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High-Tech Investment Funds Getting Fashionable

Economic News / New Technologies / Russia / July 21, 2011

We would like to see Russian money invested in Russian companies, but alas foreign companies may be of greater interest, based on this article published in Moscow Times. High-Tech Investment Funds Getting...


Latvian Software Company AGroup Raised Venture Investment

B2B / Funding News / Latvia / July 21, 2011

AGroup, a personnel management software company headquartered in Riga, Latvia, announced today that it has raised 1.5 million Euros from BaltCap to complete the development of its new product version and convert...


NASA Outsources Space Travel to Russia

Outsourcing / Russia / July 21, 2011

Ok, it is probably not a typical topic of outsourcing to Russia and Eastern Europe and it is only a temporary solution, but NASA does outsource space travel to Russia. With the retirement of the shuttle...


Eastern European BPO Industry Is Growing Despite Competition from India

BPO / Bulgaria / Call Centers / Hungary / Outsourcing / Poland / Romania / July 21, 2011

The Polish business process outsourcing industry grew by 20% last year. McKinsey reported that 33,000 jobs were moved to Eastern Europe in 2010. BPO service providers are growing fast across the region...


Outsourcing of Insurance Business Processes to Eastern Europe

BPO / Call Centers / Romania / July 21, 2011

Natasha Starkell has been interviewed for the article BPO: too far East? The subject of BPO outsourcing for insurance industries is pretty straight forward. Take, for example, the salaries of the insurance...


Are You Bored of Outsourcing PR? Watch This Video

Kosovo / Software Development / July 21, 2011

Digging through mountains of outsourcing companies PR is tiresome. The best press release header can do is to announce the supplier to “top the XYZ outsourcing list”, or “make the top 50 (100,...


Security Company Outsources to Poland. Client Reaction?

Outsourcing / Poland / July 21, 2011

An ultimate example of trust in Eastern European outsourcing arrived on a silver plate. Sonic Wall, the provider of network security and data protection solutions, has just revealed that it has hired a Polish...


EBRD Supports Growth of Knowledge Economy in Bulgaria and Romania

BPO / Bulgaria / Call Centers / Countries / Romania / July 21, 2011

The EBRD, seeking to expand its support to knowledge based investors in Bulgaria and Romania, has signed a €3.0 million equity investment in CallPoint New Europe JSC, a mid-sized provider of business...


Cultural Differences Explained: Indian versus Russian Software Developers

Countries / Russia / Software Development / Ukraine / July 21, 2011

This month an article appeared in Computer Weekly. The same argument for going to Russia and Eastern Europe remains the same. Here is what one of the interviewees, Peter Ingram, IT director at Addison...


Poland May Become the Largest Center of Business Services

BPO / Call Centers / Countries / Outsourcing / Poland / Software Development / July 21, 2011

In 2010 the value of offshoring investments in Eastern Europe grew by 15%. Poland is the fastest growing player in the sector with 20% growth per annum. According to experts ABSL in the next few years...



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