S. workers to answer tech-support and customer-service calls -- from home... more »

With inflation coming down to single digit level of 8.98 per cent, CII chief K V Kamath on Sunday said key policy rates could be lowered to boost confidence of India Inc and spur growth... more »

Howard Gold offers tips on how to survive this stormy market... more »

Although invited to the global financial summit, Obama has opted to stay in Chicago and will not meet any of the leaders separately, the New York Times reported.. more »

India`s rupee fell against the dollar, snapping a six-day rally, as mounting evidence the global economy is headed for a recession prompted investors to shun riskier investments, including emerging-market assets.The same trend could be observed in banks who went on a buying spree for dollars causing the Indian currency to depreciate by 0.87%.. more »

It is apparent from the charts of Areva T.. more »

Regulators say as many as 1,800 publicly held institutions could apply for government investments, as the banking sector is reshaped by the $700 billion rescue plan. .. more »

RBI cuts CRR and repo ratesAshok LeylandPunj LloydAmbuja CementsWeekly Newsletter.. more »

Experts sought to make clear to advisers from the presidential campaigns that the next president needed to have a plan for Afghanistan before he took office on Jan. 20. .. more »

The big news out of John McCain's re-scheduled appearance on CBS's David Letterman Show tonight is that Sarah Palin is going to appear in person soon on NBC's "Saturday Night Live." The Alaska governor and Republican vice presidential candidate has singlehandedly revived the career of actress Tina Fey, an uncanny Palin look/act-alike and .. more »

Much has been made in recent weeks of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's network interviews with some in the media. John McCain called it "gotcha" journalism. Funny how Palin does this MSNBC network interview with Savannah Guthrie and gets caught doing something else. But no one points out this interview as proof of anything bad. Watch and judge .. more »

Stocks in Europe rally Monday after a week in which it lost more than 20%, as investors warm to a more coordinated fight from leading governments to tackle the credit crunch. .. more »

This may be good news for startups like SmagMug, MediaSilo and SlideShare who use the Amazon Simple Storage service for hosting content. Amazon has reduced the storage prices for S3 service though the cut will no effect on small customers who manage only a few gigabytes of data. Amazon currently charges 15¢ per GB of storage per month but .. more »

Ratan Tata blamed it on continuing agitation by Trinamool Congress leader Mamata Banerjee for its moving out of Singur .. more »

Windows/Mac/Linux: VLC 0.9.3, the bug-fixed, updated version of our favorite cross-platform, hardly-ever-fails media player, is available for download. New to this version are a revamped interface and reorganized menus, an improved playlist tool for more traditional audio-only file browsing and listening (and native playing of YouTube videos), .. more »

With numerous procedures required to close and open a new account, customers find it painful to switch bank accounts even if they are unhappy with their current banks service.. more »

Federal Bank is the states largest bank, with 600 branches, a net worth of Rs3,919.33 crore and a net profit of Rs368.05 crore in 2007-08 .. more »

State-run Oil and Natural Gas Corp on Thursday said it is looking for acquisition of oil and gas properties in Latin America, CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States) countries and West Coast Africa... more »

Reuters is reporting that Nokia will unveil it first touchscreen phone next week. Photos of the upcoming Nokia “Tube” aka 5800 XpressMusic have already been leaked on the web.... . .. more »

Back when Firefox 3's final release candidate dropped, we ran some tests to compare its page-loading, memory use, and technical timing to Internet Explorer 7, Opera, and Safari for Windows. Then Google Chrome arrived, so we pitted it against the betas for Firefox 3.1 and Internet Explorer 8, and shared the results. The tests were by and large the .. more »