Skype Looking towards India for growth

Mint has a very interesting report it seems that Skype, an eBay Inc. Internet telephony company, is facing manpower shortage stemming from a talent crunch in the relatively small population, coupled with strict European Union hiring restrictions.In case you missed it Skype recently had a severe outage which threw its worldwide operations out of gear.

“Right now we have survived but we are not sure about the future,” claims a company spokesperson. “It may certainly have some effect on our projects. The strict Estonian laws do not promote hiring from outside the European Union.”

Skype says it has been lobbying with the Estonian government to relax hiring laws. “We are trying to talk to the government about employing talent from overseas including India. Now, they have started listening to us,” the spokesperson added.
Now this is another opportunity for Indians to showcase their skills in cutting edge technologies rather than letting their talents being exploited by Indian software factories

via mint