Outsourcing: Brazil blossoms as IT services hub

CapGemini's announcement last week that it would invest $298 million in Brazilian IT service provider CPM Braxis attracted a lot of attention in outsourcing circles. The move will give the Paris-based company a 55 percent stake in CPM Braxis, the option to buy the company outright within three to five years of the close of the deal, and the chance to leapfrog its global competitors already ...

American Made: Five Companies Bucking the Outsourcing Trend

Labor Day, that traditional American holiday dating back to 1882, invokes a different kind of patriotism this year as Americans struggle to find jobs and a new "American Made" movement takes hold in Congress.

An American Monument Means Chinese Jobs?

An American bricklayer's union is calling on the Obama administration to deny visas to a group of Chinese workers selected to travel to Washington this fall to assemble a sculpture on the National Mall in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Members of the Local 1 Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers union leafleted the Martin Luther King Memorial Foundation offices in downtown Washington ...

Ohio bans outsourcing to offshore locations

Ohio has banned outsourcing of government IT and back-office projects to offshore locations such as India.

Ohio outsourcing ban is trade barrier: India Inc

The Indian IT sector, which gets 60 per cent of its export revenue from the US, on Wednesday said the move by the state of Ohio to ban outsourcing by government departments to offshore locations like India is discriminatory and amounts to a trade barrier.

Independent Research Report Cites CSC as a 'Leader' in North American Application Outsourcing

FALLS CHURCH, Va.----CSC announced today that it has been identified as a “Leader” in the Aug. 25, 2010, Forrester Research, Inc. report “The Forrester Wave™: North American Applications Outsourcing, Q3 2010.” The report evaluated 12 applications outsourcing service providers across 38 criteria that included current offerings, strategies and market presence.

TeleTech Announces Exclusive Multiyear Agreement with the American Bankers Association

ENGLEWOOD, Colo.----TeleTech Loan Services, LLC, a subsidiary of TeleTech Holdings, Inc. , one of the largest global providers of technology-enabled business process outsourcing solutions, today announced an exclusive, multiyear agreement with the American Bankers Association to offer mortgage fulfillment services to ABA members.