Tag: Job cuts
Google to slash 4,000 Motorola jobs, focus on high-end smartphones
Google are preparing to cut 20% of Motorola staff following the finalised buyout of the mobile company back in May. When Google first announced it was to be purchasing Motorola back in August, many assumed it would be to take…
RIM to cut 2,000 jobs as BlackBerry brand limps on
Research in Motion are lining up another large set of job cuts, with over 2,000 members of staff to be let go, according to reports from Canadian publications The Globe and Mail. The cuts are expected to be effective from…
150 more jobs face the chop at MySpace
MySpace's star again drops a little lower in the social networking sky today. A new round of lay-offs are set to hit the staff of MySpace this week, according to a new report. As many as 150 workers may get…
Nokia disconnects people with 4,000 sackings
4,000 Nokia employees will find themselves polishing their CVs, as the fading telecoms giant is trimming down to face the future. Most jobcuts will fall to Finland and Denmark, as well as Britain where 700 positions will be cut….
Vodafone axing 500 jobs? Eyeing up 3 network?
Vodafone are said to be preparing to axe as many as 500 jobs in an effort to cut costs. Vodafone employs around 9,000 staff in the UK, with the job cuts hitting their Newbury headquarters hardest. "The roles affected are…
2,000 Sony Ericsson employees to be made redundant
Four facilities are set to close as Sony feels the pinch of the crunch.
Yahoo! to go for a further round of lay offs
Yahoo! looks to be continuing it’s slow slide into total meltdown with rumours of a third round of lay offs within the last 12 months.
An insider told the NYT that cuts could come as quickly as next week and there’s every reason to think that the next one will be well in excess of 1,000 jobs with the first thousand leaving in early 2008 and a further 1,400 at the end of last year.
Yahoo! still gets 500 million or so eyes over its pages each and every month but, with the internet still booming, it’s the growth where they’re missing out. While Google was out buying Blogger and YouTube, Yahoo! missed opportunities to pick up Facebook and last year had to spend an awful lot of resources in talks with Microsoft. The offer from Gates, Ballmer & Sons will be starting to look very good right about now.
Crunch Watch: Philips announces 6,000 job cut
Philips is the latest casualty in ongoing global meltdown or their employees are, more specifically, as the European tech giant announced 6,000 redundancies today.
The cuts come after the Dutch company released figures of their first quarterly loss in six years seeing profits sink to €1.47 billion in the red. That sounds like the kind of sum that could end all things Royal Philips Electronics but then given that this time last year they made about the same amount…
