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Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Internet Search Engine Firm Moves to Redlands

SEO Services, an Internet search engine firm, has moved to Redlands from Orange County.

The business relocated to Redlands from Laguna Beach at the beginning of May.

President Kevin Kantola said the Inland Empire "has barely any search engine optimization businesses. It was a good idea to get into the (market)."

Kantola founded SEO Services four years ago. He has been in the business for 10 years and has a few part-time employees.

"If you do Google searches (for search engine firms), almost nothing comes up for San Bernardino, Riverside," he said.

SEO Services does keyword research and analysis, Web site usability analysis, page optimization, link-building and results tracking.

Kantola said the company's aim is to get clients Web sites that are "obscured in Google ... to the top, and increase traffic from local people."

The company said it gets "organic results in the search engines, which is the left side of results pages where 90 percent of visitors search, not the paid or sponsored area of the search engine results pages."

The company said nationwide customers will get faster phone and e-mail responses because of the move.

For the past four years, SEO Services has "gained top search engine rankings for 99 percent of customers' Web sites," the company said in a news release.

SEO Services is at 610 The Terrace, Suite 2, near Colton Avenue and Orange Street, Redlands.

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Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Red Hat, SAS among top tech companies

Red Hat and SAS are two of the 30 most powerful technology companies in the world, according to a report released Tuesday by the Aberdeen Group.

Several other companies with large operations in the Raleigh-Durham area also made the list of the "Top 100 Most powerful Technology Companies," which was compiled based on more than 2.5 million interviews in 550,000 locations over the past five years, according to Boston-based Aberdeen. Survey respondents were asked to identify the top three technology companies that had the most power on their business performance over the course of the past year.

Red Hat (NYSE RHT) is No. 21 in the rankings. The Raleigh-based company is the world's largest provider of software and services for the Linux computer operating system. Its version of Linux for servers is among the most popular server operating systems in the world.

Cary-based SAS, the world's largest confidentially detained software company, holds the No. 30 ranking, highest among providers of business aptitude software, which helps companies analyze and make better use of large amounts of data.

Among the other companies with a Triangle presence that made the list are:

# No. 4 IBM, which employs 11,000 people in Research Triangle Park.
# No. 5 Cisco, which has 4,500 employees in RTP and is planning to invest $23 million in its campus there.
# No. 15 AT&T, which has about 1,400 Triangle employees and is planning to invest $80 million into its North Carolina wireless network.
# No. 19 Nortel, which employs about 2,300 in RTP
# No. 26 Sony-Ericsson, which has 750 employees in RTP
# No. 36 EDS, which has about 450 Triangle employees and has agreed to be bought for $13.9 billion by Hewlett-Packard, which is No. 6 on the Aberdeen list
# No. 57 NetApp, which recently changed its name from Network Appliance and is adding 646 new jobs to an RTP operation that already employs 600
# No. 77 ABB, which has about 360 Triangle employees.

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Thursday, May 8, 2008

21 Indian cos among top 100 BPOs

Twenty-one Indian firms, including Infosys and Tata Consultancy Services, are among the top 100 outsourcing companies in the world.

According to the study - '2008 Global Outsourcing 100' - compiled by the International Association of Outsourcing Professionals five Indian firms aspect among the top ten -- Infosys (3rd), TCS (6th), Wipro (7th), Genpact (9th) and Tech Mahindra (10th) in the top 10.

Other Indian companies in the list are HCL Technology (11th) Mastek (16th), WNS Global Services (19th), Hexaware (22nd), ExlService (26th), 24/7 Customer (28th), Cambridge (36th), ITC Infotech (40th), KPIT Cummins (42nd), Patni (46nd), Zensar (53rd), MindTree (54th), Mphasis (56th), Aditya Birla Minacs (62nd), FirstSource Solutions (73rd) and Cross-Tab (78th).

According to IAOP, the key power of Wipro and TCS is their 'employee management' while 'executive leadership' is cited as the strong point of Infosys and Genpact.

To know more of these Indian IT companies, read on...

Infosys (Rank 3)

The Bangalore-headquartered information technology major is one of India's largest IT companies, with nine development centres in the country and over 30 offices worldwide.

Infosys employs over 88,000 professionals.

Infosys Technologies Limited was founded on July 2, 1981 in Pune by N R Narayana Murthy and six others: Nandan Nilekani, N S Raghavan, Kris Gopalakrishnan, S D Shibulal, K Dinesh and Ashok Arora.

