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In a piece on Harvard Business Publishing , Peter Bergman writes about a woman who was efficient and organized -- and laid off . It was easy to fire her because her managers could easily see what s... More >
Though his base salary grew in 2009, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's compensation actually was 5.5 percent less overall as the software company's sales sagged in the recession, reports Reuters . &nb... More >
Yet another former Googler has followed new CEO Tim Armstrong to AOL. Shashi Seth has been named senior vice president of global advertising products, a position in which he will be building AOL’s a... More >
Health organizations are reluctant to enter into new outsourcing agreements during this down economy unless there's some hope of a quick return on investment, reports ModernHealthcare.com . ... More >
About 100 IT workers for the University of Missouri Health System will become employees of Kansas City-based Cerner Corp. as part of a public-private partnership on research and development, report... More >
Volvo is consolidating its 17 IT support and management centers into one in Bangalore, India, reports PC World . The single center will manage and support all infrastructure, networks and co... More >
Apple has rehired Michael Tchao, who 15 years ago developed its failed Newton personal digital assistant, reports The New York Times . Tchao will be vice president of product marketing, thoug... More >
Dion Almaer and Ben Galbraith, who lead the Mozilla Developer Tools Lab, have announced their move to Palm, reports InfoWorld . They have been running the Ajaxian Web site, focusing on all ... More >
Phoenix Technologies has announced it will invest $20 million and double its staff to 120 at its Indian development center in Bangalore , reports Network World. The center, which it establis... More >
Fujitsu President Kuniaki Nozoe has resigned , citing ill health, and board Chairman Michiyoshi Mazuka has been named to replace him temporarily, reports Bloomberg . There's no word on the na... More >
Companies such as Microsoft and Yahoo are working with staffing firms such as Elance and oDesk to create eBay-like marketplaces to match workers with employers, reports Computerworld . The ... More >
The Connecticut state attorney general has sided with the Communications Workers of America union in pressing AT&T to abandon its planned job cuts in the state, reports Reuters . It say... More >
Revenues are down at India's top outsourcing firms, and so are pay raises , which in the past easily could be in the double digits, according to Business Week. Some Indian engineers with two... More >
After all the pain the Detroit area has been through, here's some good news for Michigan. Silicon Valley company Systems In Motion plans an information technology services center for Ann Arbor, Mich... More >
Senior Microsoft exec Debra Chrapaty, who ran its data centers, security, and global delivery operations, is taking a job at Cisco in its collaboration software group, reports InformationWeek . &n... More >
This CIO Zone piece based on information from Robert Half International looks at six industries most likely to be hiring senior IT staff . Robert Half reported earlier it expects IT hiring overal... More >
Amid all the economic upheaval this year, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer got a 4 percent pay raise, according to a preliminary filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. RedOrbit report... More >
It's sort of in the "well, duh!" department, but more IT professionals are putting in more hours . At least those who still have jobs. UK researchers with the IT Job Board in a recent study f... More >
A site called The Loop is reporting that Microsoft is trying to lure top management talent away from Apple retail stores by offering them significant raises and moving expenses, in some cases. Th... More >
Unemployment in Silicon Valley reached 12 percent in August, though experts predict the job cuts should flatten out in the coming months, according to The San Jose Mercury News . The nationa... More >
Following the lead of other tech companies, Microsoft's board has decided to hold a non-binding shareholder vote on executive salaries every three years, reports TechFlash . Hewlett-Packard... More >
The economic downturn, though expected to fuel outsourcing, actually hasn't had that effect at all, according to international law firm Morrison & Foerster. Based on its Global Sourcing Gr... More >
The age, uniqueness and stability of the systems your company uses all play into calculations of the risk involved in outsourcing operations, according to Outsourcing Leadership . Part 1 of ... More >
Tata Consultancy has opened a new facility in Buenos Aires, Argentina , as it expands its presence in Latin America, reports Economic Times . The 10,000-square-meter facility will offer consulting,... More >
Though the Justice Department is investigating alleged "anti-poaching" pacts between Silicon Valley titans, Google engineer Matt Cutts is openly wooing Yahoo search engineers , reports Venture Be... More >
As he prepares AOL for spinoff from Time Warner, new CEO Tim Armstrong has terminated two executives , reports All Things Digital . Armstrong isn't expected to replace Chief Operating Office... More >
