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'BPO Roadmap' For Cebu Pushed
Manila Bulletin, January 2012

Tholons and Cebu Investment Promotions Center (CIPC) which identified the challenges, as well as capabilities of Cebu having been named as “emerged BPO destination” in the world.


Guan Eng: Penang 2011 investment at RM10b, beats target
The Malaysian Insider, January 2012

research firm Tholons on the “Top 100 Outsourcing Destinations in the world” for 2012, pointing out that Penang had moved up two notches in the ranking from 79 to 77.


Nasscom ILF 2012 to focus on opportunities amid uncertainty
Deccan Herald, January 2012

Industry leaders like HCL Infosystems Chairman Ajai Chowdhry, Accenture CMD Avinash Vashishtha, MphasiS CEO Ganesh Ayyar, Zensar Technologies Vice Chairman and CEO Ganesh Natrajan, Genpact President and CEO N V Tyagarajan and Vice Chairman Pramod Bhasin and Wipro IT business CEO T K Kurien, among others, will participate in the event.


BPO players set UK roadshow
Manila Bulletin, January 2012

Cebu City has been in Tholons’ top 10 list of outsourcing destination, staying in the ninth spot as an emerged destination for global outsourcing for two years in a row. Tholons is a strategic advisory firm for global outsourcing and investments.


Santa Rosa marks 220th year, celebrates people’s spirit and a year of excellence
Philippine Information Agency, January 2012

Recently, the city is among the five cities in the Philippines cited in the top 100 destinations for information technology and business process outsourcing (IT-BPO) services in a report by technology investment and research firm Tholons. Santa Rosa ranked 86th after Metro Manila 4th, Cebu City 9th and Davao City 69th while Iloilo City is ranked 92nd.


Venture capital deals
CNN Money, January 2012

a New York-based developer of drag-and-drop Facebook page creation tools, has raised $1.2 million in seed funding. Backers include Great Oaks Venture Capital, Siemer Ventures and Tholons.


IT Parks & IT Industries in Kerala to get special focus: CM
Kerala IT News, January 2012

Avinash Vashistha, Chairman & GU MD, Accenture India asked big companies to collaborate with small innovators who come with disruptive solutions. They will be the game changers.


Special IT investment regions planned in Kerala
Business Line, January 2012

The plenary session featured panellists Mr Ganesh Lakshminarayanan, President and Managing Director, Dell India; Mr Avinash Vashistha, Chairman and GU Managing Director, Accenture India; Mr Pratik Mehta, Director-Public Sector, Microsoft India; and Mr V. Ramaswamy, Vice-President and Global Head, iON, TCS.


Cebu to hold roadshow on BPO services in UK
Sun Star, January 2012

He pointed put that it is in Tholons’ top 10 list of outsourcing destination, staying in the ninth spot for two years in a row. He said that investors who are not familiar with Cebu will “still pay attention” because of its place in the Tholons list. Tholons is a strategic advisory firm for global outsourcing and investments.


Kerala CM to open ‘India IT Summit' on Jan 19
Business Line, January 2012

Key speakers invited include Mr K. M. Chandrasekhar, Vice-Chairman, and Mr G. Vijaya Raghavan, Member, Planning Board, Government of Kerala; Mr Ajay Kumar, Joint Secretary-IT, Government of India; Mr Alkesh K. Sharma, Managing Director, Kerala State Industrial Development Corporation; Mr Kris Gopalakrishnan, Executive Co-Chairman, Infosys; Mr Ganesh Lakshminarayanan, President, Dell India; Mr Avinash Vashistha, Chairman and Country Managing Director, Accenture India.


Annual India IT Summit from January 19
IBN Live, January 2012

K M Chandrashekar, vice chairman, Planning Board; Ajay Kumar IAS, joint secretary, IT, Government of India; Alkesh K Sharma IAS,� MD, KSIDC; G Vijayaraghavan, member, Planning Board; Kris Gopalakrishnan, executive co-chairman Infosys; Ganesh Lakshminarayanan, president, Dell India; Avinash Vashistha, chairman and country Managing Director, Accenture India; V Ramaswamy, vice president,� TCS; Sudhir Nair, Sr vice president, Mahindra Satyam; Pradeep Udhas, executive director, KPMG, Rajeev S, director, ASB & Adjunct Faculty, IIM, Bangalore; Pritish Nandy,� chairman, Pritish Nandy Communications; Roopa Kudwa, Managing Director & CEO, CRISIL and Ashish Dhawan, Senior Managing Director Chrys Capital would participate in the summit.


Talent pool a challenge in Southeast Asia BPO -- Tholons
Business World Online, January 2012

GLOBAL CONSULTANCY firm Tholons, Inc. has cited talent pool as a challenge to the Southeast Asian countries’ business process outsourcing (BPO) industry but said it foresees niche specializations of the sector to continue to grow. This, as 12 cities from the Southeast Asian region, including five from the Philippines, made it to Tholons’ Top 100 outsourcing destinations.


Iloilo improves rank as BPO destination
Business World Online, January 2012

ILOILO CITY -- This city posted the biggest improvement among business process outsourcing (BPO) destinations in Southeast Asia as it climbed six notches, achieving a rank of 92 in the 2012 Top 100 Outsourcing Destinations report by investment and research firm Tholons.


Iloilo climbs higher in rank among 100 BPO global destinations
Manila Bulletin, January 2012

According to Mayor Jed Patrick Mabilog, Iloilo City ranked 92nd in the newly-released 2012 Tholons Top 100 Outsourcing Destinations. It was six points higher than its 2010 rank. “Iloilo experienced a significant rise as aggressive development in infrastructure and capabilities development are pursued,” Tholons noted in the study.


Aquino unfazed by proposed US
Malaya, January 2012

He said six cities in the Philippines had also been included in the Top 100 Cities in the World for Outsourcing Report made by Tholons Inc. He said IBM’s Global Locations Trend 2010 Report cited the Philippines as "the world leader in terms of jobs for shared services and BPO services."


Annual India IT Summit from January 19
IBN Live, January 2012

Avinash Vashistha, chairman and country Managing Director, Accenture India; V Ramaswamy, vice president,� TCS; Sudhir Nair, Sr vice president, Mahindra Satyam; Pradeep Udhas, executive director, KPMG, Rajeev S, director, ASB & Adjunct Faculty, IIM, Bangalore; Pritish Nandy,� chairman, Pritish Nandy Communications; Roopa Kudwa, Managing Director & CEO, CRISIL and Ashish Dhawan, Senior Managing Director Chrys Capital would participate in the summit.


City among top 100 cities in outsourcing industry
Sun Star, January 2012

The Tholons’s report showed that Manila garners the top spot in Southeast Asian rankings of Tholons 2012 Top 100 outsourcing destination. The city remains as the outsourcing hotbed of the Philippines with major delivery centers from companies like HP, IBM, Dell, Convergys and Teleperformance. Tholons also reported that the Philippines has recently surpassed India as the call center capital of the world with an estimated 400,000 call center agents compared to India’s 350,000.


Trivandrum to host CII India IT Summit 2012
Kerala IT News, January 2012

India IT Summit 2012 will be inaugurated by Shri Oommen Chandy, Chief Minister of Kerala. Kris Gopalakrishnan, Executive Vice Chairman, Infosys; Ganesh Lakshminarayan, President, Dell India; Avinash Vashistha, CMD, Accenture India; V Ramaswamy, Sr. VP, TCS; Sudhir Nair, Sr. VP, Mahindra Satyam; Pradeep Udhas; Executive Director, KPMG and Roopa Kudwa MD & CEO, CRISIL are among those invited as speakers.

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