More Outsourcing Hijinks from Hijacker HillaryShame, shame! Bartcop. You will not disclose Hillary Clinton's jobs exporting program for the state of New York. I have lived in the Buffalo area. It has been a city in decline for a long time. Being that it is downwind from Niagra Falls, New York,
Beau Fleuve got all the infernal exhalations of that industrial furnace town without any of the benefits. Luckily, Niagra Falls is just a cemetry of brownfields now. The ghosts of children, killed off by industrial diseases, wander its doomsday landscapes. As for Buffalo, it has been mainly a bakery town for the rest of the east coast. High tech was supposed to be Buffalo's salvation with clean jobs in code development.
Hillary has played more like the evil stepmother, who sends her unloved young charges into the coal mines for a few dirty coppers. You are supposed to represent New York's citizens, Hillary, not Tata Consulting!! TaTa Consulting Services gets 65% of its revenues from its North American operations. Those are revenues that leave the country. TaTa also gets a share of all technolgy patent fees generated at American universities. Not only that, but TaTa is a consortium of companies in such areas as auto components to cell phone networks. Why are we making touchdowns for the other side?
Hillary claims that the arrangement will create jobs in the Buffalo area. You believe her, right? Look at NAFTA as approved by her husband back in the 90's. Stop believing the lies!
Corporate partner
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Firm will look to UB for research projects that may have a commercial use
By FRED O. WILLIAMS
News Business Reporter
Buffalo's bioinformatics center signed up a new corporate partner Monday, one with capital and business ties that will help transform lab research into job-generating products, officials said.
Tata Consultancy Services, an infotech giant based in Mumbai, India, signed a research sharing partnership with UB in a ceremony Monday. It also announced the opening of a regional office in downtown Buffalo.
"TCS is an international powerhouse in the area of consulting and information technology," Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton said at the ceremony at the Hyatt. "I think this will lead to more jobs and investment here in Buffalo."
Sen. Clinton introduced the company to upstate New York in a tour last summer.
The high-powered announcement also drew Subramaniam Ramadorai, TCS' chief executive officer; Nobel laureate Herbert Hauptman, of the Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute, and Buffalo Mayor Anthony Masiello.
But local competitors fear TCS could end up exporting computer tasks to India, where wages for programmers are lower.
"If they pay half what we're paying, they're in a much better position," said John Gibson, president of Computer Consulting Services of Western New York, a 30-person firm in Amherst. "Labor cost is the largest portion of our business." Gibson's firm helps companies build computer systems to manage business data.
TCS has drawn criticism for employing non-citizens with temporary work visas in the U.S., as well as for exporting software development tasks to India. The company has 5,000 employees in North America, about one-quarter of its total employment.
Company officials said TCS will be a corporate citizen of Western New York and an engine of growth here.
"When TCS comes to a community we must belong to the community, participate in the activities of the community," chief executive Ramadorai said.
The company - whose clients include drug makers Eli Lilly Co. and Johnson & Johnson - will look to UB for research projects that can be turned to commercial use, such as drug development tools.
"Research for the sake of research is not something we look at," Ramadorai said.
TCS has formed partnerships with 18 universities including Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburgh, the University of Southern California, Riverside, Calif., and the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee.
Under the agreement, TCS may support research projects at UB in return for rights to commercialize the results, vice provost Bruce Holm said. License agreements for specific technology will ensure that Buffalo and New York state get a share of the work, he said.
The university is working on similar, non-exclusive agreements with other companies in Ireland and France, Holm said.
Headquartered in Mumbai, formerly called Bombay, TCS has annual sales of $880 million and 20,140 global employees. Its North American operations have 50 offices and generate more than 65 percent of total sales. TCS is part of India's Tata Group, a conglomerate of 80 companies in industries from auto components to cell phone networks.