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Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Outsourcing Yearbook eBook launched
sourcingfocus.com is proud to announce the launch of The Outsourcing Yearbook 2012.
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China Outsourcing Sector Reaches $60 bn Turnover
China's IT outsourcing sector grew by 40% to reach $60.1 billion in 2011, according to its Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.
The IT services and software sector, rose by 32.4% to reach $292 billion. This was 4.4% quicker than the industry's average annual growth from 2006 to 2010.
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Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Business and Professional Services Sector Performing Better Than Expected, says CBI.
Despite the tough marketplace of the past quarter, numbers employed in Business & Professional Services grew (+10%) for a fourth quarter running, defying expectations of a decline (-11%). Firms expect headcount to continuing rising at a similar pace in the coming three months (a balance of +8%).
And the slowdown is not as rapid as previously predicted. Over the past three months business volumes declined at a slower pace (-11%) than had been expected (-20%). The decline in business values was more marked (-31%).
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Monday, February 27, 2012
CIO s Role to be Short Lived, say CFOs
43% of senior finance professionals in the UK believe that the CIO role will merge with the CFO role, says a study by IT services provider Getronics.
17% of the finance professionals thought that the CIO role would disappear altogether, in the wake of the trend that 77% of CFOs have claimed greater responsibility for IT decisions in the last 12-24 months.
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Friday, February 24, 2012
Capita Starts to Feel Benefit of Coalition Cuts
Capita shares lifted by over 4% as long-negoiated government contracts finally pop up on the balance sheet.
Capita increased revenues 7% to £2.93bn last year, while pre-tax profits fell £309.8m to £302.9m following £82.3m of write-downs pertaining to acquisitions made during the period.
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Thursday, February 23, 2012
PayPal is to create 1,000 new jobs Ireland.
The company, a subsidiary of eBay, currently employs 1,500 people at its European HQ in Blanchardstown, Dublin.
The new jobs will be for customer and sales support teams, order processors handling online payments from Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
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Monday, February 06, 2012
Fujitsu Canada Acquires TMC
Fujitsu Canada has acquired business and information technology (IT) consulting offering and service provider TMC.
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Russia’s answer to Silcone Valley planned
Viktor Vekselberg, one of Russia’s richest men, is spearheading an initiative to create a Russian rival to Silicone Valley or the UK’s own Tech City.
Skolkovo Research and Business Park, expected to cost 6bn, will be used to create an innovation cluster of a university, a research park and a city housing 35,000. It will be Russia’s first PPP (private public partnership) concerning education and enterprise. Construction has already started; the first students are expected in 2014.
Multi-billionaire Vekselberg will bring a delegation of executives to the UK next week, in the hope of attracting more international companies and institutions to join the project.
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