News for Offshoring
Monday, May 20, 2013
Banking security is questioned after significant losses in India
A compromise in security at two Indian based card-processing companies, ElectraCard Services and EnStage, has resulted in multi-million dollar financial thefts across continents.
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Friday, March 15, 2013
NOA Welcomes Fresh Blood On-board
The National Outsourcing Association has today announced the results of its leadership elections – and 8 new people will take seats on the new strategic council, with a range of new positions accounting for the prevalence of outsourcing in all vertical sectors. Incumbent board members will continue in similar roles to their previous positions within the NOA. The core objective of the new council will be to help the NOA further its work in developing the outsourcing profession through the proliferation of standards and qualifications. The first meeting of the council is on April 22nd 2013.
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Wednesday, August 15, 2012
Capita IT staff vote for industrial action
Capita members of the Unite union are preparing to strike after the company announced plans to offshore work to India.
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Monday, July 09, 2012
BMW set to invest £250 million in UK factories
BMW is to invest £250 million in UK factories in order to increase Mini production. The factories are located in Birmingham, Swindon and Oxford.
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Wednesday, July 04, 2012
Hotels.com brings offshore development team in-house
Hotels.com have has reduced software product cycles down from 26 weeks to a 2 week cycle after moving development in-house.
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Monday, June 25, 2012
Obama criticises Romney as an “outsourcing pioneer”
Barack Obama in a speech last Friday attacked Mitt Romney over investments by Bain Capital which Romney used to run, calling him an “outsourcing pioneer”.
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Thursday, June 21, 2012
Wells Fargo looks to offshore jobs to India and Philippines
Wells Fargo & Co are looking at reducing cost through offshoring as part of continued cost-cutting measures. A spokeswomen from the company said that the bank is considering moving technology, retirement divisions and other departments to India and the Philippines.
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Thursday, May 31, 2012
Mahindra Satyam creates French Aerospace and Defense centre
Global Engineering and IT services provider Mahindra Satyam have announced the setting up of an delivery centre for Aerospace and Defense in Toulouse, France, as part of the companies European expansion strategy.
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Thursday, May 17, 2012
General Motors saves 2,100 jobs at UK Vauxhall factory
GM will save 2,100 jobs and create hundreds more after the company announced that it has chosen Ellesmere Port car factory to create the next-generation Astra.
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Monday, May 14, 2012
80 percent of the public do not believe outsourcing helps the British economy
Research commissioned by the National Outsourcing Association (NOA) has revealed that 80 percent of the UK general public do not believe that outsourcing contributes to the economy.
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