Nearshore Journal

AT&T (NYSE: T) has put its sale of its domestic Japanese outsourcing services operations to Internet Initiative Japan Inc. (IIJI) (Nasdaq: IIJI) to bed.
The deal, which was originally announced in June, calls for AT&T to transfer about 1,600 domestic Japanese business customers and about 245 customer support employees to IIJI.
Regardless of the sale, AT&T plans [...]

By Kathrin Hille in Beijing
Published: August 31 2010 09:25 | Last updated: September 1 2010 00:19
NEC has agreed to set up a joint venture with Neusoft, China’s largest IT outsourcing provider, to offer cloud computing services in the country, the Japanese electronics company’s first move to offer such services outside its home market.
The venture reflects [...]

INDIAN IT services company HCL Technologies is looking to build on its recent US$110 million outsourcing and services contract win with Singapore Exchange to enhance its presence in the city-state and the region.
Singapore is HCL’s regional headquarters and caters to markets stretching from Japan all the way up to the Middle East and Africa – [...]

India’s information technology outsourcing companies have established global footprints that stretch from Saudi Arabia to San Diego in the US. Yet they have struggled to develop one of the most promising markets, just over the Himalaya mountains in neighbouring China.
So difficult a frontier is the Chinese market for India’s pioneering outsourcing groups that their leaders [...]

By Goutam Das
Bangalore: TCS will take its revolutionary cloud services for small and medium businesses (SMBs) through top channel partners and solution providers. The firm has been tapping a segment known as ‘value-added resellers’ who may be allowed to keep 10% commission for every sale made, sources said.
Cloud services, which are expected to lower cost [...]

Exports up 38% but imports hurt by slowdown in investment
(BEIJING) China’s trade surplus surged unexpectedly in July to an 18-month high of US$28.7 billion as exports beat forecasts, but a government-induced slowdown in investment took a toll on imports.
Beijing is steering its super-loose monetary and fiscal policies back to normal after a record surge in [...]

Aditya Birla Minacs, the business process outsourcing (BPO) arm of the  USD 28 billion Aditya Birla Group, expanded its operations in Eastern India with the inauguration of its 31st and 32rd delivery centers in Kolkata and Ranchi respectively.Both the facilities were inaugurated by Navanit Narayan, chief service delivery officer, Idea Cellular Ltd, said a press [...]