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Friday, November 20, 2009

Nokia R&D Workers Researching and Developing New Job Leads

LAYOFFS_BOBS_THUMBNokia’s workforce is deteriorating nearly as fast as its share of the mobile phone market. This morning, the company–which sacked 1,700 employees in March and another 450 in April–said it will cut 330 more jobs in its research and development group.

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Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Sony Ericsson to Sack 2,000

LAYOFFS_BOBS_THUMB Given its recent string of lousy financial reports, its weak platform strategy and declining share of the the global handset market, I suppose it was only a matter of time before Sony Ericsson began sacking employees again. And it did just that this morning, announcing plans to shutter its Research Triangle Park facility in North Carolina, as well as offices in Miami, India and Sweden.

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Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Adobe Sacks Nine Percent of Workforce

LAYOFFS_BOBS_THUMB11Add Adobe to the fast-growing list of tech companies sacking employees in November. In an 8-K filing today with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Adobe said it will cut nine percent of its workforce–approximately 680 jobs.

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Clearwire Raises $1.5 Billion–None of It from Google

clearwireHow quickly Sprint has gone from cutting jobs to cutting checks. Not 24 hours after announcing plans to sack between 2,000 and 25,000 employees, the company said it has agreed to invest another $1.18 billion in WiMax provider Clearwire. That’s a big check to be writing, but then, Sprint is Clearwire’s majority shareholder and the carrier’s plans for differentiated 4G services rely heavily on the outfit’s success.

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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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Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Do You, Uh, Y!hoo?

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Thursday, September 10, 2009

Oracle: IBM, Come Out to Play-ee-ay

oracleadthumbOracle has a message for CIOs concerned about its plans for Sun’s hardware, Solaris and SPARC businesses: Relax. In a full-page ad published in The Wall Street Journal today, the database giant made a very public commitment to all of them.

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Thursday, July 30, 2009

Sony Still Losing Steam

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Sony Celebrates 30th Anniversary of Walkman With Lousy Earnings

walkmantps-l2 More bad news from Sony. This morning the electronics giant posted its second straight quarterly loss and reiterated its forecast for another year of red ink. Clearly, Sony must do more than just slash jobs and suppliers if it ever hopes to regain its position in the market.

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Monday, July 27, 2009

Layoffs, Palm Pre Coming to Verizon

largest-axe3jpg-150x150jpg1This recession is a long way from over if Verizon’s latest earnings are anything to judge by. Reporting second-quarter earnings that were a penny better than the 62 cents per share Wall Street had been expecting, the company said it suffered a nasty 21 percent drop in profit thanks to the econalypse, which is pinching enterprise customers pretty hard these days.

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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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Tuesday, June 23, 2009

MySpace | A Place for Layoffs, Redux

largest-axe3jpg-150x150jpg1MySpace has extended its war on bloat overseas. This morning the company announced plans to close at least four of its offices outside the U.S. in a bid to reduce costs. Some 300 of the company’s 450 international employees will lose their jobs as a result.

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