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		<title>Let Someone Else Take Your Calls</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you are running a business, you hope to be busy all the time: making sales, connecting with people, planning &#8230; doing the work! Even with mobile phones you cannot be in a position to take every phone call that comes through to your business. But if you miss a call, you might be missing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Outsource everything</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Outsourcing might seem like a necessary evil - a cost-cutting strategy that guts quality control and invites theft of both intellectual and physical property. But outsourcing makes Paul Carpenter&#8217;s business work. 
&#34;There&#8217;s no reason we should do it all,&#34; he says. &#34;We do what we&#8217;re best at - and have other firms handle the rest.&#34; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Circuit City files for bankruptcy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) &#8212; Circuit City Stores Inc., the No. 2 electronics seller after Best Buy, filed for bankruptcy protection Monday, thus becoming the latest retailer hurt by a worsening economic downturn.
According to the company&#8217;s Chapter 11 filing with the U.S. bankruptcy court in Richmond, Va., Circuit City (CC, Fortune 500), which currently has 566 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.outsourcetalk.net/2008/11/10/news/circuit-city-files-for-bankruptcy/</link>
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		<title>Craigslist agrees to crack down on erotic ads</title>
		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK, Nov 6 (Reuters) - Craigslist, the popular Internet classifieds listing service, agreed on Thursday to crack down on advertisements posted by prostitutes in a pact struck with 40 U.S. states.
The listings site has been under pressure to screen out cyber advertisements that offer sexual services. These listings have given prostitutes easy access to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.outsourcetalk.net/2008/11/06/news/craigslist-agrees-to-crack-down-on-erotic-ads/</link>
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		<title>Fiserv Acquires The Data Center from Compass Bank</title>
		<description><![CDATA[BROOKFIELD, Wis. &#8211;(Business Wire)&#8211; Fiserv, Inc. (NASDAQ: FISV), a leading provider of information technology services to the financial industry, today announced it has acquired The Data Center (TDC) based in Grapevine, Texas, from Compass Bank.Terms of the sale were not disclosed.
TDC was a licensee and reseller of the Fiserv ITI Premier(R) core banking system, which [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.outsourcetalk.net/2008/11/03/general-outsourcing/fiserv-acquires-the-data-center-from-compass-bank/</link>
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		<title>Delta buys Northwest to create biggest airline</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Delta Air Lines swallowed rival Northwest Airlines Inc on Wednesday in a $2.6 billion merger that created the world&#8217;s biggest airline and prompted new speculation about further industry consolidation.
The all-stock transaction, the first domestic airline combination in three years, closed after clearing its biggest and last regulatory hurdle earlier in the day &#8212; U.S. Justice [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.outsourcetalk.net/2008/10/29/news/taiwan-cbank-cuts-rates-joins-global-move/</link>
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		<title>Microsoft&#8217;s Cloud Will Be Profitable, Executive Says</title>
		<description><![CDATA[October 28, 2008: 09:57 AM EST
LOS ANGELES -(Dow Jones)- Microsoft&#8217;s newly announced &#34;cloud computing&#34; platform, Windows Azure, will be profitable for the company, the executive who runs its server business said Monday.
&#34;We will wind up having a business model that we think will be profitable,&#34; Bob Muglia said, although he added that building out the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Asian markets slide on glum corporate outlook</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Crude Oil Falls as Waning Demand Outweighs Prospect of OPEC Cut 

Oct. 22 (Bloomberg) &#8212; Crude oil fell for a second day as weakening fuel demand outweighed prospects of a production cut by OPEC at a meeting this week. 
U.S. gasoline demand has declined for the past six months and China&#8217;s economy has slowed amid [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.outsourcetalk.net/2008/10/22/news/asian-markets-slide-on-glum-corporate-outlook/</link>
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		<title>Bernanke: It&#8217;s time for stimulus plan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Fed chief says lawmakers should consider another plan to boost economy. He cites risk of &#8216;protracted slowdown.&#8217;
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) &#8212; Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke testified Monday that Congress should consider passing a new stimulus package to try to jump start the economy.
Bernanke, speaking before the House Budget Committee, came just short of an outright [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.outsourcetalk.net/2008/10/20/news/bernanke-its-time-for-stimulus-plan/</link>
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		<title>Markets begin to recover after global rate cuts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A degree of calm returned to the world&#8217;s stockmarkets today following yesterday&#8217;s coordinated global rate cut.
In London, the FTSE 100 jumped more than 3% at one stage this morning to a high of 4512, up 145 points, and was up 82 points mid-afternoon. Banks continued to recover following the UK goverment&#8217;s &#163;500bn rescue plan announced [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.outsourcetalk.net/2008/10/09/news/markets-begin-to-recover-after-global-rate-cuts/</link>
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