[UPDATE] Time Inc. Layoffs: Publishers, Top Execs at Southern Progress and...
Time Inc. is cutting something like 600 employees, but for the past few weeks it has been doing so in small steps: 10 here, 30 there. That will change today, reports the New York Post’s Keith Kelly,...
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Alcatel-Lucent: Let's Get Small
Alcatel-Lucent, the world’s largest maker of telecommunications equipment, won’t be quite so large come 2009. This morning the struggling Franco-American network supplier said it plans to sack 1,000...
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Weekend Update, 1.31.09
Rumor has it there are big games going on this weekend–at least one of which involves football players. The rest involve the usual players, though they might appear in different positions–and on...
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Tech Job Cuts Upgraded to "Appalling" from "Gruesome"
The first three months of 2009 were brutal ones for the high-tech industry–from a job loss perspective, the worst in seven years. Challenger, Gray & Christmas on Monday said high-tech companies...
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Layoffs at Cisco
The 1,500 to 2,000 job cuts announced during Cisco’s (CSCO) second-quarter earnings call are apparently well under way. Sources say the company is sacking upward of 600 employees at its Silicon Valley...
View ArticleApplied Materials: The Next Tech Layoffs?
In a development that only Scrooge and the Grinch would find amusing, the tech industry has entered into a fevered period of pre-holiday job cuts. In the last few weeks, there have been layoff...
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Sorry, Confidential Corporate Data Are Not Part of Your Severance
Here’s a data point to consider amid the tech sector’s continuing job cuts. According to a new study by Cyber-Ark, many employees leaving their jobs aren’t above adding a little something to their...
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Layoffs at Microsoft
The ax has swung. Layoffs are indeed under way at Microsoft (MSFT). As expected, the cuts are relatively small–in the hundreds globally, according to TechFlash. That’s nowhere near the 5,800 job cuts...
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Merger Opponent Parodies T-Mobile Ads to Attack AT&T Deal
This is the part of any merger fight where reporters’ eyes start to glaze over. Those in favor of the deal have made their case and those against it have made theirs and, quite frankly, it is rare that...
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Nokia Cutting Another 3,500 Jobs, This Time in Manufacturing
Nokia said Thursday that it plans to cut a further 3,500 jobs as it revamps its manufacturing operations as part of its broader strategy shift. The company plans to close a facility in Romania and...
View ArticleAdobe Eliminates 750 Jobs in Restructuring
Adobe Systems said it will cut about 750 jobs in North America and Europe as part of corporate restructuring. The company said it expects to take a restructuring charge of between $87 million to $94...
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Nokia to Cut 4,000 Manufacturing Jobs as It Shifts Production Work
Nokia on Wednesday announced it plans to cut around 4,000 jobs as it reduces production at plants in Hungary, Mexico and Salo, Finland. The three affected plants focus on smartphone production, and...
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Sprint Cuts a Small Number of Jobs as Part of Reorganization
Wireless carrier Sprint Nextel is cutting a small number of jobs as part of a reorganization that began with an executive shuffle last month. Sprint CEO Dan Hesse As part of that move, Sprint combined...
View ArticleNokia Completes Talks on Planned Job Cuts
Nokia Corp., the world’s largest handset maker by shipments, said Thursday it has completed negotiations with its labor unions over jobs cuts at its Salo plant in Finland. The cuts are part of a plan...
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FCC Fires Back at AT&T Over T-Mobile Job Cuts
The Federal Communications Commission rejected the idea, put forth by AT&T earlier on Friday, that job cuts at T-Mobile are a sign that regulators should have allowed its megadeal to proceed. “In a...
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Consumer Cellular to Lease Shuttered T-Mobile Call Center, Hire at Least 650...
At least some of T-Mobile’s laid-off workers may be getting a reprieve. Consumer Cellular said on Wednesday that it will sublease a Redmond, Ore., facility and hire upward of 650 people to work at the...
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Google Taking the Ax to Motorola, Cutting 20 Percent of Staff, or 4,000 Jobs
While still not going into details on its product plans, Google is ready to say one thing about the future of Motorola under its stewardship. It will be a smaller endeavor. The company is cutting...
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T-Mobile Planning Job Cuts Ahead of MetroPCS Deal Closure
Well, it is busy over there at T-Mobile USA. In addition to building out its LTE network, taking out ads punching back at AT&T and completing its deal to merge with MetroPCS, it seems the No. 4....
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HTC Confirms Job Cuts at U.S. Operations
Struggling Taiwanese phone maker HTC cut more than two dozen jobs at its U.S. offices on Friday. The company said in a statement that the cuts were “a decisive action by HTC Corp (US) to streamline and...
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Social Network Path Sends 20 Percent of its Staff Walking
Path confirmed on Tuesday that it is cutting 13 employees, or roughly a fifth of its workforce. “We’re realigning the company to support continued innovation,” a Path representative told AllThingsD....
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