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HP Board Once Again Rejects Xerox’s Advances

We are still not interested. HP's board of directors once again rejects an unsolicited takeover approach from Xerox, saying it…

5 years ago

Google Accused By US Union Of Illegally Firing Staff

Staff issues. Communications Workers of America union files federal labour charge against Google over its firing of four members of…

5 years ago

Google Fires Four Staffers For Data Policy Violations

But staff activists allege that Google fired the four employees in attempt to quash workers attempts to organise protests

5 years ago

Dyson Axes Plan For Electric Car, 500 Jobs At Risk

Despite receiving government funding, Dyson says electric car project is not “commercially viable”

5 years ago

Robots To Replace 20 Million Factory Jobs

Rise of the robots! Automation to replace ten millions of jobs in next 11 years, report warns

5 years ago

AI To Create Jobs, Claims PwC Report

Artificial intelligence will create as many jobs as it displaces by boosting economic growth, says analyst

6 years ago

Google Staff Quit Over Military Drone Project

Project Maven with Pentagon sees 4,000 Google staff petition management against it, with some resigning in protest

7 years ago

Report Alleges IBM Age Discrimination With Layoffs

Big Blue allegedly flouts rules against age bias, axing mostly older staff and moving jobs overseas

7 years ago

IT Firm Head Apologises For ‘Joke’ Suggesting Labour Voter Redundancies

Storm Technologies Boss said email claiming Labour voters would be let go if business slowed down was just banter

8 years ago

Amazon To Cut Jobs At Quidsi Family Technology Division

Efforts to return Amazon's Quidsi unit to profitability fail, so hundreds of jobs will be terminated

8 years ago

Oracle’s Growing Cloud Focus Leads To Another Mass Jobs Cull

Hardware and software developers face the axe as growing cloud focus results in casualties

8 years ago

Enterprises Need To Consider The Human Cost Of Blanket Digital Transformation

OPINION: The speed of change could leave thousands out of work and without the right skills

8 years ago

Fujitsu To Cut 1,800 UK Jobs In 2017

But the Brexit is not to blame, Japanese giant claims

8 years ago

M&S Confirms HQ Job Cull And IT Jobs Move

Bad news for the capital: Marks & Spencer to move IT and logistic jobs away from London

8 years ago

IBM Claims It’s Hired 30,000 Staff As Non-Cloud Workers Get The Boot

Internal email describes massive hiring spree as IBM's "resource planning" scoops up skills for cloud and cognitive computing

8 years ago

IBM Prepares Massive Round Of Job Cuts

P45 time for US staffers at IBM as reports emerge of large scale layoffs with reduced severance packages

9 years ago

BlackBerry Cuts Yet More Jobs

Layoffs at company’s home-town plant will help BlackBerry ‘improve efficiency’

9 years ago

Yahoo Cuts Workforce By 15 Percent As Part Of ‘Strategic Growth’ Plan

Yahoo looks to save £278m annually as Internet business sale is mulled over

9 years ago

EMC Prepares Layoffs To Save £580m

Ahead of Dell acquisition, EMC will enact a "reduction in force" throughout 2016 to save cash

9 years ago

Toshiba Predicts Record-Breaking $4.5bn Loss

Troubled electronics giant will also cut nearly 7,000 jobs as its struggles continue

9 years ago

Evernote Shuts Down Three Offices, Lays Off 47 Staff

Evernote CEO pens restructuring blog post and as the productivity app looks to make more revenue

9 years ago

HP To Cut 30,000 Jobs In Enterprise Unit

Yet more job misery for HP staff ahead of corporate split, with total job losses set to reach 80,000

9 years ago

Samsung Planning Major Workforce Cuts

Korean giant plans staff cuts in its back-end workforce in the face of increasing smartphone competition

9 years ago

BlackBerry Confirms More Job Cuts

More jobs to go as John Chen’s BlackBerry restructuring bites hard

9 years ago

Microsoft Confirms Major Job Cuts

7,800 workers to lose their jobs as Microsoft also writes off £4.9bn from Nokia Devices takeover deal

9 years ago

PayPal, eBay To Remain Friends After Spin-off

PayPal and eBay will separate later this year, but will remain joined at the hip for at least five years

10 years ago

HP CEO Meg Whitman Set To Get Massive Payout If Fired

HP boss Meg Whitman will also sit pretty if the company is ever acquired, new data from UBS finds

10 years ago

SAP Forecasts Further Cloud Job Cuts

2,000 employees will get the axe amidst SAP's continued cloud pivoting, with early retirement and voluntary severance programs to be…

10 years ago

Sony To Cut 1,000 Mobile Jobs

Losses come under increased competition in the mobile market from the likes of Samsung and Apple

10 years ago

Foxconn To Downsize Workforce Amidst Shrinking Sales Growth

Apple-supplier Foxconn also battling with rising workers' wages in China

10 years ago