http://www.outsourcebulgaria.com Outsourcing & Offshoring @ Bulgaria Wed, 16 Apr 2008 07:25:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en AP reports on Dalian's ambitions as a new outsourcing capital: Along with SAP, Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM Corp., Britain's BT Group PLC, Japan's Yokogawa Electric Corp. and some 230 other foreign companies have flocked to Dalian in the last decade. Now, a critical mass of development is coming. Ground broke this year ... http://www.outsourcebulgaria.com/archives/china-outsourcing/ This just in from the Sofia Echo: The website of Kendar Holdings, the investment company owned by solicitor Michael Lynn, has been suspended, the Irish Independent reported on October 22 2007. Lynn, who has over 105 properties in Slovakia, Bulgaria, China, Spain, England, Dubai and Ireland, was alleged to have taken out ... http://www.outsourcebulgaria.com/archives/real-estate-investor-disappears/ VMware raised close to a billion USD in an IPO second only to Google in recent IT history. Here's a bit more details on the stock offering and VMware's solutions. Analysts say VMware's shares should soar to a significantly higher value than the opening price. "This could be in the ... http://www.outsourcebulgaria.com/archives/vmware-bullish-ipo/ This is a piece of news that's not outsourcing-related. Since it made CNN's frontpage, however, it's impossible to ignore. Five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor were pardoned by President Georgi Parvanov upon their arrival in Sofia on Tuesday after spending eight-and-a-half years in prison in Libya. The six medics, who were ... http://www.outsourcebulgaria.com/archives/bulgarian-nurses-pardoned/ Bill Burnham has a post that discusses Indian outsourcers and their impact on the free software movement. Let's post the two examples he's giving: For example, one Open Source company mentioned to me that several Indian outsourcers were aggressively using their distributions as way to cheaply prototype solutions for clients without having ... http://www.outsourcebulgaria.com/archives/indian-outsourcers/ US President Bush arrived in Sofia yesterday. The scoop from the International Herald Tribune (AP): In Sofia, thousands of Bulgarians — many waving small American flags — lined the cobblestone main street through Nevsky Square as an honor guard played both countries' national anthems. Bush greeted Bulgarian soldiers who have served ... http://www.outsourcebulgaria.com/archives/bush-visits-bulgaria/ Vietnam is holding general elections on Sunday. The ruling Communist party (I mean Workers party!) is the undisputed leader. Less than 20% of the candidates are NOT members of the Communist Party, so the result cannot be that surprising. In the mean time, courts have put on trial and jailed a ... http://www.outsourcebulgaria.com/archives/vietnam-elections-and-outsourcing/ Outsourcing certain IT functions is one thing, outsourcing local journalism seems quite another. This ad has been generating a media storm: We seek a newspaper journalist based in India to report on the city government and political scene of Pasadena, California, USA. Here's the gist of the story from Yahoo News: Outsourcing first ... http://www.outsourcebulgaria.com/archives/outsourcing-local-journalism/ World of Warcraft has been a million-dollar business for Blizzard but it's a million-dollar business for companies who sell WoW gold, accounts, and more. Game outsourcing has been here ever since Ultima Online came out more than a decade ago. Diablo 2 item trading was quite a big business but ... http://www.outsourcebulgaria.com/archives/bbc-on-wow-outsourcing/ Ubisoft might be expanding their Bulgarian operations but this isn't the game outsourcing I'm talking about. A new wave of game outsourcing has sprung - mainly on the back of MMOs and has risen to prominence with Blizzard's blockbuster MMO - World of Warcraft. The game has claimed seven million lives ... http://www.outsourcebulgaria.com/archives/game-outsourcing/