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The HP Way: Shareholders get dividends, employees get pink slips

Posted May 23, 2012 - 1:28 pm

Hewlett-Packard is expected on Wednesday to announce the layoff of up to 30,000 workers, even as it continues to pay out regular dividends on 2 billion shares of common stock.
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Don't call it widescreen: rumors abound about the next iPhone ratio

Posted May 23, 2012 - 11:15 am

Google might be getting its layoff machine rolling again, Samsung’s stylus-oriented Galaxy Note tablet is due soon, and Apple, dear Apple, is having its video ambitions debated in a wide public rumor exchange. Let’s get into this Wednesday’s rumor roundup!
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T-Mobile to close call centers employing 3,300 workers

Posted March 23, 2012 - 12:46 pm

T-Mobile USA on Friday announced it would lay off up to 3,300 employees as part of a move to close down some call centers.
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'Deep' layoffs expected at Yahoo

Posted March 5, 2012 - 3:44 pm

All Things Digital reports that major layoffs are in the works at Yahoo as new CEO Scott Thompson tries to revive the struggling Internet pioneer.
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Amid a recovery, tech layoffs

Posted February 29, 2012 - 12:04 pm

The economy may be in a slow recovery and unemployment down, but layoffs in the tech sector are still a reality.
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Yahoo bracing for employee exodus?

Posted December 5, 2011 - 12:53 pm

Many Yahoo employees plan to jump ship early next year, according to the Wall Street Journal.
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At least Nokia didn't say it was 'right-sizing'

Posted September 29, 2011 - 5:24 pm

The Finnish mobile phone maker announces 3,500 layoffs on top of the 4,000 announced in April. There'll be more.
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Tough-love suggestions for Yahoo from a former insider

Posted September 9, 2011 - 7:14 pm

Nathan Richardson, former GM of Yahoo Finance, suggests some bitter medicine for Yahoo.
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Laid-off RIM workers pay for incompetence of co-CEOs

Posted July 25, 2011 - 11:58 am

About 2,000 Research in Motion employees are losing their jobs, while the two co-CEOs who steered the BlackBerry maker's ship into the rocks stay on.
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Cisco to cut workforce by nearly 10%

Posted July 19, 2011 - 2:46 pm

Cisco Systems plans to eliminate 6,500 full-time jobs in an effort to cut $1 billion in annual operating expenses
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H-1B visas really do drive down salaries and deprive U.S. IT workers of jobs

Posted July 13, 2011 - 4:15 pm

Neither U.S. nor foreign workers is going to win the fight over H-1B visas. Employers have already won,depressing salaries on both sides and cheating on a law designed to be hard to enforce.
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Cisco acknowledges killing Flip cam didn't solve finances; may cut 10,000 jobs

Posted July 12, 2011 - 2:12 pm

Everything in the IT industry is about networking right now. Cloud, virtualization, mobile, security, Internet, web dev -- everything. So why is the networking leader cutting 14 percent of workforce?
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Report: Cisco may cut up to 10,000 jobs

Posted July 12, 2011 - 1:53 pm

Struggling networking equipment vendor might cut 10,000 jobs through layoffs, early-retirement buyouts, Bloomberg reports.
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Is Cisco set to slash 5,000 jobs?

Posted July 11, 2011 - 5:49 pm

Cisco Systems might have to cut 5,000 jobs to meet its previous expense-reduction targets, an analyst told clients in a note Monday.
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Suit charges Sony laid off security before big hack, spent only protect itself afterward

Posted July 1, 2011 - 2:41 pm

One of 19 lawsuits filed following the Sony hacks charged Sony shored up security only on the internal network used by employees.
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Cisco's new 'streamlined' structure won't matter until it produces results

Posted May 5, 2011 - 11:46 am

Cisco Systems on Thursday announced it will dramatically change its business structure and operations.
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For Flip fans, on top of devastation, tragedy

Posted April 15, 2011 - 3:53 pm

It's always a mistake to develop an emotional attachment to an electronic device. You put yourself at the mercy of the manufacturer's whims as well as market dynamics.
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Not a Flip question, Cisco

Posted April 12, 2011 - 11:56 pm

To absolutely no one's surprise, Cisco Systems on Tuesday announced it would cease making the popular Flip camcorder, a consumer product no longer seen by CEO John Chambers as fitting into the networking equipment giant's core mission.
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The AOL Way: Layoffs, lies about 'quality content'

Posted March 10, 2011 - 4:40 pm

According to a memo from AOL chief executive Tim Armstrong that was leaked to Business Insider, nearly 900 workers are being laid off Thursday in the wake of the company's acquisition of online tabloid The Huffington Post.
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News Corp. to auction off MySpace on eBay

Posted February 3, 2011 - 12:10 pm

OK, maybe I'm jumping the gun with the eBay thing, but at this point News Corp. has to put everything on the table because Myspace is sinking faster than Sarah Palin's presidential prospects.
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Yahoo sneaks in some more layoffs ahead of earnings

Posted January 25, 2011 - 3:08 pm

Yahoo may have problems increasing revenue and stock price, but it's become a well-oiled layoff machine.
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News Corp. so confident about MySpace comeback that they're trying to dump it

Posted January 13, 2011 - 2:21 pm

Apparently Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. isn't all that into "agile and flexible." Or maybe it's the "unprofitable" part of MySpace that's prompting its parent company to unload the troubled former leader in social networking.
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Myspace as cautionary tale

Posted January 11, 2011 - 5:15 pm

Three years ago Myspace was on top of the social networking world. Now it's fighting for survival. There's a lesson in this for other Internet properties, including Facebook.
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Post-layoffs, Yahoo marketers focus on the important things -- logos for cube signage and screen savers!

Posted December 17, 2010 - 6:25 pm

The Yahoo leaks just keep a-comin'. The latest concerns an elaborate slide presentation on the company's "Corporate Identity." But it's not quite what you might think.
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A glimpse of what's next to go at Yahoo

Posted December 16, 2010 - 6:42 pm

Just two days after Yahoo announced the layoff of 650 employees -- about 4 percent of its workforce -- another shoe appears to be dropping. And this one will land squarely on a number of web-based services that are familiar names to millions of Internet users.
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