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		<title>Why Intel&#8217;s Andy Grove is right (and so completely wrong) about US Jobs</title>
		<link>http://outsourceportfolio.com/intels-andy-grove-completely-wrong-us-jobs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 15:04:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JohnU</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Andy Grove, the businessman and entrepreneur who built Intel into what it is today, has written a thought provoking opinion piece for Bloomberg about making (or perhaps re-making) jobs in America where he argued that the USA should levy an extra tax on the use of offshore labor and if this results in a trade [...]


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		<title>Java &amp; MySQL Thrive Under Oracle</title>
		<link>http://outsourceportfolio.com/report-java-mysql-oracle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jul 2010 15:05:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jacob Cherian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to a recent developer survey finding from Jaspersoft, an open-source business intelligence supplier, there has been little damage done by the acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle. The report reiterates that Java and MySQL appear to be doing well n their abode.
In fact, these results contrast the happenings in OpenSolaris, under Oracle, which is [...]


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		<title>Outsourcing IT Makes Horse Sense</title>
		<link>http://outsourceportfolio.com/outsourcing-horse-sense/</link>
		<comments>http://outsourceportfolio.com/outsourcing-horse-sense/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 13:16:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jacob Cherian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite the controversy regarding outsourcing, IT outsourcing is catching on among U.S. firms. There are a few reasons why.
Firstly, IT is something not everyone is good at. To put it another way most companies do not have the talent pool inhouse to assign IT projects. This would translate to hiring permanent staff to fill these [...]


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		<title>Outsource yourself to China as a fake white executive</title>
		<link>http://outsourceportfolio.com/exporting-china-fake-white-executive/</link>
		<comments>http://outsourceportfolio.com/exporting-china-fake-white-executive/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 08:28:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JohnU</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[ceo outsource]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[CNBC plus the Atlantic Monthly have reported about another odd story involving “fakes” and China, only this time its not fake DVDs or purses but fake white executives. Apparently, white guys from the USA and other Western countries are being hired there as fake executives in order to bring the appearance of the Western world [...]


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		<title>The BP oil spill disaster: How not to outsource</title>
		<link>http://outsourceportfolio.com/bp-oil-spill-disaster-outsource/</link>
		<comments>http://outsourceportfolio.com/bp-oil-spill-disaster-outsource/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 09:51:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JohnU</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stefan Stern has recently written a thought provoking column for the Financial Times about BP and the trouble with outsourcing. And although Stern is clearly a critic of outsourcing, the whole BP Gulf of Mexico disaster clearly showed how not to outsource and what can happen when the unexpected is not taken into consideration when [...]


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		<title>Will the Indian state fix or further strangle its education system?</title>
		<link>http://outsourceportfolio.com/indian-state-fix-strangle-education-system/</link>
		<comments>http://outsourceportfolio.com/indian-state-fix-strangle-education-system/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2010 13:09:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JohnU</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Barun S. Mitra has recently written a thought provoking op-ed in the Wall Street Journal about how the Indian State is trying to regulate innovation out of the educational system by strangulating it. To first put things in perspective, Mitra acknowledges that India’s education system and its engineering schools in particular produce some of the [...]


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		<title>Does US want or need Indian brainpower?</title>
		<link>http://outsourceportfolio.com/us-indian-brainpower/</link>
		<comments>http://outsourceportfolio.com/us-indian-brainpower/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 12:24:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JohnU</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In early 2009, a Washington Post article by Vivek Wadhwa about the reverse brain drain in the USA mentioned fed up would-be immigrant Girija Subramaniam – an Indian who earned her master’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Virginia in 1998 and then joined Texas Instruments as a test engineer. She had wanted [...]


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		<title>Outsourcing Benefits Both Service Providers And Buyers</title>
		<link>http://outsourceportfolio.com/outsourcing-benefits-service-providers-buyers/</link>
		<comments>http://outsourceportfolio.com/outsourcing-benefits-service-providers-buyers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jun 2010 21:45:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jacob Cherian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Outsourcing has become a phenomenon of the present and it is popular among those offering services and the firms that are buying services from outsourcing locations.
Outsourcing to India has been a strong trend in the last ten to twenty years. Despite a glitch in the economy, outsourcing has maintained fairly stable amounts of growth during [...]


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		<title>Arkansas politicians debate India and the question: What is outsourcing?</title>
		<link>http://outsourceportfolio.com/arkansas-politicians-debate-india-question-outsourcing/</link>
		<comments>http://outsourceportfolio.com/arkansas-politicians-debate-india-question-outsourcing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 11:10:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JohnU</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a close Senate primary election in the home state of Bill Clinton and Walmart, two politicians are debating India and the question: What is outsourcing? Of course the answer naturally depends upon which politician you are: Sen. Blanche Lincoln or Lt. Gov. Bill Halter.
To put things in perspective, Sen. Blanche Lincoln, a relatively moderate [...]


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		<title>More political grandstanding: Senator Charles Schumer proposes an offshore call center tax</title>
		<link>http://outsourceportfolio.com/political-grandstanding-senator-charles-schumer-proposes-offshore-call-center-tax/</link>
		<comments>http://outsourceportfolio.com/political-grandstanding-senator-charles-schumer-proposes-offshore-call-center-tax/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jun 2010 14:01:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JohnU</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, it was reported that Democratic Senator Charles Schumer from New York would introduce a bill that would force companies to inform customers when their calls are transferred outside the United States and then charge companies a tax for those calls transferred offshore. The proposed bill would impose a tax of $0.25 per off shored [...]


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