Tag Archive for: Layoffs

Genius registered CarlyFiorina.org domain to highlight former HP exec’s layoffs

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Shortly after former HP chief executive Carly Fiorina mentioned her interest in running in the 2016 U.S. presidential election during an MSNBC interview in December, Michael Link registered the unclaimed web domain CarlyFiorina.org and used it to shine a light on the now-official presidential hopeful’s accomplishments at Hewlett-Packard, The Hill reported today.

Link, who happens to be an assistant director of digital strategy at the Service Employees International Union, used the site to let the world know that Fiorina, who officially announced her campaign for the 2016 presidential election today, laid off 30,000 employees during her six-year tenure at the company. He visualized the layoffs with 30,000 corresponding frowny-face emoticons that take a hilarious amount of time to scroll through.

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Network World Colin Neagle

IBM Hong Kong gets more diplomatic about denying report of 100,000 looming layoffs

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Yesterday, Impact@IBMHK, “the official IBM Hong Kong blog,” went ballistic on longtime tech pundit Robert Cringley over his reporting that Big Blue stands ready to ax some 100,000 employees in a massive corporate reorg code-named Project Chrome.

Today, under the cover of equally unequivocal but more temperate denials from IBM spokespeople in the U.S., IBM Hong Kong has softened its tone.

Here’s what the IMB Hong Kong blog said yesterday:

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Network World Paul McNamara

IBM Hong Kong calls Cringely report of 100,000 layoffs ‘ludicrous;’ Cringely fires back

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Longtime technology pundit Robert Cringely on Jan. 22 reported that IBM this week will launch a massive corporate reorganization code-named Project Chrome that will result in 26% of its employees – more than 100,000 people — losing their jobs.

If this is true, they have yet to receive the memo at IBM Hong Kong, which this morning issued a press release via the agency Ketchum Hong Kong that while not naming Cringely called the author of the layoff rumor “an industry gadfly” and his reporting both “stupid” and “ludicrous.” I have contacted IBM corporate media relations here in the U.S. to see if it concurs with its Hong Kong colleagues and to make sure this un-IBM-like language was authorized. (The Wall Street Journal also cites an anonymous IBM source refuting the report.)

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Network World Paul McNamara

Microsoft boards-up research lab amid more layoffs

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Microsoft Research is shutting down its Mountain View, Calif., facility as part of a move that included a reported 2,100 more layoffs throughout the company.

Derek Murray, who identifies himself as a researcher of distributed systems at Microsoft Research on his Twitter account, tweeted that “Today they announced that the lab in Silicon Valley will be closing Friday.”

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Network World Tim Greene