Outsourcing

Barbara Ehrenreich: Your Local News - Dateline Delhi

Posted by Jeff from Yahoo News!

Now comes the news that pasadenanow.com, a local news site, is recruiting reporters in India. The website's editor points out that he can get two Indian reporters for a mere $20,800 a year - and no, they won't be commuting from New Delhi. Since Pasadena's city council meetings can be observed on the web, the Indian reporters will be able to cover local politics from half the planet away

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The Corner Office in Bangalore

Posted by Billbar from New York Times

Given the importance placed on performing well in science and math in countries like China and India, it would be more likely that an offshored chief executive would have had a rigorous technical education instead of degrees in the "softer" management disciplines that are common at American business schools.

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Ogre to Slay? Outsource It to Chinese

Posted by Jeff from New York Times

Video game sweatshops emerge in China. SciFi comes to life. Amazing article on chinese farmers being hired by Americans over the internet to play video games.

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Microsoft to invest $1.7 billion, add 3,000 jobs in India, Gates says

Posted by Jeff from Seattle Times

Now it's out in the open - MS making larger investment in India than in the Pacific Northwest. They've been dodgy about this and denied it until now.

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Boeing says strike changed nothing, but analysts foresee more outsourcing

Posted by Jeff from Seattle Times

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