Traffic Driving Past Vidhana Soudha
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Bustling Bangalore Commercial Street
Bustling Bangalore Commercial Street
Reflecting the increased spending power of Indians, including those recently returned from abroad, Commercial Street in Bangalore is awash in competing neon signs advertising both international and homegrown brands. The third largest city in India after years of break-neck expansion, Bangalore is fast emerging as an important manufacturing and distribution hub for top international brands. Nearly 2,000 textile and garment factories are located in and around Bangalore.
Bangalore Swimming Pool at at Shreyas Retreat Surrounded by Luminaria
Pool at at Shreyas Retreat Surrounded by Luminaria
Indian Employee at Call Center Provides International Support in Bangalore
Indian Employee at Call Center Provides International Support in Bangalore
An Indian employee at a call center provides service support to international customers, in the
southern city of Bangalore on March 17, 2004. The hiring frenzy at call centers in India is the flip side of daily tales pouring out of the US and Britain, where thousands of software and back-office jobs are being cut as companies take advantage of cheap communications offshore to drive down costs. India is the undisputed leader of emerging markets to which developed economies are outsourcing high-technology jobs, IT consultancy firm Gartner said in a report released on Wednesday. The $3.6 billion industry in India is seen rocketing to 13.8 billion by 2007 with the number of jobs quadrupling to 1 million.
Indian employees work at a call center in Bangalore
Indian employees work at a call center in Bangalore
Indian employees work at a call center in the southern Indian city of Bangalore June 26, 2003. India's call centers provide cheap English-speaking workers and high-speed telecoms to provide customer service helplines for companies around the world. They're a boon for India's army of job-hunting youth, but there is a murkier side to the industry.
India - Bangalore, India's Silicon Valley
India - Bangalore, India's Silicon Valley
Young Indians party at the Spin nightclub in Bangalore. When you think Bangalore, you think call centers and software outsourcing. But the city has moved far beyond those sectors to become one of the world's key innovation hubs, home to entrepreneurs with radical business models for everything from budget air travel to medical services. Huge centers for the likes of Intel, Cisco, and Motorola are helping dream up next-generation products. Venture capitalists, private equity funds, and Silicon Valley lawyers are flocking in. And Bangalore has become such a magnet for young achievers that it's pushing aside Bombay as the arbiter of consumer-goods cool in India
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