The largest newspaper in Oregon has laid off about 5% of its staff, 37 workers in total. The Oregonian gave grim news to their employees on Wednesday and severance packages were offered to the displaced workers. The bulk of the losses occurred in the news department, although accounting, advertising, and circulation suffered losses as well. The Portland-based newspaper [...]
Continue reading...Friday, August 14, 2009
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, August 6, 2009
RealNetworks has eliminated 12 more jobs, or 9% of its music division. Employees of both RealNetworks and Rhapsody America were targeted. The firm cut 130 jobs last year. RealNetworks is a provider of Internet media delivery software and services based in Seattle, Washington. The company is best known for the creation of RealAudio, a compressed audio format; [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, July 19, 2009
The Department of Defense intends to cut 98 positions from a Washington Air National Guard unit that protects the US from Internet-based attacks. The Air National Guard’s annual budget eliminates the positions at the 194th Regional Support Wing by October 1st. Most of the unit is based at Camp Murray, near of Tacoma. Targeted jobs include the [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, July 18, 2009
Scottsdale, Arizona-based web hosting firm Go Daddy is hiring bilingual Spanish-speakers for its Scottsdale call center, as business from Mexico and other Spanish-speaking countries grows. The firm is hiring 20 customer service people to handle calls from the US and Canada, plus Mexico, Spain, and Argentina. Last month, the firm hired 20 Spanish speakers for its Tempe [...]
Continue reading...Friday, July 3, 2009
Oakland, California-based Internet company Evite has laid off nine of its 38 employees. Two executives were laid off: general manager Rosanna McCollough and marketing veep Lariayn Payne. No further details have been released, concerning the other seven employees affected. Launched in 1998, Evite is a social-planning website for creating, sending, and managing online invitations. The website is a [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, July 2, 2009
Atlanta’s Cox Communications held a job fair in Rancho Santa Margarita, California this week, with 750 applicants applying for 60 positions. The jobs pay up to $50,000 a year. Cox Communications is a privately-owned subsidiary of Cox Enterprises, providing digital cable television and telecommunications services in the United States. It is the third-largest cable TV provider in [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Internet TV service Joost is cutting jobs, eliminating customer service, and demoting its CEO. Joost has not announced the number of layoffs; it employs 100 people in New York, London and the Netherlands. The firm will move away from its identity as a consumer website due to competition from Hulu, and will concentrate on selling its video [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, June 24, 2009
MySpace will lay off 300 people overseas, and shut at least four of its foreign offices. Last week, the social networking Web site cut 30% of its workforce, or 420 people. MySpace is a social networking website with an interactive, user-submitted network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music, and videos for teenagers and adults internationally. [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Second-place social networking site MySpace cut 30% of its workforce today, or 420 people. Two months ago, Fox Interactive Media brought on former Facebook executive Owen Van Natta to steer the floundering website. Former CEO and MySpace co-founder Chris DeWolfe left in April. MySpace has 1,000 workers after the cuts. Facebook employs 850. MySpace is a social networking [...]
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