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The Yahooligans are still fleeing the ship. All Things Digital reports two Yahoo tech execs leaving. Dayne Sampson , Yahoo’s vice president of operations for search and advertising, is jumpi... More >
Forget all those stories about layoffs! The tech sector actually is doing better than others, according to TechAmerica, a technology advocacy trade group. It says 38,000 U.S. tech jobs were ... More >
A survey by supply chain analysts AMR Research finds more U.S. companies feeling government pressure to keep jobs in the United States as they ponder their options, reports Reuters . The nu... More >
KLA-Tencor, which makes testing equipment for the semiconductor manufacturing industry, plans to cut another 10 percent of its work force , about 550 jobs, reports Bloomberg . It announced i... More >
Sun Microsystems is laying off 1,500 people this week as part of a restructuring announced last fall, reports ITWorld.com . The company said in November it would reduce its work force by a... More >
Despite Google's layoffs announced last week, the search giant is still hiring , reports Reuters . The company's Web site has posted openings for 360 positions in a range of departments. Com... More >
Graduating computer science majors remain in demand despite the global economic downturn that has decimated the overall job market, reports Network World . Lenny Pitt, director of undergrad... More >
Google is laying off 100 sales and marketing employees today , a move that a senior vice president attributes to quick growth and over-investment in certain areas, according to Reuters . One hundre... More >
Agilent Technologies has announced it will cut 2,700 jobs, 14 percent of its work force, in response to a steep drop in demand for its measurement tools, reports Dow Jones in a story on CNNMoney... More >
IBM has confirmed it is laying off some U.S. workers , but still isn't saying how many, reports Network World . The company issued a statement saying: This is a North American action. We are... More >
IBM plans to make big job cuts in its global-business services unit and transfer much of the work to India, reports MarketWatch , citing a Wall Street Journal story that requires a subscription. A... More >
British workers to be laid off with Shop Direct's plan to close a call center in Crosby have been thrown a lifeline by a company looking for work-at-home call center staff for the United States, re... More >
Canadian technology outsourcing company CGI has been granted a 10-year, $182 million contract with insurance company Foresters, reports The Canadian Press . Under the seven-year extension o... More >
Affiliated Computer Services has completed its acquisition of e-Services Group International in an $85 million deal, reports The Dallas Business Journal . With its takeover of the business ... More >
Doug Merrill, Google's former CIO and vice president of engineering, has jumped ship from his new job as president of digital and COO of EMI New Music, reports eWEEK . Neither side is sayin... More >
NetApp Chief Executive Daniel J. Warmenhoven's compensation package dropped 29 percent in fiscal 2008 to $4.9 million, according to The Associated Press in a story in The San Jose Mercury News. &... More >
Intel is freezing employee pay for 2009 and will help workers with "underwater" stock options, reports The San Jose Mercury News . The company also has reduced contributions to employee ret... More >
The U.S. Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services will begin accepting H-1B visa applications April 1 with a quota of 65,000 visas to be granted, reports eWEEK . About half traditionally go ... More >
Gartner is predicting IT outsourcing prices will fall 5 to 20 percent this year and next, depending on how long the global recession lasts, reports vnunet.com . Suppliers will try to counte... More >
The economy is throwing a kink in expected development of outsourcing beyond mere cost-cutting , reports InformationWeek . These more difficult risk-reward IT outsourcing contracts involve s... More >
After raising its cost-cutting goal by $1 billion last month, Dell is looking to eliminate more jobs. The company confirmed to The Register that it is looking at job cuts in its operations... More >
2008 was a good year for workforce management software, with sales up 7.4 percent, reports market research firm DMG Consulting. Small vendors and those with standalone products saw the most ... More >
A delegation of Indian CEOs visiting the White House this week raised the prospect of new limitations on H-1B visas, reports Silicon Alley Insider , citing a story in the Press Trust of India. &nbs... More >
Saying, "Our business environment is severe," Sony plans to freeze worker salaries for a year, and cut bonuses for managers by 35 to 40 percent, reports The International Herald Tribune . T... More >
For the first time since the dot-com bust, there's an increase in the number of college students majoring in computer science , reports USA Today . According to figures from 192 colleges by ... More >
How much do layoffs cost? While it's easy to figure how much layoffs will save the company, the costs can be more nebulous, but more than you expected in the end, according to this Fortune piece ... More >
Laying people off is never easy, though this checklist in our Knowledge Network can help with that. Eliminating jobs outside the United States is even trickier. This IDG story in The New Y... More >
Hard hit by the global recession, Nokia plans to cut 1,700 jobs worldwide, reports BBC News . In an effort to cut annual costs in its key handset unit by 700m euros ($910 million), it wil... More >
Wipro expects global outsourcing business to pick up in the second half of the year and the company has had no major cancellations because of the economy, reports Reuters . Some customers h... More >
The Swedish business weekly Affarsvarlden is reporting that Sprint Nextel has signed a $2 billion network outsourcing deal with Ericsson, reports FierceWireless , which finds it curious since Ericss... More >
