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MediaPost Classifieds for Sunday, January 31, 2010

I used to think that an investment bank was a place where I could somehow deposit my investments, and maybe even earn a little interest. Then I learned that these banks really negotiate investments and collect fees on the transactions, sort of like commercial banks do with loans to businesses. None really provide funds for early-stage startups. Many investment banks even call themselves “boutiques.” As near as I can tell these are smaller ones, who don’t sell clothes, but typically sell companies and securities in a particular set of industries. All investment banks have to be staffed by licensed specialists, called broker-dealers. Very confusing. None of these investment banks offer traditional banking services, as you would expect from one of the following: Retail banks Commercial banks Credit unions Savings and loans As startup founders, you first need to deal with one of these banks, probably a commercial bank. Commercial banking is also known as business banking. That would be almost any bank that provides checking accounts, savings accounts, and money market accounts to businesses, and also makes loans to businesses

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Use Investment Banks for Exit, not Startup

What are customers intending to do this year with their outsourcing strategies? When when we spoke to 1055 customers, intermediaries and vendors across the global sourcing industry earlier this month, they gave us the real picture

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The Industry Speaks, Part III: Demand for outsourcing is reaching new heights, but will vendors disappoint?

Future Electronics and Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. (TAEC) Sign an Americas Distribution Agreement Pointe-Claire, Canada , December 12 — Future Electronics and Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. (TAEC) announced today that both companies have signed an agreement for distribution of Toshiba display products in the United States, Canada and Mexico. Under the terms of this agreement, Future Electronics will distribute Toshiba’s full line of TFT Liquid Crystal Displays (LCDs). “We’re confident that this new relationship will add significant value to our current display offering,” said Bruce Jones, executive vice president of Worldwide Corporate Marketing. “Many of our customers’ applications require a ruggedized LCD with long life, which Toshiba can provide for them.” Future’s strong application engineering, marketing, integration capabilities and supply chain management provides Toshiba with the opportunity to offer the highest level of service to customers across the territory

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Toshiba Electronic Components Sign Future Electronics Agreement

© Asthma HelperIn a recent article published on the Shared Services and Outsourcing Network, Susir Kumar and Suresh Ramani of Intelenet were asked about the trends that they are seeing in the BPO industry. Mssrs. Kumar and Ramani reported that they were seeking a number of significant changes in both the pace and manner of deal structure during the economic difficulties of 2009. These include a greater focus on near-term savings, more aggressive price negotiations, more “buy-outs” of entire departments and they are being …

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BPO Trends

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a critical part of any internet marketing strategy. Although there are significant benefits to be had from properly executed SEO, improper SEO tactics can result in serious penalties that will send your website tumbling down the search results. In this article we will briefly touch on 4 things an SEO practitioner can do to avoid these penalties, and ensure their website sees unobstructed growth towards the top of search results.

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4 Ways to Avoid SEO Penalties

This week’s quick fire SEO tips session covers how to link your website internally to make sure your high page rank pages let the page rank flow through to your deep pages through the use of sitemaps. That’s right people; sitemaps is a plural which means more than one! You wouldn’t believe the number of new websites that are out there without both an XML and HTML sitemap.

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SEO Sitemap

If you want to CREATE something extraordinary, you’re going to need some of the spirit that Dean Schambach exudes. When the true force of creativity is burning bright in every cell of your body, all the rest will follow. Hats off to David McDonald , Woodstock filmmaker, for this pearl of brilliance

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Get Deeply In Touch With the Passion to Create!

Delhi-based e-learning solutions provider Educomp Solutions plans to acquire StudyPlaces.com, which is owned by Zaptive Internet Services. Under the deal, Educomp will buy the domain name and other existing contracts of Zaptive and will allot equity shares on a preferential basis of up to $1.5 million in exchange. StudyPlaces helps students find, compare, evaluate and then select the right course, institute and country for their further study. In January 2008, StudyPlaces.com raised $3 million from venture capital firms Kleiner Perkins, Caufield and Byers (KPCB), Ram Shriram’s Sherpalo Ventures and the internet company Info Edge India (the Naukri.com group), with each entity investing $1 million in the company.

