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Increasing interest in cloud computing and software-as-a-service is leading more companies to consider outsourcing IT functions, including data management. IT Business Edge blogger Loraine Lawson last month wrote about a mid-sized Louisiana company that outsourced fully half of its IT in this way. Its CIO couldn’t say enough good things about the initiative. Integration was […]

Based on the wildly disparate numbers offered in a couple surveys released earlier this year, it’s hard to know how many U.S. companies send work offshore.
Just 6 percent of respondents to a Robert Half Technology survey said their companies offshored at least some tasks. This number struck many industry observers as awfully low, with some […]

As I’ve written before, Google expects its employees to work pretty much all the time, and fills its offices with free gourmet food and other perks to entice them to do so. And Google isn’t the only tech workplace with these kinds of expectations. More than a few employees of start-ups pride themselves on all-night […]

In late 2007, Intel Chairman Craig Barrett wrote an angry op-ed piece in which he lambasted the U.S. government for its inaction on immigration reform and lauded the European Union for its proposed Blue Card, a renewable two-year visa that would in theory make it easier for foreign workers to seek work in EU countries.
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Though it’s hard to see how a loss of 20,000 jobs could be a good thing, that’s largely how the media portrayed it Friday after the Labor Department released its employment statistics for April. The news does sound downright positive considering that most economists expected job losses to be closer to 80,000.
The numbers shook out […]