IBM's not alone in trying to fly beneath the radar when it comes to moving work to India . Network World reports Cisco is incrementally moving jobs to India as part of "limited restructuring... More >
Recent research suggests that Americans could collectively save more than $500 billion from telecommuting , reports InformationWeek . According to telecommuting advocates and authors Kate Li... More >
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has vowed to fix problems with the state's overwhelmed unemployment call centers , reports The Sacramento Bee . At 5 cents a message, the state has rack... More >
Banks increasingly are setting up their own operations in offshore locations rather than depending on outsourcing companies, reports BusinessWeek . It quotes Eran Eisenberg, senior legal co... More >
National Semiconductor announced Wednesday it will cut 26 percent of its work force , 1,725 jobs, reports The Associated Press in a story in The Boston Globe. Beginning immediately, it will... More >
AOL has begun carrying out the layoffs it announced in January . The company has said it will lay off 10 percent of its work force, about 700 people. They're being cut in Dulles, Va., New York and... More >
A commenter begged to differ with this item saying that Apple and Qualcomm are the only tech companies among the top 10 in the United States to avoid layoffs. I haven't found any reports of ... More >
Half the owners of small businesses in a recent survey said they're cutting their own salaries , reports CNNMoney.com . Office supplies retailer Staples in the December surveyed owners and s... More >
EMC CEO and Chairman Joseph M. Tucci's 2008 pay package was valued at $11.7 million , more than twice the value of his 2007 package, according to an Associated Press story in The Boston Globe. &n... More >
Telecom and networking equipment maker Ciena Corp. plans to cut 200 jobs and close a research and development facility in Acton, MD, reports The Baltimore Sun . The layoffs represent 9 percent of... More >
Of the top 10 U.S. hardware and software companies, only Apple and Qualcomm have not cut jobs, reports FierceWireless . Apple posted solid results in its most recent quarter, which ended De... More >
Troubled Indian outsourcing company Satyam on Monday began a competitive bidding process for a 51 percent stake in the company, reports Network World . Bidders must express their interest b... More >
The national unemployment rate hit 8.1 percent in February, but the January report put it at 9.4 percent in Silicon Valley , reports The San Jose Mercury News . It quotes Silicon Valley Lead... More >
Microsoft is cutting the budget for some projects under way by as much as 15 to 20 percent, affecting contract workers from outside vendors known as "v-dash" workers, reports Todd Bishop at TechFl... More >
Regulators in India have approved the sale of a 51 percent stake in scandal-ridden Satyam, reports Network World . It says bidders, however, will not have access to the company's books beca... More >
As part of its cost cuts, Seagate is eliminating positions at the top , reports The Associated Press in a story in The Boston Globe. The drive maker announced in January it is cutting 6 pe... More >
Former Motorola CFO Paul Liska is disputing the company's version of why he left, reports The Wall Street Journal . The Associated Press reports Motorola said on Feb. 3 that Liska was leav... More >
The Communications Workers of America has reached a tentative agreement with AT&T Mobility covering the union's more than 20,000 workers, reports Mobile Burn . Workers have been without... More >
Seventy-five percent of organizations polled at the annual conference of the International Association of Outsourcing Professionals said they will do the same amount of outsourcing or more in this ... More >
Dell plans to continue outsourcing manufacturing of its products , one computer or server line at a time, according to a Dow Jones story on CNNMoney.com. The company outsources the producti... More >
2009 could present a retreat from offshoring, according to a just-released survey by accounting and consulting firm BDO Seidman. In a January survey of 100 tech company chief financial office... More >
Once the dust clears from its layoffs, Microsoft expects the proportion of H-1B visa-holders to be about the same, reports Reuters . The story says those foreign workers have always account... More >
Microsoft's outlay this year for research and development could translate into up to 3,000 new jobs, chief operating officer Kevin Turner said Tuesday. Speaking at CeBit, the European technolo... More >
Scandal-rocked Satyam has slashed variable pay in its latest move to cut costs as it tries to attract a buyer. The outsourcing company had already eliminated variable pay for its senior execu... More >
Some Google executives came away with nice bonuses in 2008 despite the troubling economy, reports paidcontent.org . The story quotes an SEC filing listing bonuses for five execs ranging from $675,... More >
In this tough economy, more U.S.companies are considering offshoring work to India, but Indian companies have not been rallying to gain this new business, the head of Gartner India research said. &nb... More >
Independent IT consultant Paul Massie believes that the economy, more than anything President Obama does , will have a greatest impact on outsourcing. Posting his analysis on The Expert Netw... More >
Hewlett-Packard subsidiary EDS has landed a 10-year, $1 billion data center services contract with UK insurance company Aviva, reports RTT News . As part of the contract, EDS will retool an... More >
The problem isn't all those foreigners coming to take U.S. tech jobs, but that so many skilled foreigners are leaving, according to a report called "America’s Loss is the World’s Gain.” Writt... More >
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