Satyam Fraud – Is Nasscom Sleeping?

Ever since our dear friend Dewang Mehta passed away in Australia many summers ago, Nasscom, the apex association of the Indian IT-BPO companies, has been going downhill. Dewang’s successors including the present fella heading the organization Som Mittal are just not up to snuff. After the disclosure today of massive fraud at Satyam, the Rip […]

Satyam Fraud – The Perils of Outsourcing

The massive accounting fraud at Indian IT services provider Satyam Computer demonstrates the perils to U.S. and European companies of outsourcing. Over the last two decades, American and European firms like GE, Goldman Sachs, Siemens, Morgan Stanley and countless others have rushed heedlessly to outsource their IT work to Indian companies to reduce their costs. […]

Are Infosys, Wipro & Mindtree Crooks Too?

The short answer is No. While there will definitely be some minor irregularities here and there, we think it unlikely that the top management of Infosys, Wipro and Mindtree would stoop to the level of Satyam crooks like B.Ramalinga Raju who committed massive fraud and cooked up the books for several years. We are familiar […]

End of the Road for Satyam Computer

Unless Lord Balaji of Tirupati decides to perform one of his miracle acts, it seems like the end of the road of Indian IT services provider  Satyam Computer Services, at least in its present form. The Satyam brand is tarnished beyond recovery. The Satyam name is mud today after disclosures of massive fraud at the […]