VentureBeat:
We’ve been a little behind with roundup lately. Our apologies. Here’s the latest action:Barnes & Noble Nook sold out — The bookseller’s entry into the eBook reader market is under way. The B&N Nook is out of stockk on the com (Read More)
GigaOM:
Layoffs are cropping up all over the tech industry, with workers at companies ranging from AOL to Adobe to Microsoft getting pink slips. But while most people know to turn to the big online job boards and social networks rang (Read More)
NY Post:
ALBANY – Gov. Paterson warned today that he’s considering everything from furloughs to layoffs to delayed payment state bills as he faces a recalcitrant Legislature unwilling to cut state spending.To emphasize his point, Pate (Read More)
feeds.reuters.com:
Several media reporters wrote on Twitter on Thursday that this was one of the worst weeks in journalism, and it’s hard to argue with them. BusinessWeek is canning a third of its staff as Bloomberg gets ready to buy the magazi (Read More)
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed:
ALBANY, N.Y. — New York lawmakers headed home Thursday without agreement on how to address the state's fiscal crisis.The Legislature was in session all week – at a cost of about $70,000 a day – but couldn't agree on how to cl (Read More)
Gawker:
In your ferocious Friday media column: Newspaper wars in Germany are of another breed, another high school paper censored for dumb reasons, more on the BusinessWeek layoffs, and George Stephanopoulos' fluff chops questioned. (Read More)
SF Gate:
More than 50 Steel of West Virginia Inc. workers will be out of work by the end of November. President Tim Duke said the layoffs of 53 workers will leave the company with about 300 employees. Duke attributed the layoffs to a (Read More)
Reuters:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of mass layoffs reported by U.S. employers fell last month from September, a government report showed on Friday, suggesting job losses were close to bottoming.
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SF Gate:
The financial picture at BART is growing darker, as it is with many government agencies, but the transit district hopes it can stave off more layoffs - or service cuts and fare increases - by using some of its federal economi (Read More)
Gawker:
The long-expected BusinessWeek layoffs came down yesterday, with 130 staffers let go—a full third of its employees. Is it fair to call that a "surprise?" When Bloomberg bought BW last month, expectations were grim—one prelimi (Read More)
Gawker:
We've updated (hopefully for the last time) our AP Layoffs List with the final flood of tips that came in late yesterday and this morning. A few final thoughts on the list, for those AP people still checking it: 1. Our map of (Read More)
NY Post:
Just 48 hours after threatening layoffs, Mayor Bloomberg turned good guy yesterday and defended city workers for providing "great services" -- and insisted they deserve the significant raises he's given them. (Read More)
The Guardian:
AOL plans to let 2,500 employees go in attempt to reduce costs $300 million annually We said last week that the cuts at the new AOL could go far deeper than the anticipated 1,000. At the time, execs declined comment but today (Read More)
Reuters:
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - If AOL's announcement on Thursday of another 2,500 job cuts is anything to go by, the painful layoffs that have ravaged the media industry over the past year are nowhere near over.
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The Huffington Post | Full News Feed:
An analysis of the U.S. Census Bureau's 2008 American Community Survey shows that the collective unemployment rate for four Chicago community areas ranked second in the nation among similarly sized geographic areas. (Read More)