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News The chipmaker then went through several rounds of layoffs and changed its CEO three times before refashioning itself into an intellectual property company last year. Transmeta, the chip designer that once tried to take... [12 Oct 2006]
Intel confirms 10,500 job cuts by mid-2007
News As first reported by silicon.com sister site CNET News.com, the layoffs primarily hit the marketing and IT departments. That number includes several layoffs and divestitures already announced by the... [06 Sep 2006]
CDMA scrap kills 500 Nokia jobs
News The layoffs are scheduled to take place in several waves between the end of 2006 and the middle of next year. Nokia is cutting around 500 jobs at its San Diego campus - half the workforce at that location - following its... [10 Aug 2006]
Sun culls hundreds more staff
News Sun's last quarter was unprofitable in part because of charges associated with the layoffs but the company reported revenue of $3.8bn, more than the $3.6bn Wall Street analysts expected. Sun Microsystems notified... [04 Aug 2006]
Intel revamps its upper echelons
News The management changes are one result, along with 1,000 manager layoffs and the sale of a communications chip unit to Marvell Technology Group. After two difficult financial quarters, Intel on Wednesday dramatically... [20 Jul 2006]
Intel swings jobs axe on 1,000
News An Intel spokesman confirmed the layoffs on Thursday, saying they would "both reduce costs and improve decision-making and communications". Intel will begin cutting about 1,000 manager jobs worldwide this week as part of... [14 Jul 2006]
Microsoft cuts 200-plus sales jobs
News The software maker has never had large-scale, across-the-board layoffs, though it has made selective job cuts in various business units in the past. Microsoft has said it is cutting about 200 jobs as part of a... [30 Jun 2006]
Sun to slash 4,000 jobs
News Sun said the bulk of the layoffs are expected to occur in the current quarter. The layoffs, in part, may not come as a surprise - given that Sun's former chief financial officer, Michael Lehman, was... [01 Jun 2006]
The Weekly Round-Up: 12.05.06
Round-Up NTL set up a conference call with the media to discuss the layoffs and wider corporate progress in detail earlier this week. Controversially, in some people's minds, many of the layoffs are on the... [12 May 2006]
NTL cuts 35 per cent of staff, talks up future
News This is the second round of large-scale layoffs for NTL, which reduced its workforce from 21,000 to 13,000 in 2001 in an effort to cut its then £14bn debt. NTL has today confirmed that 6,000 jobs will be cut from its... [09 May 2006]
McNealy steps down as Sun CEO
News But investors clamouring for major cost cuts through extensive layoffs are likely to be disappointed, Schwartz said. Sun Microsystems co-founder Scott McNealy has stepped down as chief executive, and has been replaced by... [25 Apr 2006]
Oracle-Siebel: Ellison's axe falls on 2,000 jobs
News The layoffs had been expected, with many observers thinking the cuts would hit Oracle's customer relationship management (CRM) employees the hardest. Oracle outlined its integration plans for Siebel Systems on Thursday,... [10 Feb 2006]
After the mega-merger: Siebel staff face post-Oracle cuts
News Other analysts - including WR Hambrecht's Robert Stimson and Sanford Berstein's Charles Di Bona - also anticipate layoffs. Stimson, meanwhile, predicted in his research note that he anticipates Oracle to "immediately... [09 Feb 2006]
Google squashes Napster buy rumour
News The report came hot on the heels of earlier suggestions, denied by Napster, that the company was preparing management layoffs and was facing up to possible liquidation, after struggling to steal market share from the... [01 Feb 2006]
Search giants slammed by media 'old guard'
News The move by WAN comes against a backdrop of layoffs, falling profits and shrinking readership at the world's newspapers. The internet has undercut the businesses of newspapers, book publishers and magazines for years and... [01 Feb 2006]
