Fiorina defends HP job cuts to shareholders
Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina defended her company's recent layoffs on Tuesday amid criticism that the cuts run counter to the tenets of co-founder William Hewlett.
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Solectron sheds jobs ahead of earnings
Solectron, the world's largest contract manufacturer of electronics, has begun to cut jobs because of the massive slowdown in the high-tech industry.
A representative...
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Intel to cut 5,000 jobs, warns on revenue
Intel slashed its earnings forecast again Thursday and announced it would cut 5,000 jobs--about 6 percent of its work force--over the next nine months.
The chipmaker w...
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Motorola slashes 7,000 jobs in mobile unit
Mobile phone manufacturer Motorola on Tuesday said it is cutting 7,000 jobs in its global cell phone unit to reduce costs in its wireless handset business during a time o...
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Solectron cuts jobs, earnings outlook
Solectron expects to miss analysts' third-quarter estimates possibly
by more than half and plans to cut more than 8,000 jobs.
After market close Monday, the contrac...
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Compaq to cut 5,000 jobs, miss estimates
Compaq Computer on Thursday warned it will miss first-quarter earnings estimates and cut 5,000 jobs.
The announcement, which followed a week of analyst downgrades and...
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Jobs: OS X here; updates on the way
CUPERTINO, Calif.--Although CD recording and other features aren't ready yet for Mac OS X, updates are coming soon, Apple Computer CEO Steve Jobs said Wednesday.
Jobs ...
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Chinadotcom cuts jobs, sells assets
Asian Web site operator Chinadotcom said Tuesday it is engaging in a series of cost-cutting measures such as layoffs and the sale of non-core assets, in response to uncer...
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Schwab cutting thousands of jobs
Charles Schwab, the largest discount and online broker in the United States, said Thursday it is slashing up to 3,400 jobs amid a slowdown
in trading by its clients.
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Emachines cuts jobs, retrenches
Discount-computer seller Emachines will cut 16 percent of its work force and pull back its efforts aimed at getting revenue from online advertising.
Emachines, which ...
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MarchFirst slashing 1,700 jobs
Web consultancy MarchFirst on Monday said it is laying off
about 1,700 employees, or 30 percent of its entire work force, amid its sale
of certain assets to Divine, a f...
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Cysive cuts jobs, sees first-quarter charge
Cysive, which helps companies develop Web-based software systems, plans to eliminate approximately 95 positions, or about 30 percent of its work force, as part of a compa...
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NEC sheds 700 chip jobs
Computer hardware maker NEC said late Friday that it will cut 700 jobs amid a "severe downturn" in semiconductor demand. NEC said it will close its chip assembly and test...
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Commentary: Jobs outpace workers
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Yahoo's turn: Cuts 400 jobs
Web portal Yahoo on Wednesday reported first-quarter earnings that slightly beat Wall Street's expectations but said it plans to lay off 12 percent of its 3,510 employees...
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PC retailer cuts jobs at Web sites
PC retailer Micro Warehouse, which runs the MicroWarehouse and MacWarehouse Web sites, is cutting 65 jobs to reduce costs, a company spokesman confirmed. A memo from CEO ...
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Class of 2001: Finding that dream tech job
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Downturn, schmownturn.
Despite the economic slowdown that has produced massive layoffs and hiring freezes, recruitment expert Jeff Daniel says young technology...
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Jobs: iMacs are here to stay
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CUPERTINO, Calif.--Apple Computer CEO Steve Jobs showed shareholders the 5 millionth iMac to leave the factory and promised the venerable desktop isn't going...
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Yahoo job cuts to come in 30 days
Web portal Yahoo, which plans to cut 12 percent of its global staff of 3,510 people, expects that "the work force reduction would take place within the next 30 days," acc...
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Compaq shaves target, trims more jobs
PC maker Compaq Computer reported quarterly earnings Monday that missed lowered analyst expectations by a penny and announced it would eliminate 2,000 more jobs.
Compa...
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Caldera latest Linux company to cut jobs
Caldera Systems, one of the few publicly traded Linux companies, laid off 32 of its 188 employees to cut costs and prepare for its coming merger with Santa Cruz Operation...
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JDS phases out jobs, drops forecast
Fiber-optic component giant JDS Uniphase said Tuesday it plans to lay off 5,000 people, or 20 percent of its work force. The company added that its fourth-quarter earning...
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3Com to cut 3,000 jobs
Networking equipment maker 3Com on Monday said it would cut its work force by 3,000 people, or 30 percent, in an effort to trim costs by $1 billion.
The announcement was ...
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Apple slices jobs in consulting arm
Apple Computer has cut a small number of jobs as part of a restructuring of its iServices consulting unit, CNET News.com has learned.
A handful of workers were laid of...
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Dell to slash up to 4,000 jobs
Dell Computer will eliminate 3,000 to 4,000 jobs during the next two quarters as the company retrenches amid tough times.
The cuts, which the company said will primari...
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Apple consulting jobs sliced
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Game machines tackle new jobs
LOS ANGELES--A game machine should play games, right?
That seemingly simple proposition has gotten a whole lot more complicated at the Electronic Entertainment Expo ...
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NEC cuts chip-plant jobs
NEC Electronics has eliminated about 400 positions at its chip plant in Roseville, Calif. The Japanese company also laid off 100 plant employees in April. By the end of S...
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Paging firm to cut 55 percent of jobs
Paging company Glenayre Technologies--sued last week by Research In Motion for alleged patent infringement--said on Wednesday it is getting out of the wireless messaging ...
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Techs rise on positive job data
Technology stocks rose Friday afternoon as investors decided that a positive report on jobs outweighed a negative one on manufacturing.
The tech-heavy Nasdaq composite...
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