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PLDT cranks up BPO arm for primetime

After its formal introduction as the consolidated BPO division of PLDT, SPi Global has set an ambitious goal of generating at least $500 million in revenues in the next three to four years from last year’s income of $185 million.
SPi Global, which arose out of the combination of SPi Technologies and ePLDT Ventus, said it [...]

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Fri, August 27 2010 » Industry Leader Profiles » No Comments

China gives tax break to service outsourcing firms

China will exempt service outsourcing companies from business tax from July 1 until the end of 2013 to boost their expansion, the Finance Ministry said on Wednesday.
In a statement on its website, the ministry said the policy covers firms specialising in information technology outsourcing (ITO), business process outsourcing (BPO) and knowledge process outsourcing (KPO) in [...]

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Thu, August 19 2010 » Industry Leader Profiles » No Comments

Is China ready for your outsourcing work?

While China is well on the way to establishing itself as an outsourcing hotspot, the country isn’t set up for European and Northern American offshoring business just yet, according to new research.
A report by outsourcing consultants Everest rated China – along with India and the Philippines – as a mature offshoring destination, with more than [...]

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Wed, August 18 2010 » Industry Leader Profiles » No Comments

China beats India as top outsourcing spot

EW DELHI: China has replaced India as the primary destination of outsourcing and shared services for Asia-Pacific companies, according to the accounting firm KPMG.
The China Daily quoted the KPMG survey, which covered 280 senior company executives across Asia, as saying that China’s outsourcing and shared services are rapidly expanding and winning market share over [...]

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Thu, July 22 2010 » Industry Leader Profiles » No Comments

AdPort What?

A new face has emerged in the world of International Business Directories, to become one of the fastest growing on-line directory publishers anywhere.  AdPort Publishing™, a division of PerfectReputations® has launched a large flotilla of new national and international business directories focused on Advertising and Marketing, Resort Hotels, and of all things, Storm Chasers!
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Sat, July 10 2010 » Business Services, Business Transformation Trends, Management Trends, On-line Marketing Tools » No Comments

Ghana invests $150m in nationwide broadband infrastructure

The Ghana government has awarded a $150 million contract to Huawei Technologies, a Chinese-based ICT and telecommunication infrastructure company, to provide modern infrastructure to ensure internet broadband availability countrywide within the next 24 month.
Mr. Haruna Iddrisu, Minister of Communications, announced at the opening of a two-day international conference on Business Processes Outsourcing (BPO) that the [...]

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Fri, April 30 2010 » Industry Leader Profiles » No Comments

Cost-Hikes in China, India to Push U.S. into Manufacturing Powerhouse

With expenses rising in traditionally low-cost countries like mainland China, there is an ongoing debate as to the probability of the U.S. turning into a manufacturing factory once again.
According to a survey done by the Manufacturing Institute of the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), reveal that among the top priorities for manufacturers were tax policies [...]

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Tue, April 20 2010 » Business Transformation Trends, Industry Leader Profiles » No Comments

Analysis: China targets India as outsourcing race hots up

Back in 2004 Forbes ran a poll asking its readers if China or India would be the premier outsourcing location in the global business world by 2010. In itself it appeared a facile question, given the growth of India’s outsourcing giants and the fragmented nature of the Chinese outsourcing market.
Now, as that 2010 date looms, [...]

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Tue, April 6 2010 » Industry Leader Profiles » No Comments