The US Newspaper industry has been battling growing margin pressures since the last few years. Amongst measures like reducing global coverage, cutting edition sizes, streamlining resources and cutting excess jobs, several leading newspaper companies...

A recently released report by ValueNotes estimates that the revenues from offshored patent services to India to be $46 million for the calendar year 2007. Indian revenues are expected to grow at 35% per annum for the next 5 years. We expect the indus...

Multilingual publishing needs can be looked at in two ways. The first is core services required by multilingual publishers and the other, support services required by corporate firms....

The legal sector is offshoring large volumes of work and has started to take advantage of the labor arbitrage. The difference between legal and other industries is that corporate legal departments, and not law firms, were the promoters of legal outso...

The Indian pharmaceutical industry is becoming competitive. In an attempt to reduce risk companies are planning strategies to hive off their R&D units to focus on improved and innovative investment in R&D and to achieve faster growth....

The information search business is growing globally and the use of yellow pages is set to increase. Despite the increasing competition faced due to rapid expansion of Internet and increasing presence of the web media, the yellow pages industry has be...

A recent publication by ValueNotes estimates that in a span of seven years, the offshore market research industry has surpassed the domestic market research industry that has been around for over 50 years. The domestic market research industry is est...

An executive briefing session was conducted by ValueNotes in Mumbai on Thursday, 31st January 2008 to present the main findings of their latest research study - "Market Research Outsourcing (MRO) - The India Growth Story". The session saw e...

Offshoring of publishing services to India continues to grow, both horizontally and vertically. New "horizontal" niches and opportunities across hitherto untapped segments of publishing are opening up as vendors develop vertical capabilitie...

ValueNotes analysts put together some key trends for the year 2008: 1. Shake-up likely as smaller un-differentiated BPOs will be badly hit 2. Rigorous cost cutting by vendors inevitable in 2008 3. Smaller cities will shine brighter 4. Vendors to aggr...