Microsoft plans to double its staff in outsourcing centers in Hyderabad and Bangalore in India by March 2006. Tess Field, Microsoft's head of human resources in India, said, "We aim to ramp...

The Kalakalan website posted an article about improving one's marketable skills in the IT field. Though the article was written for Filipino IT graduates and workers, much of what it discussed...

European-based Scottish Widows Investment Partnership (SWIP) has renewed its investment operations outsourcing arrangement with State Street. Chief executive of Scottish Widows and chairman of SWIP...

India is facing a shortage of high quality workers as outsourcing opportunities from the West keep coming into the country finding that top-quality workers are now fully employed. As a result, BPO...

Naryan Mitra argued that the rise of Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) "has become a double-edged sword for India". In his article published in the India Times News Network entitled...

At the Asia-Interprise EU-China Automotive Industry Meeting, the municipality of Chongqing in China has been cited by an EU delegate leader as a popular destination for European automotive...

Outsourcing consulting firm neoIT has released its annual report 'Mapping Offshore Markets Update 2005'. The report will help companies evaluate potential offshore locations and ranks India,...

Indian healthcare BPO companies are now targeting niche businesses in the US healthcare sector. Analysts say that offshoring to other countries will increase because of the need to comply with the...

Top Indian IT companies hope to win a substantial part of an outsourcing contract from European-based ING Bank. According to an industry official, companies expect ING to float their request for...

NASSCOM President Kiran Karnik recently said that Indian IT and IT enabled Services exports from India are seeing a good traction with an expected growth rate of 30-35 percent in 2005 to 2006. In...

General Motors Corp. (GM) will start a three-year cost-cutting plan on September 20. As part of a program to reduce its $85 billion worldwide purchasing bill by 20 percent, GM will urge its U.S....

Queensland utility Tarong Energy Corporation has extended its partnership with Mincom by signing a three-year IT outsourcing contract with an option to extend beyond 2008. Under the agreement,...

The European Union has called on India to open up its economy for attracting FDI in core sectors worth $150 billion. This move has been sought by Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for 10 years. At...

Telecom company Bharti Tele-Ventures and IBM have teamed up to develop IT and telecom solutions for the Indian enterprise market. The Managed Services initiative is part of the Joint Go-To-Market...

In order to tap the $200 billion global infrastructure outsourcing market, Wipro Technologies is betting on big investments: setting up a centralized global command center in Bangalore, hiring more...

According to a report by AFP, India's two largest software companies have each been awarded their largest outsourcing contracts. Both contract totals to $400 million. Tata Consultancy Services...

British Nuclear Group (BNG) has awarded a five-year �74m outsourcing deal with Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC). Under the deal, CSC will support 12,000 users across the UK, and manage BNG's...

LogicaCMG said that expansion of its outsourcing business could include setting up operations in the Philippines. Logica noted that skilled labor is more inexpensive in that country as compared to...