OUTSOURCING

With Google's reign, there is no longer any need to memorize anything aside from academic and professional uses, and our brains have been proven to know that too.Columbia University psychologist Betsy Sparrow and her colleagues conducted a series of experiments, in which they found that people are less likely to remember information when they are aware of its availability on online search engines. In a way, Google and the Internet use in general have offloaded memory demands from our brai...

It has become a part of everyday vernacular to say, Oh, just Google it, in order to find information not readily known. Because Google has seemingly become a part of everyday life, a new study indicates that it is altering our brains.

It has become a part of everyday vernacular to say, Oh, just Google it, in order to find information not readily known, and because Google has seemingly become a part of everyday life, a new study indicates that it is altering our brains.

America faces a lingering unemployment problem after the recession because business needs no longer match the workforce's education, training.

Wall Street is enjoying record profits, while Main Street continues to struggle. The reason why is clear, since Wall Street and Main Street have different interests.

Online media is rife with rumors of Twitter launching its own photosharing service with Techcrunch reporting first and AllThingsD posting a confirmation on its website. Even though Twitter refused to comment on the issue, rumors are pointing in the right direction, particularly when examined under the light of the business decisions Twitter has been announcing recently.

What image do you have in mind when you think of a business building? Are you tired of desolate scenes of people working before computers in a concrete jungle? Pasona, an internationally renown personnel outsourcing firm for its Urban Farm, the eco-office, breaks the typical perception about business offices.

Infosys Technologies, India’s second largest outsourcer, continued its expansion in China by setting up a new campus at the Zizhu Science and Technology Park in Shanghai and planned investment up to $150 million, reports said

Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) was slammed by the market on Tuesday after posting inline results, but a reduction in its full-year outlook.

With Mark Zuckerburg admitting that he was kind of nervous in his opening remarks while hosting Barack Obama at the Facebook headquarters, the young entrepreneur and the president sought comfort in a trivial yet hilarious chat about clothes.

NASA is working to ensure the next generation of space craft is American-made.

NASA has awarded projects worth millions to four commercial space transportation companies as part of its Commercial Crew Development (CCDev2) program.

Genpact Ltd (NYSE: G), the outsourcing company spun off from General Electric Co., has agreed to acquire privately-held IT services provider Headstrong Corp. for $550 million in cash to expand its operations in the United States.

Apple may face supply chain disruptions for its newly launched iPad 2 as a 9 magnitude earthquake in Japan impacted several component makers for the tablet, according to a report from IHS.

Xyratex Ltd.'s (NASDAQ: XRTX) hard disk drive-related business segment Storage Infrastructure is currently under pressure from continued, weak demand and excess supply for 2.5-inch (i.e. notebook) drives, according to RBC Capital Markets.

Robert W. Baird downgraded its rating on shares of MedAssets, Inc. (NASDAQ: MDAS) to neutral from outperform and lowered its price target to $18 from $24, on disappointing fourth quarter results and on annoying 2011, long-term outlooks. MedAssets stock plunged 22.61 percent.

Indian technology companies are now looking to hire fresh engineering graduates from American universities, as stringent immigration norms and high unemployment in the US make local hiring attractive, said a media report.

Outsourcing by U.S. technology companies is on the decline, according to a survey by BDO USA, the accounting and consulting organization.

Nokia is dropping its home-grown platforms and putting Windows Phone 7 on its devices, dropping the Symbian and MeeGo platforms.

Nokia CEO Stephen Elop trashes Symbian and says company is far behind Apple and Android.

Payroll gains are the golden indicator for the US economy at this time because it reveals conditions in crucial areas and is the catalyst for the next step of the recovery process.