Indianapolis, Indiana’s Right on Interactive will hire 100 people over the next five years. The firm will get over $1 million in tax incentives from the Indiana Economic Development Corporation. Right on Interactive will invest $1.3 million to expand and upgrade its Indianapolis headquarters. Right On Interactive provides integrated marketing automation software and professional marketing services for organizations [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, June 11, 2009
Alameda, California-based UTStarcom will cut 2,300 positions worldwide, or more than 50% of its global work force, by the end of its fiscal year. Last month the company reported Q1 losses of $67.4 million. The firm saw a profit in Q1 2008. UTStarcom will outsource its manufacturing operations, and cut research & development spending. UTStarcom is a Fortune [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Cadence Design Systems will cut 225 jobs, or about 5% of its workforce. The company expects to record a pre-tax restructuring charge of up to $25 million in Q2, and save about $30 million a year with the restructuring. San Jose, California-based Cadence Design Systems is an electronic design automation software and engineering services company, founded in [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Non-profit power utility Midwest ISO will hire 69 new employees in Carmel, Indiana. Some of the positions will pay $85,000. Half of the new positions will be for power system engineers; the others are software developers and database administrators. The organization is getting a $1.3 million in grants from the Indiana Economic Development Corporation. The city will [...]
Continue reading...Monday, June 8, 2009
The US Department of Defense is conducting a national competition and talent search to help find 10,000 computer security experts, including 200 jobs with the DoD itself. The DoD’s Defense Cyber Crime Center will only consider applicants from the continental US — it cannot afford to fly in applicants from Alaska or Hawaii. Challenge participants submit solutions [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, June 7, 2009
Fox Interactive Media, home of popular social networking website MySpace, will cut jobs and cancel its move into swankier West Los Angeles offices. Fox head Rupert Murdoch has brought on a former AOL CEO to overhaul MySpace, and canned two of the site’s founders. The firm is reviewing positions across the company, at MySpace and at other [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, June 6, 2009
Mountain View, California’s Intuit, maker of Quicken and Turbo Tax software, will lay off 300 of its 8,200 employees. Half the cuts will come at the firm’s Silicon Valley headquarters. This week, Intuit purchased Pal Alto’s PayCycle for $170 million. Founded in 1983, Intuit develops financial and tax preparation software and related services for small businesses, accountants [...]
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...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...Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Framingham, Massachusetts-based information technology firm GlassHouse Technologies will expand its operations center in Cary, North Carolina. The firm will create jobs by bringing back positions sent overseas. The Cary facility provides data storage, backup and security services, and currently employs 40. The firm has not given a specific number of jobs to be created in Cary, which [...]
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