Outsourcing News

Consultancy Capgemini and Amazon.com will offer application development and hosting services using Amazon.com's infrastructure, the companies said on Tuesday.

India is clearly on Ben Verwaayen's mind, the chief operating officer of global telecommunications firm Alcatel-Lucent. In his own words, India is important for two reasons; “One it is a huge market. It’s a market with very creative players, different competing business models and sensitive to new services than any other market. The second reason is the talent and resources it offers.” ...

Satyam Computer Services, India's fourth largest software exporter, is eyeing to tap a large portion of the European market. ...

After going through a series of mergers and acquisitions, Mindteck, a Bangalore-headquartered IT services company, is looking to consolidate its various businesses which will see more work being moved offshore, ...

In an increasingly slowing economy, offshore providers of human resources services are well positioned to take market share from US-based suppliers as buyer companies are now more focused on early cost savings ...

NEW DELHI, INDIA, Nov 12, 2008 -- Bharti Airtel, India's leading integrated telecom services provider, and Nortel today announced an enhanced managed services agreement under which Nortel will continue to ...

New Delhi, Nov 17 : Despite the global economic slowdown, India's second largest IT exporter Infosys Technologies Monday said it was looking at mergers and acquisitions in Europe and Japan as it would ...

Dubai, Nov 13 : Emirates Airline Group subsidiary Mercator has partnered with Infosys Technologies Ltd to establish an Offshore Development Centre.

Texas' Department of Information Resources has granted IBM an extra week to say how it will fix serious problems with the state's newly expanded outsourcing of computer services.

Washington, November 15: : India said on Saturday that the incoming Obama Administration in the US has given an assurance to it that the policies to strengthen bilateral ties will continue and felt that ...

MANILA: Business outsourcing may not be the most glamorous industry in the world but it is one of the few bright lights amid the doom and gloom of the global financial crisis.

MUMBAI: With a view to broadening its footprint in Europe, leading software major Satyam Computer Services, is mulling acquisitions in France, a top company official said. ...

Architel, a Dallas-based IT infrastructure outsourcing company, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the assets of Atlas Technology Group, Inc. (OTC BB: ATYG), including ATG US, Tribeworks, Inc., Atlas Group Holdings Limited, and Atlas Technology Group NZ. Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed. ...

Bupa, a healthcare organization, has appointed Patni Computer Systems, a provider of IT and business process outsourcing services, to provide a managed service for its core business applications.

WuXi PharmaTech , a leading pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device research and development outsourcing company with operations ...

American Express, a leading global financial services company, has begun downsizing its Indian work-force as part of its worldwide efforts to cut costs.

Indian outsourcing companies, Cambodian textile workers and Korean automakers took a close look Wednesday at Barack Obama's trade stance, wondering what Democratic victories in the White House and Congress would spell for free trade.

Obama has said he is in favor of free trade agreements if they benefit the United States. He has criticized the one with South Korea, saying it does not adequately address an imbalance in auto trade. South Korean automakers sold 772,482 vehicles in the United States in 2007, while the U.S. sold 6,235 in South Korea, according to industry statistics.

Digital document management provider Océ has agreed to outsource the IT support for its European sales companies to Atos Origin. The deal came into force on November 1 and will last for seven years. ...

Pakistan has reportedly attained a number three ranking on RentACoder. "With the Pakistani Rupee depreciating and the Indian Rupee appreciating, costs are 25 to 40 percent cheaper," explained Imran Aftab of TenPearls, a business intelligence and software development company in Herndon, Va. ...

Washington: US President-elect Barack Obama has picked Indian-American Sonal Shah, an eminent economist who heads Google's philanthropic arm, as one of the advisers to help him assemble his White House team.