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...beneficiaries of that backwardness is the U.S., which has attracted top-flight Indian techies and entrepreneurs with minimal effort to feed its hungry high-tech sector. But the Internet has begun to sneak through the barriers India erected against the outside world. Now the largest national pool of engineering talent in the developing world, a good proportion of which speaks English, is able to set up shop at home. Those engineers' underemployed sisters and cousins have proved willing to work cheaply at a new crop of labor-intensive jobs made possible by the distance-bridging technology of the Net. "Finally...
...Register needed help. Almost a year ago, the president of Heart-O-Dixie Animal Nutrition, a small chicken-feed maker in Montgomery, Ala., was looking to replace his long-distance carrier with a cheaper alternative. Otherwise, his phone bills would soon start to peck away at his bottom line. But with just two employees, Register couldn't afford to pull them from their day-to-day jobs to spend time calling carriers, requesting quotes and handling negotiations. "Phone service is one of the worst things to shop for," he says. "You have to read the fine print on everything...
...thousands of other entrepreneurs who are just making a go of it, that's not chicken feed either. Heart-O-Dixie is but one of a growing number of small businesses, from insurance companies to carpenters, that are turning to business-to-business (B2B) exchanges, or e-marketplaces, as a way to save money and gain leverage against large companies. In the past couple of years, dozens of websites have appeared that pool requests by small businesses and help them strike better deals with suppliers of products and services. Along with greater convenience, exchanges offer prices 15% to 25% lower...
Renovations have already been completed in Eliot, Kirkland, Lowell and Winthrop dining halls, four river Houses that UniLu depends upon to feed the temporary residents of the shelter...
...reduction in leftover food would be a major problem for the shelter, which depends on HUDS for food to feed shelter residents...