Hewlett-Packard reduced its workforce last year by 17,800 employees, more than half way to the restructuring goal it announced last year. Most of the departures came via layoffs, though some key IT workers left unexpectedly. The company ...
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Hewlett-Packard has reported an $8.9bn loss in its third fiscal quarter, with earnings 568% down compared with the same period the year before. Hewlett-Packard (HP) was forced to write down the value of some assets, mostly related to its ...
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Citigroup is to lose more than 5,000 IT and operations jobs as part of the banking giant’s axing of 11,000 jobs globally. Some 40% of the jobs being cut in the firm’s Global Consumer Banking arm are to come from IT ...
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Peregrine Semiconductor Corp of San Diego,CA,USA,a fabless provider of radio-frequency(RF)integrated circuits(ICs)based on silicon-on-sapphire(SOS),has expanded its European operations with the opening of a design,manufacturing and sales ...
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Cisco is cutting 2% of its global workforce, or about 1,300 employees, in a "limited restructuring," the company said today. NUMBERS: Biggest tech industry layoffs of 2012 CUTS: Bloodiest tech industry layoffs of 2011 "We routinely ...
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Workday is expanding its cloud-based human resources and financial applications' footprint with a new employee time-tracking module, the company announced Tuesday. The new capabilities come as part of the SaaS (software as a service) ...
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HP’s layoff count has increased again as the company said, in a U.S. Security and Exchange filing it will eliminate 29,000 positions, 2,000 more than the previous figure. In May, HP announced plans to cut 27,000 employees by 2014, ...
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CSC customers are being urged to boycott the supplier over allegations that it took part in illegal CIA rendition flights in the US "war on terror". CSC has been linked in court documents to the rendition of German citizen Khaled ...
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We are going through a radical shift in the way people work and use computers. Increasing availability and affordability of wireless broadband is giving the global workforce true mobility, for the first time in history. Many of them will ...
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Applied Materials,the No.1 supplier of semiconductor manufacturing equipment,is to cut 900 to 1,300 jobs representing 6%-9%of its workforce via a voluntary retirement and other programmes. The cuts come in a weak year for semiconductor ...
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CSA Group, a global product testing company, has bought lamp and luminaire testing firm Orb Optronix. Orb Optronix, based in Kirkland, Washington, provides LED testing and measurement of discrete LEDs, LED array, LED light engines, LED ...
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There is a difference in the way U.S.and Indian IT firms report their headcounts,and it tells a lot about globalization. Indian firms diligently report hiring quarter-to-quarter.It's a key metric and a source of pride.Among those ...
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November 14, 2012 -- LOS ALAMITOS, Calif., 12 November, 2012 – Incoming CiSE Editor in Chief George K. Thiruvathukal, a computer science professor at Loyola University and co-director of Loyola's Center for Textual Studies and Digital ...
Chip manufacturer Advanced Micro Devices(AMD)is preparing to cut up to 30 per cent of its workforce. The struggling firm is expected to announce between 2,200 and 3,300 of its 11,100 staff could go after lower than expected sales and ...
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Nestle has opened its first R&D facility in India, its latest move to have more sites looking at innovation located in emerging markets. The company has invested CHF50m (US$52.7m) in the centre, which is located in Manesar close to ...
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