Businesses and public sector organisations continue to outsource operations, with demand for shared services outstripping traditional outsourcing. According to KPMG research into outsourcing trends, over half (52%) of organisations in ...
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About a year ago,Xerox told some 600 employees,many of them engineers,that their jobs were being transferred to an India-based IT services firm. How has that worked out?Neither company is disclosing detail about what's been going on,but ...
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The Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) has stuck with old ways of working and will contract a single outsourcing giant for its desktop management services contract. DCLG has been given the go-ahead to refresh its IT ...
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“Royal Mail wanted a CIO who is comfortable in a really volatile and changing environment to drive change. And I am. I joined because the scale of the challenge is huge and I would be mad to say no to that.” Catherine Doran ...
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Zurich Insurance has extended an IT application outsourcing contract with CSC, which could lead to the relationship spanning 19 years. A seven-year extension to a deal originally penned in 2004, which will start in 2013, also has the ...
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The number of new IT and business process outsourcing contracts worldwide dropped year-on-year in the third quarter, with contract values also decreasing, a research firm said. Everest Group, which had reported a drop of 20 percent ...
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Faced with challenging economic conditions in its key markets of the US and Europe,India's fourth-largest IT services provider plans to expand its consultancy services business and focus on three technologies. It all began with vegetable ...
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ZAO Air Liquide Severstal, a joint venture between Air Liquide and OAO Severstal has successfully launched a plant to produce industrial gases for CherMC at Cherepovets Steel Mill, part of Severstal’s Russian Steel Division. The ...
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Rapidsoft Systems,a leading developer of Mobile VoIP and other advanced technology solutions,launches updated versions of its popular rDialer Series of Mobile Dialers and Mobile SIP Softphones for VoIP operators. PRINCETON ...
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American International Group (AIG) has introduced CyberEdge business risk and insurance cover in the Middle East to negate the threat of cyber-attack to a company. AIG MEA Region Professional Indemnity head Juliette Pettit said, ...
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Chocolate manufacturer Barry Callebaut is to become the globe’s largest cocoa processor with the acquisition of the Cocoa Ingredients Division of Petra Foods, based in Singapore for $950M. Barry Callebaut is to become the ...
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Economy (i) GDP Through rough calculation, the GDP of Hainan province in 2005 is 90.36 billion RMB. Converted by the present rate of exchange, the GDP per capita of Hainan is about 1,357 US dollar. Sketch Map on GDP Growth Rate of ...
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The US International Trade Commission(ITC)announced the result of the anti-dumping and anti-subsidy investigation against China-based solar firms on November 7,2012.China-made solar cells will be subject to 14.78-15.97%anti-subsidy tariffs ...
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The China government is likely to impose anti-dumping and anti-subsidization tariffs on polysilicon imported from the US,EU and South Korea in January or February 2013,and this will cause China spot market prices for the material to rise ...
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Private-equity firm Wind Point Partners has snapped up US snacks group Shearer's Foods in a takeover backed by former Sara Lee executive C.J. Fraleigh. Wind Point Partners has acquired what it called "the largest producer of private-label ...