Sonus Networks, which cut 60 jobs in March, has cut another 93 positions, bringing its total of layoffs this year to 243. The Westford, Massachusetts company, which makes Internet network hardware and software, has been shedding jobs in recent months as part of restructuring. Sonus Networks is a technology and telecommunications equipment company, and a provider of [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, July 23, 2009
Lattice Semiconductor will eliminate 64 jobs from its global workforce, or 8%. The firm saw a 19% drop in revenue in Q2 2009. Hillsboro, Oregon’s Lattice Semiconductor is the number four ranked company in world market share of high-performance programmable logic devices. Lattice was incorporated in Oregon in 1983, and reincorporated in Delaware in 1985. The company is [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, July 16, 2009
Cisco Systems will lay off 600 to 700 employees at its headquarters in San Jose, California headquarters. The firm warned in February that 2,000 jobs could be cut this year. Cisco Systems is a multinational corporation with more than 66,000 employees and annual revenues of $39 billion as of 2008. It designs and sells networking and [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, July 15, 2009
The State University of New York at Albany’s College of Nanoscale Science & Engineering will construct a a $50 million computer chip packaging center, creating 200 jobs. The Computer Chip Hybrid Integration Partnership (CHIP) will also build a $27.5 million computer chip commercialization center at the SUNY Institute of Technology outside Utica, creating 475 jobs. Share This [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, July 9, 2009
Sun Microsystems will eliminate 12 jobs in Alabama as part of a national restructuring plan. The manufacturer or hardware and software is cutting nine jobs in Birmingham, two in Huntsville and one in Mobile. Sun recently laid off 18 employees at its Phoenix, Arizona location. Sun Microsystems is a multinational vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Sun Microsystems is letting go 18 employees from its Phoenix, Arizona location. The Santa Clara, California-based computer networking firm to cut as many as 6,000 workers, or 18% of its work force, to trim costs. The firm has eliminated 2,800 jobs so far this year. Sun Microsystems is a multinational vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, June 2, 2009
NCR, the world’s leading manufacturer of automated teller machines, is relocating its corporate headquarters to Duluth, Georgia, a suburb of Atlanta, creating 2,000 jobs over the next five years. The firm’s headquarters was formerly in Dayton, Ohio. The Buckeye State offered NCR a a $31.1 million incentive package to stay. The incentives offered by the state [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, May 28, 2009
Palo Alto, California’s Hewlett-Packard will cut 700 out of 1,300 manufacturing jobs in Erskine near Glasgow, Scotland. The company is shuttering manufacturing operations in Scotland and Germany, and transferring the work to the Czech Republic. HP has run the former Compaq plant in Erskine since 2002. Most of the remaining workers are actually employed by outside agencies. Scottish [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, May 21, 2009
Endicott, New York-based electronics manufacturer Endicott Interconnect Technologies is cutting 240 jobs from its workforce of 1,800. The firm announced wage and hour reductions for all employees in April. The company makes printed circuit boards. Formerly IBM’s microelectronics division, Endicott Interconnect Technologies supplies electronic interconnect solutions and electro/mechanical equipment. Share This Story:
Continue reading...Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Palo Alto, California’s Hewlett-Packard will cut 6,400 workers, 2% of the company’s global workforce. The cuts are in addition to 24,600 layoffs resulting from HP’s acquisition of Electronic Data Systems, and will take place over the next 12 months. HP’s profits have dropped 17% to $1.72 billion, while sales have fallen 3% to $27.4 billion. HP employed 321,000 [...]
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