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Twenty years ago, an American political scientist named Joseph Nye proposed the concept of soft power. “Soft power” is a set of cultural, economic and ideological values that allows states to influence other countries, or even the entire planet. Clear examples of soft power are jeans, Coca-Cola, rock and roll and Hollywood’s Dream Factory, which [...]
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Russian President Vladimir Putin last week led a supervisory meeting of Russia’s Agency for Strategic Initiatives (ASI) on the creation of new funding structures that will provide government financing to new IT projects. According to the Kremlin press service the agency, “will focus on the organization of a dedicated fund for the selection and funding [...]
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Russian company Yandex, which owns the Yandex Internet portal, has revealed details of its sale of shares in Israeli software developer Face.com. Last summer Face.com was acquired by the Facebook social network, but the terms of the deal were not made public. At the time of the sale, Yandex owned 18 percent of Face.com. For [...]
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News360, a Russian start-up operating from Moscow and Silicon Valley, was honored last week in the mobile content portion of the World Summit Award (WSA). The company was recognized as having the best M-media and news project among the entrants. News360 offers a set of mobile apps which filter and stream news content based on [...]
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The International Association of Outsourcing Professionals (IAOP) has released its list of companies included on the 2013 Global Outsourcing 100 ranking of the world’s top outsourcing providers. The ranking is an independent assessment of the capabilities of outsourcing service providers and advisors. This year seven Russian companies including Artezio, Auriga, EPAM Systems, First Line Software, [...]
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Miratech, a leading IT outsourcing provider, has been named as one of the Global Outsourcing 100® service providers by the International Association of Outsourcing Professionals® (IAOP®). IAOP is the leading global standard-setting organization and advocate for the outsourcing profession with a worldwide community of more than 120,000 members and affiliates. IAOP annually conducts an independent [...]
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The first time Javier Bofarull Marques left Spain for Poland, it was for love. It was 2006, a boom time in Spain, and his friends thought he was crazy. He recently moved back to the Eastern European country and it was for a job this time because Spain’s economic crisis left him unable to find [...]
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The classical values of outsourcing are stronger than ever: cost, standardization and global delivery, according to “2013 State of outsourcing” Study, conducted by KPMG. But before make a decision to outsource your IT tasks, we suggest you to pay your attention on those few points . 1. Costs reducing. According to research, the most important [...]
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Mellon Poland is among the finalists announced for the first “Poland Outsourcing and Shared Services Awards”. The firm has been nominated under the “Best BPO Firm of the Year” category. First time in Poland an international jury of 21 outsourcing industry experts have evaluated 125 competing firms, cities and people. The event’s purpose was to [...]
Continue reading Serbian Government Presented A Program Of Support For Start-Ups And It Industry
February 12, 2013 No Comment
The Serbian government today introduced a program of state support for IT sector . The program consists of four segments – startups, outsourcing, development and export of original software products and development centers of large multinational companies, according Startit.rs. The program also provides tax breaks for companies engaged in the production of software and software [...]
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