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Robots To Replace 20 Million Factory Jobs
Rise of the robots! Automation to replace ten millions of jobs in next 11 years, report warns
AI To Create Jobs, Claims PwC Report
Artificial intelligence will create as many jobs as it displaces by boosting economic growth, says analyst
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
Report Alleges IBM Age Discrimination With Layoffs
Big Blue allegedly flouts rules against age bias, axing mostly older staff and moving jobs overseas
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
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
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
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
Fujitsu To Cut 1,800 UK Jobs In 2017
But the Brexit is not to blame, Japanese giant claims
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
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
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
BlackBerry Cuts Yet More Jobs
Layoffs at company’s home-town plant will help BlackBerry ‘improve efficiency’
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
EMC Prepares Layoffs To Save £580m
Ahead of Dell acquisition, EMC will enact a "reduction in force" throughout 2016 to save cash
Toshiba Predicts Record-Breaking $4.5bn Loss
Troubled electronics giant will also cut nearly 7,000 jobs as its struggles continue
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
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
Samsung Planning Major Workforce Cuts
Korean giant plans staff cuts in its back-end workforce in the face of increasing smartphone competition
BlackBerry Confirms More Job Cuts
More jobs to go as John Chen’s BlackBerry restructuring bites hard
Microsoft Confirms Major Job Cuts
7,800 workers to lose their jobs as Microsoft also writes off £4.9bn from Nokia Devices takeover deal
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
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
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 offered
Sony To Cut 1,000 Mobile Jobs
Losses come under increased competition in the mobile market from the likes of Samsung and Apple
Foxconn To Downsize Workforce Amidst Shrinking Sales Growth
Apple-supplier Foxconn also battling with rising workers' wages in China
IBM Denies That It Will Be Cutting 110,000 Jobs
IBM calls the allegations "baseless" and "ridiculous", and says cuts are actually a small fraction of what's been reported
IBM ‘To Cut 111,000 Jobs’ In Biggest-Ever Round Of Corporate Layoffs
Cuts look to steady declining revenues, as IBM continues to seek leadership in the cloud
eBay Confirms Job Losses Amid Shareholder Pressure
Pressure from activist investor Carl Icahn forces eBay management to slash jobs and sell off assets