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India's outsourcing lead over China is "weakening"

 12 November 2010

Global research finds China's outsourcing sector growing twice as fast as market leader India

UK govt already behind on IT reforms

 09 November 2010

New government transparency site reveals that various IT procurement reforms are overdue. Plus, minister’s meetings with tech vendors revealed

EU to offer Indian IT industry '50,000 work permits'

 08 November 2010

Leaked document reveals negotiations over EU accepting 50,000 new Indian IT workers, lobby group claims, with 20,000 allocated to UK

Business execs like cloud more than IT leaders

 03 November 2010

Survey finds that the arguments for cloud computing appeal more to business executives than their peers in the IT department

Google sues US govt for Microsoft-only policy

 02 November 2010

Web giant claims Department of the Interior unfairly mandated that an email procurement project should only use Microsoft products

IT services must be more local, warns Infosys founder

 27 October 2010

NR Narayana Murthy believes that India's IT services providers must do more hiring in customer markets to calm employment backlash 

Cameron assures businesses over immigration cap

 26 October 2010

Prime minister says proposed limit on immigration will not prevent UK businesses "from attracting the best talent from around the world"

Maintaining profit margins "a big challenge" for TCS

 22 October 2010

Indian IT outsourcer concedes that it will be difficult to keep margins high as rupee value rises

Don't try to negotiate special treatment from cloud providers, warns Google

 21 October 2010

Vendor selection is how businesses get what they want from cloud computing, says legal head of web giant's EMEA enterprise division

NEC to invest $1.2bn in cloud computing

 13 October 2010

Japanese technology giant plans five new data centres to capture overseas opportunity in hosted IT services

Wipro falls victim to employee embezzlement

 05 October 2010

India’s third largest IT outsourcer has delayed its annual report after finding out that an employee has been embezzling money since 2006

Foxconn to take over Dell factory in Poland 

 30 September 2010

EU approves Taiwanese company’s acquisition of assembly plant in Łódź, 18 months after PC maker moved work there from Ireland

US anti-offshoring law blocked

 29 September 2010

“Creating American Jobs and Ending Offshoring Act”, designed to encourage companies to move jobs back to the US, squashed by Republicans

Australian airline grounded by IT failure

 27 September 2010

Virgin Blue blames Accenture subsidiary for booking system error that affected 50,000 passengers this weekend

Analyst predicts “most severe downturn in history of IT”

 22 September 2010

Software and IT services spending in the UK will fall for an unprecedented five years due to public sector cuts, says TechMarketView 

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