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Alcatel-Lucent (ALU) says that roughly one of every seven workers will be let go as the telecom equipment giant makes a last-ditch effort to turn its business around. About 20% …

Sprint is replacing two of its top executives, as the nation’s third largest carrier adjusts to new ownership by Softbank and increased competition from T-Mobile US. Chief marketing officer Bill …

The contrast could not be more stark: This weekend while Apple was selling a record nine million iPhones and while 200 million iOS users were downloading iOS 7, the company …

BlackBerry (BBRY) is reportedly planning deep cuts in its workforce just as it launches a new smartphone and extends its popular BBM service to the iOS and Android platforms. As …

For the second time this year, Google’s Android unit is losing a key executive. Hugo Barra, vice president of product management at Android, is leaving Google to take a position …

Amazon is clearly interested in Windows, or at least in executives who have worked with the mobile version of the operating system. The online retail giant has hired another Windows …

Cisco (CSCO) is clearly in the process of transforming its business, and the changes are prompting the networking giant to shift its workforce. CEO John Chambers says that in order …

If chips are the brains inside mobile devices, the software embedded in those chips is like neurons firing faster than thought. “The chip is managed by software,” said Jonathan Langley, …

LinkedIn (LNKD) is working to boost its mobile traffic in general, and its job search traffic in particular. Today the company announced new features for its iOS and Android apps …

Software is becoming a key differentiator for mobile devices and networks, and companies throughout the wireless ecosystem are competing for software talent. Carriers, device manufacturers, chip makers, and test and …

Brazil’s information and communications technology companies are facing a shortage of skilled labor. As RCR Wireless News reported previously, in January alone there were about 1,000 open ICT positions in the …

Google will lay off another 1,200 Motorola Mobility employees, or 10% of the company’s remaining workforce. The cuts will impact workers in the United States, China and India. They are …

With less than three months to go until graduation, many college students are hard at work fine tuning their resumes and scheduling job interviews. And companies from across the mobile …

As the world’s largest chipmaker shifts its product line to win more business from mobile device makers, it is also shifting leadership at the top. The latest word on Intel’s …

Several Brazilian companies have chosen to invest in employee training to deal with the lack of technically skilled job applicants. This strategy has also been used to reduce employee turnover, …

VMware is shifting skill sets by cutting some jobs and adding others. The company also says it wants to make more acquisitions.

Dish Networks (DISH) plans to close 300 more Blockbuster stores and could lay off as many as 3,000 people, according to the Wall Street Journal. The satellite tv service provider …

Brazil has a huge shortage of information and communications technology (ICT) professionals. There are many reasons for the shortage including: universities graduating fewer people than enterprises need; professionals migrating from …

The Brazilian telecommunications market is heating up, boosted by data consumption growth and the start of LTE implementation, and it is having a direct effect on the labor market. More …