The Statesman | May 6, 2011 | Kirk Ladendorf
Altera Corp. said Thursday that it is setting up a semiconductor design center in Austin that it expects will employ "several hundred engineers" within the next few years.
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While Silicon Valley seems to have been recovering steadily from the effects of the economic downturn, some worry the area may be in for a “double dip” as the region saw an unexpected drop in job creation in May.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics...
According to an alliance of IBM Corp. (IBM) workers for the union organization Alliance@IBM, the technology kingpin is slashing jobs across the country, which includes the possibility that Austin will be affected.
The alliance is affiliated with the Communication Workers of America, and alleges that...
The Hindustan | May 26, 2011 | Vivek Sinha
Gung-ho on the phenomenon of ‘cloud computing’, Steve Ballmer, the CEO of software giant Microsoft, said it will help generate 300,000 jobs in India over the next five years. Speaking at a CII event in New Delhi...
The Hindustan | May 26, 2011 | Vivek Sinha
Gung-ho on the phenomenon of ‘cloud computing’, Steve Ballmer, the CEO of software giant Microsoft, said it will help generate 300,000 jobs in India over the next five years. Speaking at a CII event in New Delhi...
Silicon Valley is seeing a tech induced job recovery of late, with the California Employment Development Department noting that every major industry except construction added jobs in March and April 2011.
Social media firms such as Facebook, deal sites like Groupon, Internet giants like Google...
Silicon Valley is seeing a tech induced job recovery of late, with the California Employment Development Department noting that every major industry except construction added jobs in March and April 2011.Social media firms such as Facebook, deal sites like Groupon.....
Telecom jobs nationwide continued to inch down, while jobs in the semiconductor space continued to ramp up in April, a consistency seen throughout 2011.Nationwide, nonfarm payroll employment increased by 244,000 positions in April, but the unemployment rate inched up to 9%, the U.S. Bureau...
Bloomberg | April 28, 2011 | Mariko Yasu
Panasonic Corp. (6752), the world’s largest maker of plasma televisions, plans to eliminate almost 17,000 jobs over two years as part of an overhaul to restore profitability to levels before the global financial crisis.
The workforce will drop at...
Bloomberg | April 14, 2011 | Manuel Baigorri
Telefonica SA (TEF) may cut its workforce in Spain by about 20 percent within the next three years as the country’s former phone monopoly targets growth in Latin America to make up for declining sales in its home market.
Telefonica,...
Bloomberg | April 13, 2011 | Manuel Baigorri
Telefonica SA (TEF), Spain’s former phone monopoly, forecast revenue growth of at least 1 percent annually through 2013 and budgeted as much as 27 billion euros ($39 billion) in spending as part of its Latin American push.
Group sales...
The expansion of mobile broadband services in India looks to have received a boost from the formation of a collaborative effort of the country’s Minister for Communications and Information Technology, the GSMA, the Cellular Operators of India organization and the Telecoms Regulatory Authority of...
Jobs in the computer and electronics products sector continued to trend upward in February, according to information released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Positions in the telecommunications space continued to trend downward year over year.The computer sector saw 23,900 jobs added from...
Jobs in the computer sector improved in 2010, as did the overall economy, although the telecommunications sector did not fare as well, according to figures from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.Companies in the IT engineering and telecom spaces were slow out of the...
With 200 million mobile users and counting, it really was about time for Facebook to try and cash in on the burgeoning mobile advertising bandwagon – something it appears ready to do after the acquisition of Seattle hyperlocal ad startup Rel8tion.
With the end of 2010, I’ve been reflecting on the past decade and all that has changed. It seems impossible to me that 2000 was over 10 years ago; not in that “Wow where has the time gone?” sense but rather in a “I...
Telecommunications jobs fell in December, both from the previous month and for the year. However, employment in the wireless sector ticked up a few hundred jobs.Overall, the nation’s unemployment rate fell by 0.4 percentage point to 9.4% in December, according to the U.S. Bureau...
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Tuesday, December 14, 2010 | By NOELLE NICOLLS | Tribune Staff Reporter
UNIONS representing BTC employees will attempt to have an injunction lifted when they appear in court today.
The court order was issued last week after a successful petition by BTC, which claimed the unions were responsible...
Online freelance employment site Elance came out with its end of year employment trends, noting a 98% increase in the number of jobs posted on the site by businesses seeking mobile developers this year. Not surprisingly, Elance said it expects that growth to continue...
CTIA announced its 2011 officers and said six new members have been elected to its executive committee. The new officers are Dan Hesse, CEO of Sprint Nextel; Pat Riordan, president and CEO of Cellcom; Mary Dillon, president and CEO of U.S. Cellular; and Bret...
Employment in the computer and electronic products sector remained flat month to month, up just 700 jobs to employ 1.1 million positions in the space, according to new data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Surprisingly, the only sector that showed growth was...
Apple is hiring up an army of legal beagles to help it in its fight against other smart phone makers, as the giants of the mobile space begin to slug it out in the International Trade Commission’s courts.
