Outsourcing is a race to the bottom. The US will assume the same living standards as countries we outsource to, rather than them raising to our level.
One of the largest accounting firms in the USA, with IT headquarters in Tampa,  has outsourced thousands of jobs to India and south America for the last few years. Yesterday another 500 employees got the dreaded phone call that they had been fired. Many of them will have to spend their last months training their outsourced replacement before having to pack their skills and go. Needless to say it will be difficult for the latest victims of outsourcing to find a new job in this economy. A new report released by InformationWeek draws the conclusion that one of the top three reasons to why the US will loose its position as global IT innovation leader.  
Share how outsourcing have affected your life on http://www.igotoutsourced.com

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The Swedish Company PRQ, www.prq.se, owned by amongst others Gottfrid Svartholm and Fredrik Neij from Pirate Bay is hosting the web site Wiki Leaks that published the video of American military shooting civilans and a Reuter journalist and his driver in the Iraqi suburb New Baghdad in 2007. The video contains amongst other the US armys recordings of the communications amongst the soldiers in the helicopter that shot and killad a group of civilians and injured two children. In the recordings one of the soldiers in the helicopter is laughing when an injured man who is trying to crawl away from the scene is run over by a US tank. Click here to watch the video http://www.wikileaks.org/.

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Norwegian brothers, Ivar the president of SBTA and Ivar the Nobel Prize winner.

During the first power luncheon of 2010, SBTA elected a new board and declared that they will launch a new web site within a week.  I am looking forward to an updated and fresh look together with added functionality of the SBTA web. The 1973 Nobel Prize winner in physics, Ivar Giaever made a highly appreciated presentation of his way to the Nobel Prize.  

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Florida Technology Journal is hosting a mingle event at One Urban Center in Tampa. Sounds like a lot of fun to get to know other techies around Tampa Bay.
I will be there for sure.  

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First power lunch and annual meeting of SBTA will take place Friday January 29th at 11.45 am. The price for the lunch is $20.
Place: Landry's Seafood House, 7116 W Courtney Campbell Cswy, Tampa, FL 33607
Send reservations and questions  about the 2010 membership to info@scandbalt,org

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GM is trying to get the most out of their sale of SAAB by using media for a public auction of the brand. One day the Swedish part of the company will be liquidated and the other day Spyker are ready to buy. Customary for American companies the bottom line counts and employees and other small businesses affected by their descison does not matter. They ignore the stressed out employees in Sweden that are being torn apart from not knowing from day to day if they will have a job with SAAB in the nearest future. Media is happy to participate in playing these games and help GM to up the bids for SAAB, this is about the bottom line for the media as well, they make money from news. Even if SAAB gets a new owner I doubt they will take over the 2000 employees in Sweden, a new owner will slim and trim the company in order to make it profitable.

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Read more about the SBTAs fall program. The SBTA luncheons is a popular meeting place for the Scandinavian movers and shakers of Tampa Bay.
                                                                   

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