Wipro office in Hyderabad has directed its employees returning from overseas assignments to report to work 48 hours after their arrival. These two days will be paid leaves for them. Given that of the 34 confirmed cases of swine flu so far, most have been techies, the city’s IT firms have stepped up their swine [...]
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10 Apr
After Yahoo 360, Yahoo closing another venture Yahoo Mash. Google following yahoo and closed Google Lively.
Here’s another Yahoo service which got smashed in front of competition. Yahoo’s social networking site Mash was shutdown after one year of its launch. The social site was supposedly pitched in competition to Facebook. Mash was launched in September 2007 while the Yahoo 360 was launched in 2005. In July 2008 Google launched Google Lively, [...]
1 Apr
Good news for Enterpreneurs. Approach Google Ventures for Investment in your ideas.
Following other Silicon Valley companies with a division to invest in promising start-ups, Google has launched Google Ventures. Announcing the launch Google Ventures managing partners Rich Miner and Bill Maris, wrote in a blog post, “This is Google’s effort to take advantage of our resources to support innovation and encourage promising new technology companies.” “By [...]
3 Mar
Compilation of Layoffs in Technology, IT Companies worldwide except India.
Google, Microsoft, Texas Instruments, IBM, Intel, AMD, EMC Corp, Seagate, STMicroelectronics, Sony, Sun, Dell, Lenovo, AT&T, AOL, SAP, Oracle, Ericsson, and Sprint Nextel layoff loads of employees from their offices world wide. Google Inc has jettisoned over 5,000 temporary workers in a recent austerity drive spurred by the recession. Google acknowledged in late November that [...]
27 Feb
Apple, Google, Cisco, Visa among 10 American companies that won't be cutting jobs.
Good news finally. After string of fresh Layoff news from JP Morgan, TCS and HCL, there are reports that few good companies will not layoff. Bucking the recessionary trend, US corporates Apple, Google and Colgate are doing so well that they are unlikely to fire their employees Take a look at the ten American companies [...]
15 Jan
Google is also laying off 100 recruiter jobs and closing few offices across the world.
Google Inc said it will lay off 100 full-time recruiters and close three engineering offices, the latest sign that the weak economy has not spared one of the technology industry’s most resilient companies. In a post on Google’s official blog on Wednesday, Laszlo Bock, Google’s vice president of people operations, said the Mountain View, California-based [...]
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