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...trio figured if they outsourced--a no-brainer given India's inexpensive software talent and Sethuraman's contacts--development would cost $150,000. Or so they thought. The first Indian company they worked with didn't measure up. India is more focused on business applications than shrink-wrapped software, so they realized they had to run the project themselves. But to do it in Greensboro meant raising $3.2 million. Their business plan was sound, but it was 2001, just after the dotcom bust, and investors weren't buying. Again they looked to India for a solution, but this time resolved...
...check covered living expenses for three adults and two children, complete with a cook and driver. Working 12-hour days, they hunted for investors and finally found their angel, an oil company CEO, who put up $600,000 and brought in other investors. After 18 months in India, VirtuosoWorks, Indian staff and all, moved to Greensboro. NOTION, launched last spring, according to Sonic Control magazine, "has the potential to become the first true mass-market music software...
...area was cordoned off by the army because, in the decades-long conflict with India for control of Kashmir, Azad was an unofficial war zone. The bus stations and grungy hotels of Muzaffarabad swarmed with secret police on the prowl for unwelcome strangers such as journalists, foreign diplomats and Indian spies...
...Meanwhile, shadowy Islamic groups ran clandestine camps that trained jihadi volunteers in guerrilla warfare and slipped them across the Line of Control?the unofficial border between the Pakistani and Indian areas of Kashmir?to ambush troops, Hindu civilians and politicians on the Indian side. President Pervez Musharraf, under pressure from the U.S. after 9/11, says he closed the camps in Azad Kashmir. But as recently as last August, according to sources in the militant groups, bands of guerrillas were still crossing over the Line of Control, dodging Indian land mines and patrols...
...diehard guerrillas are still crossing over the Line of Control to battle Indian troops, several militants say. It's possible they will redouble their attacks once the emergency has passed. Others fear that support for the militant cause will be boosted by the well-publicized success of their relief work. Ryan Crocker, U.S. ambassador to Islamabad, has noted his "concern" over the renewed strength of the jihadi groups, which may now find it easier to attract recruits and to wield political influence among ordinary Kashmiris. Still, the militants worry about another crackdown by Musharraf. As Lashkar-e-Toiba spokesman Yahya...