Microsoft CFO Chris Liddell plans to leave the company at the end of the year, reports Bloomberg . He's being replaced by Peter Klein, who has served as finance chief of the company’s business and ... More >
Nokia plans to lay off as many as 330 people from its research-and-development staff, reports Geek.com . It will include up to 230 workers in Oulu, Finland, and 100 employees in Copenhagen. The lay... More >
Trying to reverse two lower court rulings, tech workers plan to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court a federal decision to extend foreign student visas from one year to 29 months, reports InfoWorld . ... More >
As expected, the big layoff is coming to AOL. CEO Tim Armstrong has asked for “up to 2,500 volunteers” to leave the payroll, reports All Things Digital . That's about a third of its staff.  ... More >
In the coming fiscal year, federal officials plan a near five-fold increase in field inspections of companies hiring H-1B visa holders , reports Computerworld . U.S. Citizenship and Immigrat... More >
Cisco shareholders on Friday approved a "say-on-pay" proposal , giving them input into executive compensation, reports The Wall Street Journal . Like similar accommodations at Microsoft, App... More >
AOL is cutting 100 jobs as it prepares to spin off from parent Time Warner, but a much bigger layoff is expected later on, according to an Associated Press story in The Washington Post. It says th... More >
Adobe is cutting 680 jobs , or 9 percent of its work force, as it continues to cut costs as it prepares a new version of its mainstay design software, Creative Suite 5, according to a Bloomberg sto... More >
In an attempt to cut costs in line with the rate of defecting customers, Sprint has announced it will cut up to 2,500 jobs by the end of the year, reports The Kansas City Star . The move to... More >
Indian outsourcer Infosys has opened a second IT services facility in Mexico , locating it at the same site as its first, Monterrey, reports The Economic Times. The two centers focus on clie... More >
In a piece on CIO.com , consultancy Pace Harmon's Steve Martin advises against submitting a single RFP for multiple outsourcing services. Though going with a big all-in-one vendor has its b... More >
Fortune magazine has named Apple's Steve Jobs "CEO of the decade," with probably way more copy than you'd ever care to read about him. Fortune editor-at-large Adam Lashinsky writes in his ... More >
Security certifications were the most in-demand specialty among IT pros in a survey by Computing Technology Industry Association, reports CIO.com . In CompTIA's poll of 1,500 IT workers, 37 ... More >
Microsoft is laying off 800 more people , completing the staff reduction initially announced in January . But the final total reached 5,800 rather than 5,000, according to The Seattle Times ' Brier... More >

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