offshore outsourcing news from FierceCIO

Are you looking for cheap software developers and testers but you don't want to exacerbate the country's jobless recovery by sending more work to India or China? Then look no further than Minnesota. Read more...

Wholly owned offshore service centers, or captive centers, have seen some rocky days; a slew of major enterprises, including Unilever, Citigroup (NYSE: C) and Dell have closed theirs. Nonetheless, Read more...

IBM is planning another round of layoffs--this time around it will be 2,000 workers. After shrinking its U.S. workforce by as many as 10,000 employees last year, IBM this week may be on its way to Read more...

There's a new warning for companies that outsource work overseas. Some companies place trade secrets and critical information in the hands of their overseas operatives to get work done, reports Read more...

There's a new trend in outsourcing, and it's not overseas. One of the fastest growing destinations for outsourced jobs is right here in the United States, reports Business Week. ODesk, a company Read more...

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton just completed a trip to India, but she did not get specific about outsourcing concerns in the United States. Clinton promised to improve cooperation on high-tech Read more...

There's plenty of debate these days over how to keep U.S. jobs onshore and not exported to other countries where the labor is cheaper and the deals are better, especially in technology. This week, Read more...

Just last Friday, the Wall Street Journal reported that Delta Air Lines announced that it has stopped using India-based call centers to handle sales and reservations. Delta is just the latest U.S. Read more...

With a sour economy and tech jobs being cut, the demand for H-1B visa applications this year is on the decline--at least as the current numbers stand. In April 2008, within just five days, the U.S. Read more...

IBM is a major outsourcing company in India where it has around 36 percent of the market. But it is about to grow even bigger despite plenty of predictions that offshore outsourcing will be coming Read more...