Martin County School Board seeks efficiency study
STUART — The Martin County School Board agreed Tuesday to fill four "critical need positions" but delayed action on two high-profile job openings until completion of a districtwide efficiency study the members commissioned.
Nokia Siemens job cuts hit Germany, Finland
(Reuters) - Nokia Siemens Networks, the world's No.2 maker of mobile telecoms network equipment, plans to cut 4,100 jobs in its home countries of Finland and Germany as part of a cost-cutting drive aimed ...
Obama 'Hangs Out' on Google+, Morphs Into Job Recruiter
In his first-ever video chat on Google's social network, the president talks jobs, online piracy, and asks an unemployed engineer's wife to send over her hubby's resume.
AMR wants to cut 13,000 jobs, pensions
(Reuters) - AMR Corp, the parent of bankrupt American Airlines, wants to slash 13,000 jobs and terminate employee pension plans as part of a cost-cutting strategy the carrier says is necessary to compete with rivals. The cuts detailed by executives on Wednesday would be part of overall efforts to reduce operating expenses by more than $2 billion annually. Layoffs and other employee-related cuts ...
Amazon's Kindle Fire: The next gaming console?
Amazon.com has been quietly recruiting game developers, posting dozens of jobs on its site. P.J. McNealy, founder of Digital World Research, believes that Amazon is amassing resources to potentially become a force in mobile social gaming.
Sony’s Hirai Vows to Deliver Stringer Vision With Cost Cuts
When Sony Corp.’s 2006 release of PlayStation 3 flopped because features installed by the engineer who founded the business made the games console too expensive, Chief Executive Officer Howard Stringer tapped Kazuo Hirai to turn the division around.
Obama Asks for Fort Worth Engineer's Resume
A woman's video chat with the president on a social media network could help her husband find a job.
The real way to build a social network
Forget Dale Carnegie. He understood how important connections were, but missed out on the authenticity part -- which, say Reid Hoffman and Ben Casnocha, authors of The Start-Up of You, is the key to building a truly helpful professional network. Here's how to leverage that network into the career you only dreamed of.
Insurance A Focus Of This Week’s Job Openings
More companies are posting jobs this week at the CBS Detroit's Job Desk HiredMYway.com Web site.
Start-Up Nicira Plans to Disrupt Networking Giants
A small company called Nicira and a few other scrappy players are pursuing what is called software-defined networking. Software-defined networking is similar to server virtualization, and it is quite likely to be bad news for networking giants like Cisco and Juniper. If proprietary systems can be blended, and cheap chips used in place of custom ships, prices for the gear will probably drop.