Tech industry slashing jobs again
Technology companies cut nearly 60,000 U.S. jobs in the first three months of the year, twice the number trimmed in the same period last year and the biggest loss of jobs...
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ICANN approves .jobs, .travel Net domains
ICANN, the group in charge of administering Internet addresses, has approved two new top level domains, .jobs and .travel.
At the 22nd ICANN International Conference ...
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IBM: Job cuts mean savings of $1 billion in 2006
IBM expects its restructuring to result in up to $500 million in savings this year and double that figure in 2006, the company said Thursday.
The computing giant on We...
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FAQ: Blogging on the job
Being a blogger can get you in trouble nowadays, at least if you write something that sufficiently vexes your employer.
Delta Air Lines last year fired flight attenda...
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U.S. economy adds tech jobs
A variety of sectors in the technology industry added jobs in April, another sign of a possible turnaround in the employment scene for U.S. computer pros.
The broader ...
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Photo: Jobs speaks to developers about the switch
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Golden State shines with new IT jobs
Out-of-work tech pros these days would be wise to do some California dreamin'.
The Golden State's share of new information technology jobs posted on major Internet job...
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Jobs rise in technology, fall in telecommunications
The U.S. economy added jobs in technology manufacturing and services in May, but lost positions in telecommunications.
The U.S. Labor Department said Friday that nonfa...
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Job site Indeed.com gets $5 million investment
Job-search site Indeed has received $5 million in funding from The New York Times Co., Union Square Ventures and Allen & Company, Indeed said Monday.
Indeed was fo...
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Tech jobs up in July
July was fairly sunny when it came to new jobs in the U.S. tech industry.
During the month, the U.S. economy added thousands of jobs in both the hardware and services ...
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Tech job cuts down from first quarter
In another sign of a possible turnaround in tech employment, a report released Thursday said job cuts announced by tech companies in the second quarter fell 33 percent fr...
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Study: Texas snagging bigger share of tech jobs
The Lone Star State has gained ground on the Golden State when it comes to new tech jobs.
That's the conclusion of a study scheduled to be published Tuesday by job sea...
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Legal argument could hamper high-tech job-changers
Buried in Microsoft's lawsuit against its former executive Kai-Fu Lee and Google is a legal doctrine that could make tech professionals shiver.
The high-profile dispu...
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Jobs: New Intel Macs are 'screamers
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SAN FRANCISCO--Addressing a packed crowd of the Mac faithful, Apple Computer CEO Steve Jobs on Tuesday ...
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Quote of the day: Jobs and the 8-pound iPod
In his opening speech Tuesday morning at MacWorld Expo in San Francisco, Apple Computer CEO Steve Jobs announced new features in iLife '06, such as Garageband's new podca...
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Steve Jobs in Tinseltown
time line Apple Computer CEO Steve Jobs has been in the entertainment business in one way or another for two decades. Here's a chronology of his Hollywood-related milesto...
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Steve Jobs' rise to movie mogul
profile In a career filled with a string of increasingly improbable sequels, Steve Jobs may have always been fated to play the role of movie mogul.
Now, with the $7....
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Google wins round in job discrimination lawsuit
A federal judge has ruled that Google and a former worker who sued the company alleging job discrimination and retaliation while she was pregnant with quadruplets should ...
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Oracle to cut 2,000 jobs
Oracle outlined its integration plans for Siebel Systems on Thursday, with 2,000 job cuts among the most notable tasks at hand.
Oracle, which closed its $5.85 billion ...
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Jobs' new Disney role raises conflict concerns
When Steve Jobs announced the $7.4 billion merger of his Pixar Animation Studios with Disney on Tuesday, he said the two companies could finally move beyond their "two se...
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Sun to slash thousands of jobs
Sun Microsystems announced Wednesday plans to cut up to 13 percent of its work force, in its first major restructuring effort under new CEO Jonathan Schwartz.
The ...
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Lenovo cuts jobs in restructuring push
Lenovo said Thursday that it will cut 1,000 jobs, or about 5 percent of its staff, and integrate its global sales and back-office support as part of a restructuring plan ...
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Progeny Linux leader takes new job
The founder of the Debian Linux project, and of a company called Progeny that aims to commercialize it, has taken a new job trying to standardize elements of the open-sou...
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CDMA scrap kills 500 Nokia jobs
Nokia is cutting around 500 jobs at its San Diego campus - half the workforce at that location - following its decision to cut back its plans for CDMA technology, a rival...
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Intel sheds another fringe business
Intel is shedding another peripheral business unrelated to PCs and servers in a bid to cut costs and get back to basics.
Eicon Networks announced on Wednesday that it ...
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Zurich plans to axe UK call centre
More than 700 jobs at insurance firm Zurich could be axed as part of plans to close its Newcastle call centre and move some of the work to India.
Zurich said it believ...
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Apple offers glimpse of Leopard
Apple on Monday introduced the Mac Pro, the company's first Intel-based professional desktop, and also gave developers a preview of Leopard, the next version of Mac OS X....
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Apple stock options woes deepen
Several options grants to top executives at Apple were dated just before sharp increases in its stock between 1997 and 2001, The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday, c...
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AOL to slash 5,000 jobs
Some 5,000 AOL employees, or about 26 per cent of the company's 19,000-person workforce, will lose their jobs within six months as a result of restructuring at Time Warne...
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Sun culls hundreds more staff
Sun Microsystems notified hundreds of employees yesterday that they'll be losing their jobs, a second phase in a plan to cut 4,000 to 5,000 workers.
About 950 employee...
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