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Google and Seagate cut staff while Microsoft weighs options
Google and Seagate cut staff while Microsoft weighs options
We woke up this morning to find somebody other than Steve Jobs at the helm of Apple and Palm reigning supreme as the new darling of the tech industry. Unfortunately, it's not the tech bubble year of 1996 -- it's the recession plagued start to 2009. So it's no surprise to hear that Google, ...
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informationweek.com — Seagate Technology is cutting thousands of jobs and slashing executive salaries by as much as 25%, as the disk-drive maker grapples with the economic downturn that has hammered sales of personal computers that use the company's products. In a ... (more) Seagate Cuts Jobs, Slashes Executive Salaries -- ...
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Job cuts sweep tech industry: Google, Motorola, Seagate, Sanyo, NEC & Microsoft affected
SlashGear — ... also cut 25-percent from the salary of the executive officers, including the CEO and executive VPs, the salaries of senior VPs by 20%; VPs, 15%; and management, sales, supervisors, and professional employees, 10%.  This will take place by the end of next month, and altogether - with job losses - save the firm $80m annually. Finally, Microsoft are reportedly considering “significant work force reductions” that are expected to go public as early as next week, possibly during the company earning call.  Previous rumors suggested that ...

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