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While many mobile devices makers, such as Apple and Samsung, are seeing record sales and ever-increasing revenues, Canadian firm Research In Motion are in the midst of a pronounced downward slide, which has today seen them announce a management restructuring and large-scale redundancies totalling around 11% of their workforce.

Though this month’s job figures for tech employees in Silicon Valley remained fairly constant, a new report claims the area is in for a whopping 15% employment surge over the …

Cisco is planning to fire 7000 workers by the end of August, with an additional 3000 taking voluntary resignation according to Bloomberg News. The massive cuts – representing around 14% …

Europe’s second-largest phone company Telefónica (TEF) reached an agreement with Spanish labor unions to cut up to 6,500 jobs over the next three years. In its statement, the telecom company …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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.

The talent shortage in Silicon Valley only seems to be getting worse. Following a series of high-profile departures from Google (mostly in the direction of Facebook), and talks of some big-money deals going on in an effort to retain staff. There was a story going round (completely unconfirmed, of course) that Google gave a senior engineer $3.5million in stock to stop them leaving for Facebook.