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BTS Investment Advisors, a Zurich-headquartered private equity firm that specialises in investments in India, is reportedly readying the launch of a new $150m fund. The firm BTS is looking to inaugurate the fund before April 2010, and aims to reach the $150m mark within a year. The fund will target companies in the wind, biomass, water and energy equipment fields in India. Additional funds managed by the firm include a $22m Swiss technology fund and a $75m India-targeted private equity fund. Notable investors in the firm’s funds include Asian and European governments and the Asian Development Bank.

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India-focused PE firm BTS Investment Advisors to launch $150m green fund

mediate Capital Group (ICG) on Friday bought a 47% stake in legal process outsourcing firm CPA Global, a Channel Island-based firm with over half of its 1,500 employees working out of Gurgaon and Noida in the national capital terrirory. A privately held firm, CPA Global is one of the largest legal services outsourcers in the world with over a billion dollars in revenue

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Intermediate Capital buys 47% in LPO firm CPA Global for 440 million pound

With the disinvestment of DPSC, an erstwhile subsidiary of Andrew Yule being complete, the SREI-led consortium, the new owner of the company with a 57.17 per cent stake, on Friday reconstituted the board. Orbis Power Ventures, the Special Purpose Vehicle floated by Srei to acquire DPSC, will now make an open offer for 20 per cent additional stake in DPSC on Saturday itself, Hemant Kanoria, Chairman-cum-Managing Director, Srei told Financial Chronicle. Kanoria said that they had paid the entire amount of Rs 171.85 crore to Andrew Yule, LIC and United India Insurance, who had offloaded their stakes in the company.

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Srei-led consortium buys 57% in DPSC

Alok Industries, a Mumbai-based vertically integrated textile player, has roped in Asia Bridge as a private equity player for its retail subsidiary – Alok H&A. The deal size is of Rs 45 crore. Alok H&A is engaged in the cash and carry business of apparels and home textiles across the country with its 150 stores at present. The company has drawn up a massive expansion plan with a view to achieve a pan-India footprint and is eyeing 1,000 stores in the next three years. The company, by the end of the current financial year, will take the number of stores to 250. And in FY11, the textile major is aiming to add another 250.

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Asia Bridge invests in Alok’s retail subsidiary

If you’re new to the SEO game you’ll find that there’s a whole lot of information that you need to know. More importantly you’ll find there’s a lot of misinformation going around and it’s easy to fall for the lies. So how do you sort the good tips from bad?

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Search Engine Optimisation Myths – Top Five Dirty Lies

Today, having a website is not the end of the day for all the businesses. If it had been that easy, businesses would have simply invested in a website and then sat at their homes expecting the clients to call them when they just look at the website.

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Can Any Business Do Without Search Engine Optimization?

In today’s world, everything is dominated by internet. This has a major impact on the way sales are made. Before the introduction of internet, companies could really do without a website. All the sales were made in shops earlier, but today online stores rule the roost. So, the best thing is to opt for a website if you want sales to happen on a large scale.

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Know That Without Search Engine Optimization, Having a Website is Not Fruitful

SEO is not set and forget, and sometimes each web page needs to be massaged to get it to rank, well just imagine the cost if you were charged every time changes to content and coding were recommended. Of course this is the point of this exercise, to get as much revenue out of you as possible and given that most of the small business owners I’ve done the audits for have no idea about web site design or SEO, you are easy pickings.

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Small Business Web Sites and SEO

It is not enough these days just to build a website. You have to build a website that people can find. Having a website that no one can find is like having a business card that just stays on your desk; it does little good.

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How to Get Your Website Ranked in the Top 10 on Google Searches For Free!

Almost all companies will find it difficult to survive if their customers do not find them quickly on the internet. Most people use sites like Google, Yahoo, or MSN to find what they want on the net, thus it is important for companies to ensure that their sites are displayed high in the lists generated by the search portals. The methods used to ensure that the websites are mentioned higher in lists are collectively referred to as search engine optimization.

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Why Professional SEO Services Are Required by Companies That Have Websites

In the passing tough year best remembered for crisis, loss of jobs, and overall uncertainty, the outsourcing industry has made many gloomy headlines in the news resources. Interesting enough to note that the end of the year brings forecasts for the IT community as optimistic as long not heard

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Outsourcing Potential 2010