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Thursday, November 5, 2009

RealNetworks’s Internal Layoff Memo

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Earlier today, Kara Swisher reported in BoomTown that RealNetworks would sack four percent of its workforce–70 employees out of its 1,700-person staff. After the jump, the official internal memo from RealNetworks Founder, Chairman and CEO Rob Glaser, breaking the bad news.

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Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Another Bloodletting at Microsoft

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Microsoft Sacks 800 [UPDATED]

LAYOFFS_BOBS_THUMB “We are mostly but not all done” with layoffs. So said Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer in May at the start of a second round of cuts that claimed the livelihoods of some 3,000 employees. Now, six months later, the company is finishing the job. Sources tell TechFlash that Microsoft will make additional job reductions this week–beginning as early as today.

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Tuesday, November 3, 2009

China Unicom: 5000 iPhones Sold So Far

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Nokia Siemens Announces Ambitious Employee Sacking Plan

largest-axe3jpg-150x150jpgThey’re swinging the ax over at Nokia Siemens again. The mobile network equipment maker said today that it plans to reduce its 64,000-strong workforce by up to nine percent in a bid to “improve financial performance and return to growth”–something the joint venture has had a hard time doing since it launched in February 2007.

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Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Sun to Sack 3,000

ellison_sundogUgly news. The end of Sun Microsystems as an independent company after 27 years is to be prefaced with a bloodletting. And a big one too. The company is sacking some 3,000 employees as it awaits the closing of Oracle’s planned $7.4 billion takeover.

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Thursday, October 8, 2009

Feds Launch Antitrust Probe of IBM

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Dell Adds 905 Employees to North Carolina Labor Pool

largest-axe3jpg-150x150jpgSo much for Dell’s personal computer manufacturing operations in the United States. On Wednesday, the PC maker said it would close its plant in Winston-Salem, N.C., as part of a long-term restructuring that will see it cut costs by $4 billion by the end of fiscal 2011. Over 900 employees will lose their jobs as a result.

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Wednesday, September 23, 2009

USB Group Says iTunes Can Block Pre

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Thursday, August 20, 2009

Apple CEO to Palm: I’ll Quit Sniffing Your Org Chart if You Quit Sniffing Mine

steve_jobs_jaccuseApple appears to have a particular affinity for the unwritten no-poaching agreements said to be so popular among the nation’s biggest tech companies. Earlier this summer, the New York Times reported that Apple may have quietly negotiated an agreement with Google not to hire away each other’s top talent. Now, Bloomberg claims that the company attempted to win a similar commitment from Palm, but was rebuffed.

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Thursday, August 6, 2009

Confirmed: Layoffs at RealNetworks’ Rhapsody

largest-axe3jpg-150x150jpgThe ax is swinging at Rhapsody America. The subscription music service, a joint venture between RealNetworks and Viacom subsidiary MTV Networks, is sacking nine percent of its employees, mostly in editorial.

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Friday, July 17, 2009

IBM Shrugs Off Econalypse

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Thursday, July 16, 2009

IBM Doing Just Fine Without All Those Employees It Sacked, Redux

IBM had a very good second quarter, all things considered. The company reported earnings that trounced analysts’ estimates and raised its full-year earnings forecast. Earnings were $2.32 per share, up from $1.97 per share in the same period last year, and well above the $2.02 per share the Street was looking for.

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Layoffs at Cisco

The 1,500 to 2,000 job cuts announced during Cisco’s second-quarter earnings call are apparently well under way. Sources say the company is sacking upward of 600 employees at its Silicon Valley headquarters today.

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Pink-Slip Thursday at Cisco

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