Apple Pulls Out of India

tanveer1979 writes "Barely 3 months after it commenced India operations, Apple has decided to pull out its software operations from Bangalore. The employees will be given a severance package which is equal to two months' pay. The sales and marketing operations will remain on (these consist of around 30 people) but the software and support will be completely pulled out." From the article: "Apple had set itself a hiring target of 600 by the year-end. After a gala induction ceremony on April 17, the operations team went to Transworks for training. Some of the managers were about to leave for the US for further training when they were asked to stay put."

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Pop-ups

[Otter]

Those popup ads that the Times of India link is spraying, that aren't blocked by Javascript window suppression in Firefox or Mozilla -- is there a way to get rid of them?

I've seen them elsewhere (interestingly, always on foreign newspaper sites) but web searches only turn up people complaining about them, only to have jackasses insist that they must be spyware-infected because Firefox is infallible. (As I type this I'm realizing what answer I'm likely to receive, but nonetheless...)

Re:Pop-ups

[liangzai]

Two methods:

1) Safari

2) www.privoxy.org

Re:Were they in time?

[vistic]

What's wrong with Indian Apple babies?

Re:we were wondering too

[Reaperducer]

Thanks. I have most of the buildings you mention already. Unfortunately, I also have a backlog of about 6,000 photos from 20 cities. They'll all end up there... eventually.

Re:we were wondering too

[moro_666]

oh man, i feel so depressed now ...

anyway, i think apple got affraid of that alien bacteria stuff that we had an article around a few days back, even the in soviet russia they haven't found a cure against it ... maybe it started to affect apples ? :p

ok, reality just shows out that it wasn't worth the money, they were not saving, they were spending and that's against the whole idea of going in there...