Thursday, January 29, 2009

Depresing or Depression?



 

http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/22/recession-roundup-sony-warns-of-1-7b-loss-other-companies-not/

Read - Sony, Warning of Annual Loss, Escalates Cost-Cutting plan
Read - Samsung may report first ever quarterly loss
Read - LG Electronics Posts $487 Million Loss 
Read - TomTom Cost-cutting program (about 7 percent of their global workforce)

Read - Seagate to lay off up to 800 local workers

http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/28/recession-roundup-volume-eleventeen-zillion/

Read - Texas Instruments cutting jobs (12 percent of its workforce)
Read - Panasonic to cut 560 jobs, close plants
Read - IBM, HP quietly cut thousands of jobs (rumored at nearly 16,000
for IBM and nearly 25,000 people for HP)
Read - Best Buy plans layoffs at headquarters (hard numbers in Feb)

http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/26/recession-roundup-monday-morning-edition/

Read - Sun confirms 1,300 layoffs (the first wave of a total of 6,000 planned job cuts)
Read - Sprint Nextel Plans to Cut 8,000 Jobs in Quarter


Read - Philips to Release 6000 Employees into Wild
Read - Several IBM employees report being laid off on Alliance@IBM (rumored at nearly 16,000)

Read - IBM Confirms Layoffs
Read - AMD Reports $1.4 Billion Loss

http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/29/recession-roundup-volume-oh-nevermind/

Read - Kodak posts loss, to cut up to 4,500 jobs
Read - Toshiba reports Q3 loss
Read - Sony's quarterly net profits tumble 95 percent

Read – Ford Credit to cut 1,200

Read – Starbucks cuts nearly 7,000 more jobs

ReadGOOD NEWS Amazon beats Wall Street Estimates (profits rose 9% - “best ever”)

Read – AOL axing 700 jobs

Read – Airlines see losses continue

Read – Recovery, when it comes, will be slow and weak


MSNBC “Eye on the Economy”

Google News Job Cut’s

Wall Street Journal Job Cut’s


Thursday, January 3, 2008

no end in sight to banking crisis

http://seekingalpha.com/article/58758-no-end-in-sight-to-banking-crisis

"...A few weeks ago I watched the documentary No End in Sight

Tuesday, July 10, 2007

hello world!

ok so that is the world famous hello world test program...

no, I am not really a programmer, I dabble here and there...

I don't have anything earthshattering to say today and the kids are getting wild so I am going to go.


talk to you later