New legislation introduced by a bipartisan group of 10 U.S. senators would nearly double the number of H-1B visas that companies can get each year to hire foreign high-skill workers, including technology employees. The Immigration ...
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IBM will launch before midyear several new and improved collaboration and communication products, including a new suite for human resources tasks and a major upgrade of its Connections enterprise social networking product. The company, ...
Even as mobile computing has become a top priority to executives, businesses lack internal leadership for mobile efforts, and the IT vendors they rely on, such as IBM and Oracle, aren't delivering on the mobile app front either, a newly ...
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Apple found 11 facilities within its supply chain using underage labor last year, and went as far to sever ties with one Chinese component maker for failing to prevent the violations. The company's crackdown on underage labor violations ...
US-based candy manufacturer American Licorice is set to invest $10m to expand its manufacturing facility at La Porte, Indiana. The company will install a licorice production line and a rail spur to receive ingredients, as part of the ...
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Following a drawn-out investigation, Apple has found 11 facilities within its supply chain using underage labour last year, and has severed ties with one Chinese component maker for failing to address the violations. The company’s ...
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IT applications integrator and reseller 2e2 has entered administration, after weeks of negotiations with investors failed to find a solution for the Berkshire-based firm's £270m debts. Some 319 UK sales and admin staff have already ...
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VMware has bucked recent hiring trends in the tech sector by announcing 900 job losses, despite unveiling a three per cent rise in 2012 income to $746m (£475m), while revenue rose 22 per cent to $4.61bn (£2.94bn). The ...
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18th January, 2013 - Xpertick.Com or Xpertick International Corporation, a leading organization in the field of international sourcing and trading company, having branches in different parts of the world, has recently announced it its ...
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A government body in the U.K. has fined Sony $396,000 for using lax network security when its PlayStation network was hacked in 2011. The Information Commissioner's Office, a public agency to protect information rights of individuals, ...
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The group of U.S. Senators who are leading an effort to develop a bipartisan comprehensive immigration bill want it to include a so-called STEM visa. The bipartisan group of eight senators Monday released the framework for an immigration ...
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LOS ANGELES, CA (BRAIN) — Fixed-gear bike company Pure Fix Cycles has hired industry veteran Terry Duran as global sales manager. Duran was previously national sales manager for Scott Sports' U.S. bike division. The company said ...
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Late Apple chief Steve Jobs threatened to slap Palm with patent lawsuits to prevent the tech rival from hiring away its talent, according to court documents available on Wednesday. Unsealed copies of an email exchanged between Jobs and ...
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New documents have been filed in court showing how a number of big, Silicon Valley-based companies operated an informal "no poaching" agreement to prevent them from taking each other's staff. The agreement, which contravened ...
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Queensland-based mining companies including coal producers are expecting to shed nearly 500 jobs from their operations in the Australian state in the next 12 months, and this is on top of a net loss of 3,370 jobs in the mining industry in ...