informationweek.com - 1/15/2009
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Seagate Technology is cutting thousands of jobs and slashing executive salaries by as much as 25%, as the disk-drive maker grapples with the economic downturn that has hammered sales of personal computers that use the company's products. In a Wednesday filing with the Securities and Exchange ...
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Google and Seagate cut staff while Microsoft weighs options
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We woke up this morning to find somebody other than Steve Jobs at the helm of Apple and Palm reigning supreme as the new darling of the tech industry. Unfortunately, it's not the tech bubble year of 1996 -- it's the recession plagued start to 2009. So it's no surprise to hear that Google, Seagate, and Microsoft are all looking to slash operating costs in a quest to ...
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Seagate, la popular empresa que fabrica discos duros, le está dando duro la crisis, bueno, queremos creer que es la crisis. El CEO de Seagate, William Watkins, ha renunciado y se van a despedir a 800 trabajadores, el 10% de su plantilla. Por lo menos queda el consuelo de que los sueldos de los directivos se reducirán un 25%.
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Job cuts sweep tech industry: Google, Motorola, Seagate, Sanyo, NEC & Microsoft affected
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It’s not a good day for a career in the tech industry, as multiple job cuts and proposed cuts are reported, including some from big names like Google. According to the search giant’s own blog, positions in both recruiting and engineering are at risk, with the former seeing 100 jobs cut outright, while the latter involves the closure (and potential for relocation) of offices in Austin, Texas; Trondheim, Norway; and Lulea, Sweden. Google are hoping that the 70 engineers involved will be able to relocate rather than leave the company.
Meanwhile, Motorola have scythed 4,000 jobs, three-quarters of which are from the company’s handset division, ...
The Gadget Jobocalypse? Tech Stalwarts are Still Downsizing
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7:11 am | 0 recommendations | 0 comments The Gadget Jobocalypse? Tech Stalwarts are Still Downsizing | posted by Kit Eaton Our string of job-related stories may be very timely indeed, particularly advice on what to do if you're laid-off --Motorola, Google, Microsoft and Seagate are all about to do some staff downsizing, or take a serious look at their options. [image] Woe-mired cellphone maker Motorola announced yesterday that it will immediately ditch around 6% of its global workforce--mainly from its handset division. That amounts to perhaps 3,000 to 4,000 fewer people developing new phones for Motorola, which may be why the company is tying itself to producing no ...
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Seagate Technology, the world's largest maker of hard drives, said Wednesday it will cut 6 percent of its global workforce and reduce some employees' salaries by as much as 25 percent, as it struggles in a woeful business climate. The announcement by ...
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