Monster Worldwide a anuntat miercuri ca va cumpara site-ul de joburi de la Yahoo pentru 225 milioane de dolari, in contextul imbunatatirii pietei locurilor de munca, informeaza Reuters.
Tranzactia, care vine pe fondul unei rate de somajului de 10% in Statele Unite, va scoate Yahoo de pe piata joburilor online, lansand Monster in competitie doar cu [...]
For daring to steal fire from the Gods, it is said, Prometheus was chained to a rock and sentenced to having his liver pecked out by birds.
Steve Jobs can relate.
Not only did Apple come awfully close to losing Jobs over the last few months, but he will never be truly out of the woods.
The bottom [...]
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Billions of dollars in government loans to prop up General Motors and Chrysler won’t be enough. The companies, which have received $17.4 billion so far, filed plans with the government more than doubling that request to a staggering total of $39 billion.
The requests, made in government-required restructuring plans filed Tuesday, were accompanied by plans for [...]
Pfizer Inc. is buying rival drugmaker Wyeth in a $68 billion deal that will increase its revenue by 50 percent, solidfy its No. 1 rank in the troubled industry and transform it from a pure pharmaceutical company into a diversified health care giant.
At the same time, Pfizer announced cost cuts that include slashing more than [...]
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Microsoft says it will slash 5,000 jobs over the next 18 months as it reported an 11 percent drop in second-quarter profit.
The software giant said Thursday the moves were driven by deteriorating global economic conditions and lower client revenue, resulting from weakness in the PC market and a shift to lower-priced notebook models.
The Redmond, Wash.-based [...]
Men are losing their jobs at a faster rate than women during this economic downturn, according to USA Today.
Since the start of the recession (December 2007), unemployment for men has climbed to 7.2% (up from 4.4%), but for women it has only reached 5.9% (up from 4.3%), according to USA Today.
Now, ladies, don’t jump to [...]
Apple chief executive Steve Jobs is being treated for a “hormone imbalance” but is staying on as the firm’s head.
In a statement, Mr Jobs said he had been suffering from ill health for a number of months and had been losing weight throughout 2008.
“Doctors think they have found the cause: a hormone imbalance that has [...]
