Florida-based mobile app company mulls Jamaican-based BPO outfit

TECH NEWS –Jamaica has the third-largest English-speaking population in the Western Hemisphere and is in the same time zone as the US East Coast, making it an attractive outsourcing destination, reckons David Mullings, the executive chairman of Apptitude that is evaluating the business processing outsourcing industry.

APPTITUDE Mobile, a Florida-based mobile application firm, is mulling over investing in Montego Bay’s business processing industry (BPO) by the end of summer.

It hasn’t yet decided whether it will put equity in an existing facility or open its own office, but the business will require at least 20 programmers and designers within two years. The jobs would mainly require creating blueprints for applications and coding, so workers would need to be versed in developing for iOS and Android.

“But there are other scenarios where it scales quicker, especially if we buy an equity stake in an existing company, instead of expending capital to set up our own office,” said David Mullings, executive chairman of Appitude. More