Outsourcing News Archives

“The UAW didn't win anything. The plants that are allowed to stay operating were already allowed to stay open.”

United Auto Workers President Ron Gettelfinger stands with members of the bargaining committee during a news conference at the UAW Solidarity House in Detroit, Friday, Sept. via The Post-Star

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MKS Inc. today announced that Canon Software Inc has selected Japanese version of MKS Integrity for application lifecycle management and CMMI. via Market Wire

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Accenture Ltd. F4Q07 Earnings Call September 27, 2007 4:30 pm ET Executives Richard Clarke - Managing Director of IR Bill Green - Chairman & CEO Pam Craig - CFO Steve Rohleder - COO Analysts Adam Frisch - UBS ... via Seeking Alpha

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Crossroads Systems, Inc. , a leading provider of data protection and Business Information Assurance solutions, today announced its restructuring plans following an analysis of the company's growth ... via Business Wire

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“We're still going to get some drips on us, we're still caught in the mix, but it's not as severe to the schools as we thought it was.”

TALLAHASSEE - House leaders proposed cutting payments to hospitals, eliminating hundreds of mostly vacant jobs and reducing prison drug-treatment programs Wednesday as legislators started hacking more than $1 ... via News Press

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“If the India-centric IT service providers continue to grow at the current pace, at least two companies will be a part of the top 10 companies globally”

By Steve Ranger , Silicon.com Published on ZDNet News : Sep 27, 2007 5:59:00 AM Indian outsourcing companies need to make big acquisitions if they are to challenge the existing world order of global IT services ... via ZDNet

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“These young people work hard, with sincerity and dedication, and are well and fairly paid for that. We do not see how this translates into 'wanting to make a fast buck', as the minister reportedly said”

New Delhi, Sep 28 :Reacting sharply to comments of Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss on the lifestyle of Business Process Outsourcing employees, the National Association of Software and Services Companies ... via Newkerala.com

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The vehicles were said to be engaged by BPO firms - Photo: K. Manikandan ILL-FATED : The car which rammed a bus shelter on GST Road in Tambaram Sanatorium on Friday. via The Hindu

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Economy Bureau Posted online: Saturday , September 29, 2007 at 0016 hrs IST Bangalore, Sep 28 Chennai, Hyderabad, Pune and Kolkata were rated among the top five emerging destinations worldwide in the latest ... via Express India

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In the next 3-5 years, manufacturing could become the primary activity to be offshored to India, and surpass India's IT and business process outsourcing activities, states a new survey. via Business Standard

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September 29, 2007 Steven Baker The selection of Eklavya: The Royal Guard as the Indian official entry for the Oscars, has caused an unprecedented filmi commotion. via Desicritics

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“Outsourcing has gotten such a bad name attached to it. Penny-pinching business owners make full use of outsourcing whenever they can.”

I n many American households personal and business spending are intertwined. So smart spending on your small business can mean more dollars falling to your household's bottom line. via Chicago Tribune

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FDA Employees Beat Back Outsourcing Bid By Associated Press 4:37 PM EDT, September 28, 2007 WASHINGTON - The first round of Food and Drug Administration employees who faced losing their work to the private ... via Newsday.com

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“The whole thing looks fantastic”

UAW wins job security guarantees in deal By TOM KRISHER and DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Auto Writers DETROIT - General Motors Corp. via Kansas.com

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SOMERSET, Pa. -- DeVilbiss Healthcare, a Somerset company which makes respirator therapy devices, announced plans to outsource 80 manufacturing jobs to China. via ThePittsburghChannel

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“We will hold the billing rates for sure. I don't think we would be reducing the billing rates”

Posted by Administrator in Information Technology Rating: 0/5 Votes : 0 India's largest software and services firm Tata Consultancy Services on Thursday said outsourcing to the country would continue, even as ... via Ahmedabad.com

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“The capability at Wipro will enable Oki to provide high-quality technologies and products to its customers in a timely manner.”

The Japan News.Net Friday 28th September, 2007 Bangalore/ Tokyo, Sept. 28 : Oki Electric Industry Co. via The Japan News .Net

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“We intend to see that no man or corporate group of men shall profit inordinately on the blood of the boys in the foxhole.”

Sen. Claire McCaskill cleared a major hurdle Thursday in her push to create an independent panel that would investigate abuses in wartime contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan. via The Topeka Capital-Journal

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“They are more sophisticated how they mobilize their members (and) how they ... organize their support for candidates. Candidates understand that unions are a pretty valuable asset”

By Andrew Stern

CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. unions, taking lessons and tactics learned from the effort to arrest organized labor's long decline, say next year's presidential election will be crucial to their resurgence.

