USAID Cuts Funding for Program to Train Foreign Call Center Workers

Legislative pressure to cut funding to U.S. companies that outsource call center operations overseas hits a Filipino job training program.

ALL IN A NIGHT’S WORK FOR FILIPINO CALL CENTER AGENTS

By Balitang America Staff Apr. 30, 2012 The U.S. Call Center and Consumer Protection Act, a bill pending in the U.S. Congress, proposed to penalize U.S. companies that outsource call center jobs by barring them fromreceiving federal grants and loans to train people abroad. The bill, introduced by Congressman Tim Bishop, now has more than [...]

The Indian Outsourcing Issue Is Back

President Obama’s campaign is running a new television ad in key swing states alleging, among other things, that Republican Mitt Romney “outsourced state jobs to a call center in India” while he was governor of Massachusetts.

SPi Global links with Scoot Pte Ltd.

Scoot Pte Ltd., the low-cost subsidiary of Singapore Airlines (SIA), recently appointed SPi Global, the largest Filipino-owned business processing outsource (BPO) company, as its call center.

Datalink Adds Managed Monitoring Service for Data Center Customers

Datalink , a leading provider of data center infrastructure and services, today announced a new managed monitoring service enabling data centers to outsource time-consuming system monitoring, alerting, problem identification, and performance analysis activities to Datalink’s dedicated managed services staff.

New Obama campaign ad attacks Mitt Romney for outsourcing American jobs

The Obama campaign charges in a new ad airing in three swing states that Mitt Romney’s economic plan is built on outsourcing jobs to foreign countries. “As a corporate CEO, he shipped American jobs to places like Mexico and China,” a male narrator says in the ad, running in Iowa, Ohio and Virginia. “As governor, he outsourced state jobs to a call center in India. He’s still pushing tax breaks ...

Quasar Applies to Be an FAA CATS Testing Center and Schedules Conference Call

JACKSONVILLE, FL-- - Quasar Aerospace Industries, Inc. and its subsidiary A-Cent Aviation, Inc., is proud to announce that it is expanding its Computer Assisted Testing Service located in Colorado Springs, ...