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Cutbacks Push Dot-coms Toward Profits
News Martin Nisenholtz, chief executive of The New York Times Digital, says his division's turnaround has come with both cutbacks and rebuilding. Such financial discipline may eventually play well on Wall Street, but some media watchers worry that...
[January 9, 2002, 15:03]
650 UK Jobs Go In Alcatel Cutbacks
News French telecom equipment firm Alcatel announced late on Wednesday that over 3,000 staff would be made redundant by the middle of next year, including hundreds from its UK operations. The jobs will be lost from Alcatel's undersea and optical fibre...
[October 4, 2001, 16:38]
Yahoo! Beats Estimates But Cuts Staff
News We decided to be prudent and bring our cost base in line, so when the economy firms we can be in a position to take advantage of it," Yahoo Chief Executive Tim Koogle said in an interview, in which he downplayed the possibility of addition cutbacks.
[April 12, 2001, 8:15]
News Roundup: April Brings Showers Of Job Losses
News In each case, a slowdown in orders is one reason given for the cutbacks. While union leaders are warning companies to be cautious in their cutbacks, Dell chairman Michael Dell has admitted that his company overhired in the good times, forcing it to...
[April 19, 2001, 13:02]
Net Retailing Shakeout Hits Boo.com
News But while Boo claims that the cutbacks are a reflection of the seasonal nature of retailing, analysts are saying that the entire online retailing space is ripe for a shakedown. Sites, including Beyond.com and Value America, have announced cutbacks...
[January 27, 2000, 9:02]
How A Team Can Survive A Staff Cutback
News Given the future cutbacks, it can't finish everything it has going. I'm sure the first reflexes for many teams facing such cutbacks are shock and then a sense of sorrow. Suppose your internal development and support team is being dramatically...
[July 5, 2002, 15:27]
3Com Sees Slow Recovery From 2Q Letdown
News In addition to the telecom industry's spending cutbacks, the widely-reported PC slowdown could affect 3Com's business in the third quarter, Claflin said. 3Com warned of a wider-than-expected loss in its second quarter and told analysts not to...
[December 5, 2000, 10:00]
City Of Bloomington Increases Performance While Trimming Budget
White Papers When budgets are slim, many municipalities are forced to compensate with service cutbacks. But the City of Bloomington, Indiana (pop.continually looks for a better way. The City's Information Technology Services Department (ITSD), saw a recent...
[May 29, 2004, 0:00]
Autodesk Execs Take Salary Cuts
News We're pleased we're not losing market share to our competitors, but our overall business is significantly affected by our customers' spending cutbacks. In response to an ongoing revenue crunch, drafting and graphics software maker Autodesk has...
[July 16, 2002, 9:15]
IT Industry Morale Hits New Low
News Cutbacks, which at many organisations hit alongside greater expectations from IT, have taken their toll in the past two years. Maria Schafer, Meta's IT Human Capital Management Strategies programme director, said in a statement: "Working through...
[March 24, 2003, 8:47]
The Health Sector Human Resource Crisis In Africa: An Issues Paper
White Papers A complex set of factors has contributed to this problem, some exogenous, such as the austere fiscal measures introduced by structural adjustment, which often result in cutbacks in the number of health workers.
[May 25, 2005, 0:00]
Huge Number Of IT Jobs To Be Axed By 2008
News IT departments are set for major staff cutbacks over the next four years and can expect to see more than half of their jobs to be axed, according to research from Gartner. Gartner said that increasing pressure to deliver on business processes, and...
[October 18, 2004, 17:35]
IBM Begins Layoffs
News IBM began handing out pink slips to employees on Thursday, the first step in anticipated companywide cutbacks. IBM has notified approximately 1,000 employees in its server division that their jobs are being eliminated, according to a representative...
[May 24, 2002, 14:29]
Internet Incubator Hatches Job Cuts
News Idealab.com, the Internet incubator with offices in London and California, is the latest to suffer from job cutbacks. The firm, which helped start m-commerce company Scan and community site PeopleLink in the UK, has cut 30 of 120 staff in Pasadena...
[January 15, 2001, 15:41]
The Dangers Of Downsizing
News So when we started to consider cutbacks we realised we needed to create our own tools to help us with the process. We're a high-tech company," says Cindy Childers, a top manager at Acxiom, the $1bn maker of highly sophisticated database integration...
[September 20, 2001, 18:30]
Netscape Browser Left With Skeleton Staff
News The cutbacks at Netscape are more severe than had been indicated by AOL, which said on Wednesday it was laying off 50 employees involved in Web-browser development at Netscape. AOL Time Warner has left its Netscape subsidiary with almost no...
[July 17, 2003, 13:28]
Lycos Lays Off Fifth Of Staff
News As previously reported, the company began advertising space for lease at its office last week, in a sign of imminent cutbacks. Web portal Lycos laid off about 20 percent of its US staff on Wednesday, as it restructured its business.
[February 12, 2004, 15:20]
How To Prepare For Job Insecurity
News Personally, my contacts in the industry continue to talk about cutbacks and outsourcing at all levels, and everyone's opinion seems to be the direct opposite of the rosier picture this survey paints. In the short run, it is difficult to determine...
[December 2, 2004, 10:55]
NHS IT Chief Warns Against Local Budget Cuts
News In an exclusive interview with ZDNet UK sister site Silicon.com, Granger admitted IT is the "easiest budget to raid", but said he did not expect any cutbacks at trust level to have a significant impact on the 10-year CfH programme.
[May 26, 2006, 9:50]
Union Will Fight To Save UK Mobile Jobs
News The company blames slower growth in the telecommunications market for the cutbacks, but hasn't yet announced how many UK jobs will be affected. Union leaders will meet with Swedish mobile phone firm Ericsson early next week in an attempt to save UK...
[April 20, 2001, 13:48]
