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Hewlett-Packard’s whittling down of its webOS portfolio continued Tuesday with the firing of 275 of the remaining 600 employees working in the business unit acquired with its $1.2 billion acquisition of Palm in April 2010.

HP let go more than 500 webOS employees last September in the aftermath of its decision to shut down its TouchPad tablet and future webOS-based consumer hardware products. Former Palm chief executive Jon Rubenstein, who been serving as senior vice president of HP’s PC business since the acquisition, left the company in late January.

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After getting hundreds of negative calls and emails, Bullitt County Public Schools has dropped a plan to research whether outsourcing custodial services would save the district money.

But the district’s decision didn’t stop a crowd from attending the Feb. 22 board meeting to oppose the idea, even though the proposal had been removed from the agenda a couple of days earlier.

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Serco said on Tuesday that the rush to outsource by governments around the world had led to £30bn of opportunities this year, with more than a quarter in fast-growing Asian and Australasian markets.

The UK-based group, which runs services as wide-ranging as the Barclays Cycle hire scheme in Britain to detention centres in Australia, said it had secured £17.9bn of orders at the end of last year compared with £16.6bn at 31 December 2010.

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Outsourcing works OK for a small representative office, though I haven’t heard of any projects in Russia for companies with several thousand employees,” the finance director of a big international holding told me. His company recently acquired several plants in Russia with a total employee headcount of about 7,000 employees. Here is a perception that is widespread in Russia: Outsourcing is good only for small international startups where there is not always a sufficient workload for a full-time accountant and, besides, the head office would use the third-party accounting provider to minimize its risks. Regretfully, the actual positive big number of cases are not well-known on the market.

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IBM has laid off more than 800 workers at locations across the U.S. in the past 24 hours, according to company sources and documents obtained by InformationWeek. Many of the cuts appear to target the company’s Global Technology Services outsourcing group.

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Tech Mahindra is awaiting “official communication” from Etisalat, the company said, after a media report that the carrier has cancelled its outsourcing contract with the Indian provider as it shuts down its India network, Money Control reveals.

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All work has stopped on a proposal to outsource library services pending a final City Council vote on the matter.

“As far as I’m concerned, it’s dead in the water,” Deputy City Manager Michelle Skaggs Lawrence told the Library Board of Trustees on Monday.

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StarTek, Inc. SRT -0.97% , a leading provider of business process outsourcing services, today announced that it has signed an agreement with Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. for a three-year $20 million secured revolving credit facility. The amount the Company may borrow under the revolving credit facility is subject to a borrowing base calculation, and has an initial availability of $10 million, with the flexibility to borrow up to $20 million at the Company’s option. The facility will replace the Company’s $7.5 million secured line of credit with UMB Bank, which was to expire in August 2012. The interest rate on borrowings will decrease from LIBOR plus 3.75% to LIBOR plus 2.50%-3.00% under the new agreement.

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City Capital Corporation (Pinksheets: CTCC) announces that it has retained the services of Legal Outsourcing Group LLC. With combined management experience of over 40 years in the areas of financial restructuring and workouts, Legal Outsourcing Group LLC will separate and address the old liabilities and contingencies of City Capital Corporation, so that new management can focus on the further development of our newly expanded subsidiary Strategic Energy and Power. STEP is a Nevada-based subsidiary that designs, manufactures, distributes and installs commercial solar power generating installations and commercial LED lighting systems, using its patented and licensed technologies.

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Octagon Research Solutions, Inc., the leader in transforming clinical R&D through an integrated suite of regulatory, clinical, process and technology solutions, will present this week on the value of strategic staff resourcing and functional partnerships and the latest trends in outsourcing at the Informa Lifecycle Management of the eCTD conference at the Pestana Chelsea Bridge Hotel in London. The session will be held on Wednesday, February 29, 2012 at 10:20 a.m. GMT.

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LISTED DEVELOPER Filinvest Land, Inc. has bagged the build, transfer, and operate (BTO) rights to a 1.2-hectare lot in Cebu City, in a bid to expand its office property portfolio in the area, a disclosure to the local bourse showed on Tuesday.

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American Profit Recovery, a collection agency in Massachusetts with additional offices in Michigan and North Carolina serves businesses of all sizes and consults on how to handle various situations when it comes to accounts receivables.

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Our recent State of Outsourcing study, conducted with the Outsourcing Unit at the London School of Economics, has revealed that nine out of every ten enterprises will be increasing or maintaining their reliance on either, or both, outsourcing and shared services over the next three years. The key is to identify, at the industry level, what factors are influencing these increasingly aggressive approaches to global sourcing strategy.

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Active Operations Management International (AOMi) the UK based leader in service operations management was duly recognized for its contribution to the global BPO industry, at this year’s BPO Excellence Awards, 2012.

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NOTHER official of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) has stressed that the long-term growth prospects of the Philippines will depend on how it addresses its persistent problems, such as unemployment, inadequate infrastructure, environmental degradation and governance.

ADB Vice President Stephen G. Groff, in a speech at a recent forum organized by the Foreign Correspondents Association of the Philippines, noted that the business-process outsourcing (BPO) industry had made a significant contribution to job generation, but it employed only skilled or highly educated workers who represent about 1 percent of the total labor force.

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Ameyo becomes the technology-of-choice for SGC Infotech – a major BPO service provider in Thailand. The latter was looking for a solution that is adaptable to changing market conditions and future growth. With Ameyo as its backend technology, SGC has established itself as a key player in the highly competitive international BPO segment.

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Eldorado (ELDORADO), a division of MphasiS, an HP Company, and a leading provider of health benefit and claims management platforms, announced today that HCC Medical Insurance Services, LLC (HCCMIS), is the third client to go live with Javelina, Eldorado’s award-winning payer platform. HCCMIS is one of the world’s largest web-based insurance providers.

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When the financial outsourcing company Charity Business collapsed earlier this year, scores of charities were left without the data needed to run their organisations. David Ainsworth reports

On 12 January, Charity Business, an outsourcing company offering financial services to charities, sent an email to its estimated 200 clients saying that it was closing with immediate effect. The move came as a bolt from the blue for many of its charity clients, which relied on it for payroll, bookkeeping and accounting services.

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