A major investment company owned by Australia's leading bank Westpac is set to outsource over 70 jobs to India in a bid to improve customer service.
The retail industry in the country is likely to spend about $1.5-2.5 billion over the next five years on outsourcing their IT operations, according to a study.
Democratic US Presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton has joined party rival Barak Obama in promising an end to tax breaks to companies that ship jobs overseas, playing to the gallery on the hot-button issue of outsourcing as she tries to resuscitate her White House bid.
Escalating printing costs and a lack of understanding of technologies are forcing firms to look for alternative solutions to cut costs in document production.
India remains the favourite backoffice of the world thanks to its 'first-mover advantage' and deep skill base, as per global management consulting firm AT Kearney's ranking of the best outsourcing destinations.
United Liberation Front of Asom has been showing a growing propensity to work with Islamist militant groups like Harkat-ul-Jihadi Islami in the north-east and has begun to outsource operations, including suicide attacks, a leading US think tank said.
Top Democratic Presidential hopeful Barack Obama has proposed denying tax reliefs to companies that ship job overseas but said that education system must improve to check the trend.
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In a significant decision on Monday, the Supreme Court ruled that foreign companies would not have to pay tax on their global income earned from business related to their outsourcing arms/units if these are done at existing market prices.
There are many Americans whose only experience with trade and globalisation has been shuttered factories.
A Bharatiya Janata Party-led government will not implement the nuclear deal with the United States if the Obama administration withdraws tax incentives to companies outsourcing works, a senior party functionary said on Wednesday.
This increase in federal IT outsourcing, from the $12.2 billion spent in fiscal 2005, will be registered with the help of specific drivers.
Going ahead with its outsourcing spree, budget carrier Air Deccan on Wednesday tied up with Frankfinn Institute of Airhostesses Training as an exclusive cabin crew partner.
A day after Senate Republicans blocked passage of an anti-outsourcing bill, Democrat-led US on Wednesday made a conciliatory tone, stating the issue, which was an "irritant" in bilateral ties with India, can be "managed".
BP is apparently targeting a higher percentage of offshoring.
Sticking to his opposition to outsourcing jobs to countries like India, President Barack Obama has said that he wants to give tax breaks to companies that are investing in the United States.
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For that to happen, Moitra's much followed speeches should be heard outside Parliament so that the PR spins of the ruling dispensation are countered with informed debate, argues Shyam G Menon.
The TV pilot lacks the sparkle and humanity that made the 2006 film of the same name a little gem.
Indian drug makers may lose out on outsourcing contracts as overseas pharmaceutical companies defer their visits to the country in the wake of Mumbai terror attacks, according to industry experts.
Making a strong pitch to discourage outsourcing of jobs, United States President Barack Obama on Monday said that America's current tax structure gives incentives for shipping jobs overseas, a trend that needs to be reversed with incentives aimed at creating jobs inside the country.
Information technology products major Hewlett-Packard on Thursday denied reports that it has plans to outsource to India.
"A comment here and a comment there (on outsourcing of services to India) should not bother us. . . once Obama is in office, he will realise that it is an interconnected world and countries have to work together," he said.
Ahead of the presidential and legislative elections, the US Senate voted on Thursday to bar federal contractors from using taxpayers' money to move American jobs offshore.
First, the US today has bigger economic headaches than outsourcing.
US President Barack Obama has hinted that he is not going to insist on bringing back the low-wage, low-skilled jobs outsourced to countries like India and China but would work on creating high-skilled, high-paying jobs, which cannot be off-shored.
Barack Obama is the worst US president as far as outsourcing is concerned, says Jagdish Bhagwati.
By bringing in 'outsider' Sanjay Jha to address mediapersons from the AICC platform, the Congress party is not helping its case in regaining the ground it has lost in the perception battle, notes Renu Mittal.
The airline said it intends to run a full schedule at Gatwick on Monday and to operate a full long-haul schedule and a "high proportion" of its short-haul programme at Heathrow.
Analysts see HCL's Rs 1,780 crore deal with Reader's Digest and another half-a-dozen big deals signed in the past three months by Indian IT firms, encompassing both global and domestic markets, as evidence that the outsourcing story continues to progress as the best option for companies to cut costs in the current difficult economic environment.
The research and development outsourcing market for information technology in India is seen growing from $1.3 billion in 2003 to over $8 billion by 2010.
Human resource outsourcing services are expected to touch a volume of $25.4 billion by year-end, fuelled mainly by mid-sized North American and European companies, says an Everest Research Institute's Human Resources Outsourcing Annual Report. Growth will also be aided by reduction in transition costs and timeframes by existing suppliers, along with promotion of standardised offerings.
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