Raghavan was officially the company's first employee.

Murthy started the company by borrowing Rs 10,000 from his wife Sudha Murthy. The company was incorporated as 'Infosys Consultants Pvt Ltd', with Raghavan's house in Matunga, north-central Mumbai as the registered office.

Infosys announced a consolidated net profit of Rs 4,659 crore (Rs 46.59 billion) for the year ended March 31, a 20.82 per cent increase over 2008.

TCS (Rank 6)

Tata Consultancy Services Limited is one of the world's largest providers of information technology and business process outsourcing services. As of 2008, it is Asia's largest information technology firm and has the largest number of employees among Indian IT companies with strength of over 110,000 employees in 47 countries.

It began as the Tata Computer Centre, in 1968, providing computer services to other Tata group companies. Things changed when Fakir Chand Kohl, joined the company as it's first general manager.

TCS' profit after tax for 2008-08 stood at Rs 5,026 crore ($1.25 billion); up 19.31% Y-on-Y.

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Monday, May 5, 2008

Most of world's top companies invest in China

Almost 480 of the Fortune 500 companies have invested in China during the past 30 years, Du Ying, deputy minister in charge of the National Development and Reform Commission said here on Monday.

From 1978 to 2007, China's total use of foreign investment exceeded 760 billion US dollars, the largest amount among developing countries and the second largest worldwide, said Du at a national economic conference detained here.

In 2007 without help, China's foreign direct investment reached 83.5 billion US dollars and outbound investment stand at 18.7 billion US dollars, both soaring from less than 20 million US dollars in 1978 when the country initiated the policy of reform and opening up to the outside world.

Meanwhile, the country's foreign operate also experienced a rapid growth, from 20.6 billion US dollars in 1978 to 2.17 trillion US dollars last year. "By using both the markets and resources from home and abroad, China has improved its international competitiveness remarkably," he said.

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Friday, May 2, 2008

"Power 10" ranking of top cleantech companies

1. Sharp Electronics - In solar, still the biggest, and still rising. Enough said.

2. Det Norske Veritas - DNV is a massive 150 year old risk management firm. Their auditors underpin roughly half of the carbon markets. In carbon, audit and verification is everything. I could not leave them off.

3. IBM (NYSE:IBM) - What IBM is doing in smart grid is very thrilling. They are part of a large proportion of the smart grid implementations that are in process, and a huge promoter of open standards. Smart grid is to electricity what fiber is to telecom. It underpins everything.

4. Applied Materials (NYSE:AMAT) - The future of photovoltaics lies in scaling thin film manufacturing process. Who better to do this than the dean of semiconductor capital equipment. I broke the story of Applied's entry to solar in the blogosphere in 2006, and if anything underestimated how hard they were pushing. The whisper mill has been whirring that the installations of their plants are not on track. Not only do I have faith they will get there, I think it is critical to the industry that they do.

5. Fuel Tech (NASDAQ:FTEK) - I wrote about them in 2007. The CEO John Norris is a long time friend and an excellent operator. Cleaning up coal is a huge business that needs to be done, and they do it well.

6. Fat Spaniel - Distributed power, solar included, is a ticking time bomb without independent monitoring. Fat Spaniel does it the best.

7. Smart Fuel Cells (XETRA:F3C.DE) - I wrote about them recently. I helped create a fuel cell business in 2002. This is the first fuel cell company in 5 years that has intrigued me. They actually ship product with solid gross margins. That is a start.

8. First Solar (NASDAQ:FSLR) - Lowest cost producer in the photovoltaic business. Guaranteed to make the list until dethroned.

9. Global Solar - I have been following this company for a long time. CIGS is very hard and has broken (or is currently breaking) hundreds of millions or billions of dollars worth of wannabes. This management team, led by Mike Gering, respects how hard it is. And since they have actually been running a pilot plant shipping product for 3 years, so we need to take note when they say they have cracked the manufacturing scale nut.

10. Schott - Long a major player in crystalline silicon photovoltaics, amorphous silicon photovoltaics and concentrated solar thermal, where they are one of the top manufacturers of solar thermal receivers. That balance is unique, and exciting. Neal Dikeman is a founding partner at Jane Capital Partners LLC, a boutique merchant bank advising strategic investors and startups in cleantech. He is Chairman of Cleantech.org, and a blogger for CNET's Greentech blog.

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