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Amazon is on a hiring spree with plans to add 7,000 new employees
- Amazon recently announced plans to create more than 7,000 new jobs in the US. The additional help will be used to meet growing consumer demand across fulfillment centers in 17 cities as well as fill vacancies within their customer service…
Watch the first official "Jobs" trailer, a Steve Jobs bio-flick starring Ashton Kutcher
- Jobs, an upcoming biographical film aiming to depict the extraordinary life of former Apple CEO Steve Jobs, now has its very first official trailer. Originally due in April, it appears the film has been rescheduled for an August 16 debut.
Google admits job interview brainteasers were "waste of time", GPAs and test scores don't matter
- Remember the buzz regarding those absurdly difficult and often abstract questions Google proposed to prospective employees? The senior VP of People Operations at Google admits those challenging brainteasers -- ones like, "How many times a day does a clock's hands…
Made in America: Lenovo opens manufacturing facility in Whitsett, North Carolina
- Lenovo, the world's second largest PC company, hosted today a grand opening ceremony for the official opening of its 240,000-square-foot North Carolina production facility. The new production site serves as an example of a renewing interest in bringing high-tech manufacturing jobs…
Job growth in Silicon Valley has returned to dot-com boom levels
- Those in the market for a job in the field of technology might want to head out west to start their search. That’s because Silicon Valley’s job growth has returned to dot-com boom levels, according to new findings from the…
First clip from Steve Jobs biopic hits the web ahead of Sundance debut
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A minute-long clip featuring Ashton Kutcher as Steve Jobs and Josh Gad as Steve Wozniak from the upcoming indie film jOBS has hit the web today courtesy of Entertainment Weekly. The snippet is set in the parking garage at Hewlett Packard where Jobs...
Foxconn swaps humans for robots, US manufacturing slowly returns
- During summer 2011, CEO Terry Gou shared his vision of installing one million robots to help automate the most dangerous and menial tasks at Foxconn's facilities. Foxconn, by the way, manufactures many of the computers, tablets and phones sold by…
Steve Jobs biopic to debut at the Sundance Film Festival next year
- Sundance Institute has announced that jOBS, the biopic of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, will premiere at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival on January 27, 2013. The film will be shown out of competition on the last night of the event…
Social Jobs Partnership launches Facebook app with 1.7M open jobs
- A new Facebook application called the Social Jobs Partnership launched earlier today allows recruiters to post job listings directly on Facebook. This appears to be the same Facebook job board project that the Wall Street Journal touched on back during…
HP bumps layoffs up to 29,000, plans to invest more into R&D
- In May, HP announced it would be cutting 27,000 jobs worldwide or about seven percent of its total workforce. However, yesterday ZDNet broke down HP's 10-Q quarterly SEC filing which spells out the elimination of 2,000 more jobs than previously stated, making for…
RIM axes another 2,000 jobs as part of ongoing restructuring plans
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Struggling Canadian phone maker, Research In Motion has announced another 2,000 job cuts from its 16,500 strong worldwide workforce as part of the firms ongoing major restructuring plans, according to Canadian...
RIM rejected plan to license BlackBerry Messenger, loses sales executive
- According to the Wall Street Journal, RIM had considered but eventually rejected plans to license BlackBerry Messenger to handset competitors. BBM is an encrypted, proprietary, Internet-based messaging service that serves as an advanced substitute to the traditional SMS messaging offered…
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