Monday, January 12, 2004		Companyspeak

India’s largest independent BPO company, Daksh eServices, has announced the setting up of its overseas facility at Manila in the Philippines with an investment of $ 5 million in the initial phase. The new state-of-the-art centre will employ 1,000 persons over the next one year and will offer customer service, technical support and back-office transaction processing services, the company said in a statement.

Based on what it called the growing success of its offshore software development programme, Colorado-based Evolving Systems Inc (ESI) announced plans to open a wholly-owned subsidiary — Evolving Systems India — in Bangalore. ESI CEO Stephen Gartside said Evolving Systems India will begin operations during the first quarter of 2004 and will eventually replace the company’s current relationship with an India-based development partner that performs approximately 60 per cent of the company’s development work. Evolving Systems India plans an initial workforce of nearly 40, although that number could change based on potential demand for the company’s solutions.

VIA Technologies has said it has chosen technology giant International Business Machines Corp (IBM) to manufacture its next generation of processor chips at the size of 90 nanometers. ‘’The decision to partner with IBM was based on the company’s ground breaking silicon manufacturing technologies which are designed to reduce power consumption and allow processor speeds of two gigahertz and beyond,’’ VIA Technologies said in a statement. However, the financial details of the deal were not disclosed.