IBM has taken heat as it increasingly moves jobs from the United States to less-expensive locations, but amid all the talk of job cuts in the economic downturn, Big Blue is hiring at its plant in Es... More >
Indian outsourcing will grow exponentially over the next decade to hit $225 billion in sales by 2020, according to an association that promotes the country's offshoring capabilities, according to Ind... More >
Indian IT oursourcing provider Zensar is teaming up with the University of Essex to train students in outsourcing , particularly in vendor management roles, reports v3.co.uk . The story poin... More >
Four former executives of aQuantive have left Microsoft a little over two years after it bought the online advertising company, reports TechFlash . Karl Siebrecht, formerly president of aQu... More >
IDC projects that 6,000 tech marketing jobs will be axed in 2009 as companies realign their sales and marketing organizations in the down economy. It expects IT marketing budgets to fall by ... More >
Verizon plans job cuts beyond the 16,000 previously announced. CNNMoney.com quotes Verizon CFO John Killian saying : We realized that we need to do more and in an accelerated pace. The company has... More >
Noting that you really have to be leery of any article professing to offer "the real truth" about anything, this CIO.com piece, "The Unspoken Truth About Managing Geeks," offers some valuable adv... More >
Smaller Indian outsourcing companies are gaining business by cutting prices more than the larger ones in this recession, according to Forrester Research. These companies also are more willing to take... More >
The move to electronic health records is creating job opportunities for IT professionals , reports InformationWeek , even as the details are being worked out in the federal government's HITECH sti... More >
Bill Gates will dedicate a computer science center bearing his name at Carnegie Mellon University on Sept. 22, reports Computerworld . And yes, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation had mu... More >
This CIO.com piece points out that the customer wields the most power in the final months before an outsourcing contract expires. That's the time to do a lot of work in looking at alternatives an... More >
Qantas Airways has signed a seven-year IT outsourcing contract with IBM, reports The Associated Press in Forbes. The Australian puts the value of the deal at up to $200 million. As part ... More >
It's a down year, and Cisco executives will feel it in the wallet. According to a Dow Jones story on CNNMoney.com, incentive bonuses were "significantly lower" for top executives in the most rece... More >
Tech-industry employment in Silicon Valley fell by 17 percent from 2001 to 2008, with some sectors hit harder than others, reports The New York Times . According to data from the Bureau of ... More >
Brad Garlinghouse, a former Yahoo executive who highlighted problems at the company in his “Peanut Butter Manifesto,” has been named president of Internet and mobile communications at AOL , report... More >
We covered the Robert Half Technology report on the fourth quarter earlier this week, which said don't look for IT hiring to pick up by the end of the year. But this CIO.com article looks ... More >
Microsoft has confirmed it is laying off 27 more people in Redmond and Bellevue, Wash., as The Seattle Times originally reported. Actually, the company is laying off people in other locales, as w... More >
In tough times like these, unemployed tech workers need all the breaks they can get. Here's one: Microsoft has cut the price on its certification exams by up to 25 percent. TechFlash reports they... More >
Gearing up for economic recovery, Indian outsourcer Tata Consultancy Services says it plans to hire 25,000 people by the end of the year, according to v3.co.uk . That story surmises that Ta... More >
Google is losing its head of operations in China . Kai-Fu Lee is leaving to start his own venture in Beijing, reports Bloomberg . The company has named two executives to replace him: Boon-Loc... More >
Spirit AeroSystems, formerly the Wichita, Kan., unit of Boeing, plans to outsource some of its IT work to IBM , and in the process will cut 37 full-time workers and 15 contractors, reports bizjourn... More >
Twitter has hired another former Google employee for its executive team . Dick Costolo has been named chief operating officer, reports The New York Times . Costolo founded FeedBurner, a serv... More >
With unemployment being at such troubling levels, everyone's trying to get a handle on the skills necessary for jobs of the future and to get training, as needed, to acquire those skills . ... More >
Tech training programs such as those offered by Cisco and IBM are helping laid-off workers add new skills to their resumes and prepare for jobs of the future, according to BusinessWeek . It ... More >
Echoing its forecasts for the past two quarters, Robert Half Technology's fourth-quarter report finds IT hiring expected to remain flat , according to an Associated Press story in Forbes. ... More >
Outsourcing is returning to favor with 3 of 4 executives surveyed by Capgemeni agreeing that contracting work out is imperative for companies to hold the bottom line in this down economy , according... More >
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