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December 2009

December 22, 2009

10 Outsourcing Trends for New Year

A CIO.com piece offers 10 outsourcing trends for 2010 that it says should be on your radar. At the same time, it says next year could be bumpy for customers and providers alike.   Here's a s... More >

Ballmer Not on '100 Best CEOs' List

Harvard Business Review recently came up with a list of the world's 100 best-performing chief executives , and conspicuously absent from that list is Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer , reports seattlep... More >

December 21, 2009

Oracle Trims Work Force by Nearly 1,300 Jobs

Oracle reduced its payroll by nearly 1,300 jobs in its most recent quarter, but an Oracle spokeswoman did not respond to a request for comment on the matter, reports InfoWorld .   According to... More >

December 18, 2009

Fujitsu Workers in UK Strike

Workers for Fujitsu in the UK are beginning a six-day strike to protest a wage freeze and cuts in jobs and pension, reports The Register .   It quotes Peter Skyte, IT and communications nation... More >

December 17, 2009

Banking to Become Hotbed for IT Jobs?

Tech recruiter The IT Job Board says the hot IT jobs in Europe will be in banking, telecoms and software, reports v3.co.uk . Following those three areas were project management and business analys... More >

December 15, 2009

Tips for Keeping Your Top Talent

In a pice on Harvard Business Publishing , Amy Gallo discusses how to retain your top talent. IT Business Edge's Ann All has written about the problem and experts interviewed for a story on IT hir... More >

December 9, 2009

No Holiday for Some HP Sales Staff

Some U.S. sales staff at Hewlett-Packard will be working during the company's two-week holiday break beginning Dec. 21, reports Bloomberg .   It quotes from an internal e-mail from Randy Seidl... More >

December 8, 2009

States Join Microsoft to Offer Free Tech Training

Microsoft's Elevate America, a three-year program to help people gain tech skills apparently is in full swing now and states are trying to get the word out.   Missouri has 25,000 vouchers for... More >

Tech Executives' Pay Stagnates

A new study of executive compensation among private tech companies shows salaries have taken a bigger hit than in the period following the dot-com bust, reports Xconomy .   In fact, these U.S... More >

December 4, 2009

Two Massachusetts Tech Companies Cut Jobs

Massachusetts-based Progress Software, which makes infrastructure software for large enterprises, plans to cut 12 to 14 percent of its global work force . That's  220 to 260 positions, reports The ... More >

December 3, 2009

Robert Half: IT Hiring to Rise by 3 Percent in First Quarter

Robert Half Technology's latest report predicts IT hiring will grow by a net 3 percent in the first quarter of 2010, reports FierceCIO.com.   Actually, in a phone survey of 1,400 CIOs, 7 per... More >

December 2, 2009

Uptick in Demand for H-1B Visas Signals Improving Economy?

Demand for H-1B visas has picked up in the past six to eight weeks, after languishing for several months, reports Computerworld . The story says that and the number of companies looking to hire ski... More >

Infosys to Hire 1,000 in U.S.

Outsourcer Infosys Technologies plans to add 1,000 employees in the United States and is looking to make acquisitions in Germany, France and Japan, reports The Wall Street Journal . Those buyouts ... More >

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