Intel Corporation has announced an alliance with other high tech companies including Dell to increase the hiring of new college graduates in the tech field this year. Dell is one of Intel’s top customers. The Invest in America Alliance wants to bolster the United States competitiveness in technology including clean technology, information technology and biotechnology. [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, November 5, 2009
Microsoft has announced another 800 layoffs to take place internationally. According to the company, the layoffs are coming due to a decrease in demand for its products. This year marks the first large-scale set of redundancies for the software giant. Earlier this year, Steve Ballmer, chief executive for Microsoft, stated that the company would be [...]
Continue reading...Monday, October 5, 2009
IDC, a marketing strategies company, has predicted that Windows 7 will create 25,000 jobs by the end of next year. Although IT hiring will remain flat or show only minor gains, the report contends that Windows 7 will be a net creator of jobs. Microsoft continues to gain market share, with Windows now [...]
Continue reading...Monday, May 11, 2009
Independent market analyst Wanda Meloni reports that 8,450 video game industry professionals have lost their jobs since July 2008. Seventy-five percent of the games workers laid off since mid-2008 are from North America; the rest are are in Europe and Asia. The job losses represent a 12% cut in the gaming industry’s US workforce. At least 13 prominent [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft says it will lay off more workers, working toward its goal of cutting 5,000 jobs by mid-2010. The software giant announced in January that it would eliminate 5% of its 96,000-strong global workforce. Founded in 1975, Microsoft Corporation is a multinational computer technology corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of [...]
Continue reading...Monday, April 13, 2009
Microsoft General Counsel Brad Smith has confirmed to the press that Washington State’s Microsoft will cut 3,600 positions over the next 18 months. That’s in addition to the 1,400 laid off in January. The company will add up to 3,000 jobs in key areas, such as search technology. Smith has launched a Microsoft initiative to help the unemployed [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Microsoft may create up to 3,000 jobs as it raises investment in research and development by $1 billion this year. “Realignment of the company will help us reassign people, and could allow us to create some 2,000 to 3,000 new jobs,” CFO Kevin Turner told attendees at CeBit, Europe’s biggest technology trade fair. Turner said while Microsoft [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Microsoft is looking to help people brush up on their job skills during the recession. On Sunday, the software industry giant unveiled Elevate America, a program designed to give Americans the technology skills necessary to survive in the modern job market. The program will help up to 2 million people learn everything from sending emails and [...]
Continue reading...Monday, February 23, 2009
Microsoft, the world’s largest software maker, has begun the process of cutting thousands of jobs over the next year and a half, and now they want some of the severance pay back. An accounting error has caused Microsoft to send a letter to some of the 1,400 workers laid off last month. The letter said the [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, February 5, 2009
Despite the fact that 2008 was a landmark year in the gaming industry, 2009 is showing signs of trouble ahead. On Tuesday the world’s largest video game developer, Electronic Arts, announced that it will close twelve facilities and lay off over 1,000 employees to prepare for uncertainty in the economy. The [...]
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