About 800 flight service specialists will file a lawsuit to stop the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) from outsourcing their jobs. The lawsuit will focus on age discrimination, as nearly 1,800 of...
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London's financial district will lose about 15,000 financial services jobs to India by 2010. According to research by Troika, more jobs will move to low-cost countries because companies now...
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Advisory firm TPI said that India's outsourcing industry should shift focus from US companies to EU companies. If their outsourcing industry does not do this, India would lose business...
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India's aerospace industry is being promoted as an offshoring base for foreign companies. According to Defense Minister Pranab Mukherjee, joint ventures that take advantage of India's low-cost...
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Sony's new chief executive is expected to outsource more of the company's electronics manufacturing to tier 1 providers. Newly appointed, Howard Stringer, said that changes may be coming,...
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Computer Sciences Corp. (CSC) won a $17.6 million outsourcing contract with China Pacific Property Insurance Co., the country's second largest property and casualty insurer. Under the five-year...
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According to the Global Outsourcing Report 2005, three-quarters of US companies outsourced IT activities in 2004, and the percentage is likely to increase this year. Moreover, half of the companies...
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Research firm, IDC, said that smaller service providers would benefit from the latest trend towards selective outsourcing. They said that companies are dissatisfied with large-scale outsourcing of IT...
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BT has been awarded a $6.5 million telecommunications outsourcing deal by SCA Hygiene Australasia (SCA HA). Over the next three years, BT will provide data, PABX and mobile voice services for the...
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Filed in archive by Danny on March 22, 2005
According to Nasscom's 2005's Strategic Review, Indian IT and ITES revenues is expected to exceed $28 billion in 2004 to 2005 from $21.5 billion in 2003 to 2004. The review stated that,...
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Wipro Ltd., India's third leading software service company, has recently launched its Chinese subsidiary. The company also has plans to set up a technology center later in the year. Sudip Nandy,...
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According to a recent study by Datamonitor, outsourcing is currently experiencing a period of "super growth" that is pushing it into the mainstream. The study stated that the United States,...
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India and the US may forge a historic collaboration with the possibility of defense research outsourcing. Indian Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran said that there has been interest shown in the project....
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In a study on worker retention in the Indian outsourcing market, over 50 percent of respondents said that lack of growth, desire for better job content, mismatched expectations, and dissatisfaction...
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Eastern European outsourcing companies are now looking for business in the EU because of the declining US dollar. It is no longer economical for both the US and Eastern European countries to do...
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McDonald's Corp, the world's largest fast-food chain, is planning to use call centers to improve drive-thru operations. They plan to use remote call centers to take customer orders....
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A new outsourcing business model which shifts focus from blind outsourcing to managed outsourcing is emerging in the industry. In the 'Managed Competition' model, instead of enlisting the...
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