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Paul Herdsman Of NICE Global: The Benefits Of Utilizing Nearshore Outsourcing For Your Business

YoungUpstarts

Put simply, offshore outsourcing means hiring a company to perform a service from a different part of the world. Usually, these offshore suppliers are in Asia, (India, Afghanistan, Malaysia, China, Vietnam and the Philippines), Eastern Europe (Russia, Romania, Bulgaria, Armenia), or Africa (Morocco, Kenya and South Africa).

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[Singapore] Remote, Freelance, Online Work Taking Off Here

YoungUpstarts

On the sidelines of Crowdsourcing Week , freelance staffing site Elance.com ‘s Kjetil Olsen, its vice president for Europe, shared the results of its most recent Global Online Employment report. India and the Philippines had the largest number of freelancers at 340,890 and 85,621 freelancers respectively.

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Boom and Bust and What Comes Next

Scalable Startup

While the global financial crash of 2008 and the resulting Great Recession initially slowed job growth in Silicon Valley, the meteoric rise of smart phones and social media helped the tech industry as a whole to power ahead despite the near collapse of the global economy. A Variation on the Global Economic Crash of 2008?