"You have more ground-level, grass-roots excitement about this election -- this is our election," said Greg Denier of the Change to Win coalition, which is composed of seven unions representing 6 million workers.

Denier said union polls showed most Americans wanted their government to redress the balance toward workers hurt by spiraling health-care costs and the outsourcing of work by "abusive" corporations. Read more

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Dana Thomas, a Paris-based journalist, has covered culture and style for the Washington Post, New York Times and Newsweek for more than 15 years.

She has watched the multibillion-dollar luxury industry expand and evolve from what once centered on a rarefied exclusive product into a profit-oriented mass market. She chronicles the transition from old-world family ownership to global corporate outsourcing in her humorous, informative book, Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster.

Luxury is increasingly available to the fashion-addicted shopper who skips meals to save for those Prada shoes or the 'It' handbag. But the so-called 'democratization' of luxury has taken away the power, says Thomas, now style editor for Newsweek. Read more

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Utrecht -- Equens and Seceti - a wholly owned subsidiary of the ICBPI Group in Italy - intend to establish a joint new company under Equens' current holding structure. via M2.com

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Barry Callebaut to gain a strong foothold in Japan by acquiring production capacities from Morinaga * Barry Callebaut plans to acquire production capacity in the highly attractive Japanese chocolate market from ... via Earth Times

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“When wages for software specialists in India reach around 40% of the UK rate and you factor in the cost of maintaining two offices, travel expenses, time differences and so on, the financial case for offshoring begins to unravel”

Source: www.contractoruk.com New evidence emerged yesterday that offshore outsourcing is reducing the number of IT jobs being created in the UK. via Offshore Outsourcing World Blog

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The Ohio Association of Public School Employees, or OAPSE, says the Marietta City Schools Board of Education is considering outsourcing bus drivers and custodial staff to cut costs. via WTAP-TV Parkersburg

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“We can't disclose the details at the moment. We will go in when the culture of the company is right”

BUSINESS process outsourcing and consulting services provider Scicom Bhd is keen to venture into China and Japan in line with its objective to grow organically. via Business Times

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“It's the equivalent of a bachelor's in computer science in six months”

Now India is outsourcing outsourcing. One of the constants of the global economy has been companies moving tasks - and jobs - to India, where they could be done at lower cost. via BlogspotNok8s81

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Avon Products Inc., a direct seller of beauty products, expects to take $15 million to $20 million more in restructuring charges as it cuts jobs, according to a regulatory filing Wednesday. via MSN Money

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Injazat Data Systems, the region's leading Information Technology Outsourcing and Business Process Outsourcing company, in cooperation with the Red Crescent and Abu Dhabi Mall, has today inaugurated a 'Charity ... via AME Info

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“We are ... aware that a large number of Serbians work in software companies all over the world, especially in the US”

An Indian company looking to cash in on eastern European "near-sourcing" signed a deal here to construct an IT park that Serbia hopes will become the biggest on the continent. via Free Republic

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“Anderson, in its own remarkable comeback, takes a huge step forward”

A Texas-based computer services company plans to hire up to 500 workers for a customer care center in Anderson during the next three years. via The Indianapolis Star

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“But given that she is the wife of the Labor leader, you would hope that she would recognise trade unions.”

THE British government is facing calls not to outsource any more welfare-to-work contracts to the job placement company owned by the multi-millionaire wife of Australian Labor leader Kevin Rudd. via News.com.au

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Submitted by Shadows on Tue, 2007-09-25 13:32. Would you rather have illegal aliens in the U.S. as a source of cheap labor for corporations, or would you rather continue to watch the outsourcing of jobs to ... via The Beaufort Gazette

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"India is outsourcing outsourcing. One of the constants of the global economy has been companies moving their tasks -- and jobs -- to India. via The Foundation for Economic Education

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“Xilinx India is one of our largest development facilities outside of the United States”

Xilinx Inc.'s center in Hyderbad will serve as its global R&D hub. Until now, the Indian center focused on developing IP cores. via EETimes

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“It will be nothing less than setting up a new company”

Raman Roy is the original poster boy of the Indian information technology industry. via Business Standard

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Official Statement of Teamsters General President James P. Hoffa WASHINGTON, Sept. via The Auto Channel

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“This opportunity is an affirmation of the quality of work that CGI has been performing”

IT outsourcing specialist CGI Group continues to score major deals in the United States. via Sympatico Finance

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“What we're looking for is their investment here - they would be generating jobs here for us if we think of cargo operations, sales and marketing operations”

Rockford-made machines could power the growth of Chinese companies. In turn, Chinese companies setting up American operations could fuel the growth of Rockford's economy. via The Rockford Register Star

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“Underlying all of this is a significant change in the age structure of the population and the age structure of those who work. That reflects a change that it is under way in West Virginia. We have the oldest average age population in the country.”

