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...these hurdles are steadily being overcome. Since opening its first emerging-markets operations centers in China and Uruguay in 2002, TCS's annual revenues from Latin America, the Middle East and the Asia-Pacific region have surged from $160 million to $1.2 billion, or about 20% of total sales. "The investments we've made in emerging markets have all reached a critical size," says TCS's Chandrasekaran. TCS discovered that its expansion has opened up new opportunities to lure business from international clients. After struggling to convince Spanish companies to outsource to India, TCS found them much more comfortable outsourcing...
...space wasn't keeping up," says Brian Rakowski, director of product management for Google Chrome. "So we decided to start designing a browser from the ground up to see if we could build one that is faster, easier to use and fundamentally more secure." So far, more than 40 million users have downloaded it. (See the top 10 iPhone apps...
...there's our once-a-decade constitutional ritual: the U.S. Census, in which we attempt to become more certain about ourselves. The last Census, in 2000, determined that there were 281.4 million of us, more than three times as many as in 1900. Half of us live in suburbs. The center of population shifted 324 miles west and 101 miles south, to Phelps County, Missouri. America used to be majority male, but by 2000 only seven states, all in the West, had more men than women. In 1900, the average household contained five people; by 2000, it had dropped...
...Senate has passed a wide-ranging health care reform bill, lawmakers in the two houses of Congress must reconcile the small but critical differences in their versions before President Obama can sign a bill into law. Both proposals are expected to expand health coverage to more than 30 million uninsured Americans...
...Peek's skills floored screenwriter Barry Morrow and helped inspire Dustin Hoffman's savant character in the Oscar-winning drama Rain Man. Peek became an overnight star and spent the rest of his life showcasing his gifts to more than 64 million people. Had he chosen to, he might have memorized every name...