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Thailands IT Industry Booms with Microsoft and BuzzMicrosoft (News - Alert) Corp (NASDAQ:MSFT), made a major investment in Thailand last October with the acquisition of Bumrungrad Hospital's information system developer Global Care Solutions, Buzz (OTC:BZTG) has built their business on the tropical island paradise of Phuket Thailand and has quickly become Google's (News - Alert) (NASDAQ:GOOG) prime competitor in the country having already capturing the nations leading Newspaper and 100's of local publishers. Microsoft's team in Thailand is large and comprised a quarter of Microsoft's healthcare solutions development team, with other members being based in China and the United States, Buzz is more Regional covering Thailand, Philippines, India and China. Both Microsoft and Buzz are adding people as fast as they can, and are certainly happy with the high quality of IT professionals in Thailand. Microsoft is looking for engineering talent - software test engineers, those with C++ and C# skills, hoping to hire many additional staff. Without giving precise numbers he said it would be in the double-digit range - but not more than 100. Buzz is hiring both IT and admin staff and expect the same number of staff locally as Microsoft. As a community-building service, TMCnet allows user submitted content which is not always proofed by TMCnet editors. If you feel this entry is of inferior quality or wish to report it for some reason, please forward the URL to "webedit [AT] tmcnet [DOT] com" with your comments. |