West Virginia's 4.7 percent unemployment rate - the lowest August rate on record - is a sharp contrast to the historic high of 19.6 percent recorded in February 1983. via The Times West Virginian

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Paris -- Alcatel-Lucent announced today that Andreas Herzog, Vice-President of Alcatel-Lucent's Network Operations activities will give a media tutorial on Mobile Network Outsourcing on October 2, 2007 at 4.00 ... via M2.com

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With an ever growing number of Americans travelling to India on business or pleasure, the Indian embassy has contracted an American firm to outsource the visa collection and delivery processes at its five ... via India eNews

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“If everything is okay, from next year the same company wants to pay and build stage two, stage three and stage four ... it's (potentially worth) about 200-250 million euros”

Goran Jesic, a young mayor with a reputation for investment coups, will sign a deal this week with an Indian company to build an IT park here, yet another win for this tiny Serbian town already hailed as an ... via PhysOrg Weblog

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“Indian consumers might catch everyone unawares by bridging the gaming gap with the developed markets more quickly than anyone could have imagined”

While India is known for outsourcing across a number of industries , the gaming market itself is primed for some major growth, according to Rajesh Jain, executive director at KPMG, who told Reuters that India's ... via GameDAILY Biz Features

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“I even have one customer who specifically comes to my cafe instead of others in the area because he can print from his laptop while he's doing work here.”

The Wireless Printout System lets users send files directly to a printer from the www.wirelessprintout.com Web site--from any computer connected to the Internet using a WiFi network. via TMCnet

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Siemens LLC, the regional company of Siemens AG, today announced the launch of the operations of Siemens IT Solutions and Services in the Lower Gulf region . via AME Info

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SupplyChainBrain's panel of experts is available to answer your questions on a variety of topics. via Global Logistics/Supply Chain

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“I learned from Premier how to do more with less.”

Not everyone shares the Bexar County Commissioners' eagerness for the departure of Premier Management Enterprises, the Louisiana company that agreed to exit the jail commissary not far behind former Sheriff ... via MySanAntonio.com

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Stupid, Ignorant or Biased? President Franklin D. Roosevelt's closest adviser and architect of the New Deal, Harry Hopkins, advised, ``Tax and tax, spend and spend, elect and elect, because the people are too ... via A Different World

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“Outsourcing and offshoring are complex issues critical to the continued growth and competitiveness of our industry and workforce”

The race is on! Research reveals IT outsourcing and offshoring are taking competition to a new high Reports provide guidance on emerging trends in service delivery, attitudes towards risk, spending forecasts ... via Canada NewsWire

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With effect from January 1, 2008, Orange Switzerland will be transferring the extension of its mobile network, as well as the technical operation and maintenance of the entire network to Alcatel-Lucent. For ... via Unstrung

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HOUSTON: Four Indian Americans - Acoustics pioneer Amar Bose, Google founder director Kavitark Shriram, venture capitalist Vinod Khosla and Bharat Desai CEO of an info-tech outsourcing firm - have made it to ... via The Times of India

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Dr. Ravinder Rena Eritrea Institute of Technology September 18, 2007 An Indian worker works on a construction site as the sun sets in New Delhi. via World Press Review

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“Our people were reacting to a car bombing.”

Blackwater USA, an American contractor that provides security to some of the top American officials in Iraq, has been banned from working in the country by the Iraqi government after a shooting that left eight ... via HendersonvilleNews.com

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“We looked at a number of potential acquisition targets in the UK, some of them very large. However, Converso's impressive client list, strong financial services pedigree and an entrepreneurial spirit closely matched our own business culture.”

Usha Matrin, a $750-million conglomerate which recently acquired the Britain-based outsourcer Converso Contract Centre, wants to develop and diversify globally in the business process outsourcing market. via New Delhi News.Net

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“Our sense is there's not a lot of money to be made in that category”

The Kodak EasyShare C513 camera fits easily in the palm, takes five-megapixel images, has a 3x optical zoom, and even shoots up to 80 minutes of video, depending on the memory card - all in all, fairly typical ... via Democrat & Chronicle

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“They keep things up and running, so it's seen as an additional cost. It's not as flashy as a new server or ERP system, even though they're the ones in the trenches, solving requests.”

Is there a model of entrepreneurship that blends the seemingly paradoxical strengths of an enterprise and a startup, while minimizing the weaknesses? There certainly is according to Professor Moren L ... via ITWorld Canada

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“They asked me what I though