The unemployment issue is getting bigger and serious! These are some of the Tech companies that fire 19,556 employees.
Total Layoffs: 36
Total Employees: 19,556

Company
Date
Location
#
%
Source

Haute Secure
October 23, 2008
Seattle
3
50%
TechCrunch

XeroxCorp
October 23, 2008
world-wide
3,000
5%
WSJ

Cake Financial
October 23, 2008

30%
internal blog

Mercent
October 22, 2008
Seattle
6
12%
Seattle Times

Dell
October 22, 2008
Round Rock, Texas
8,900

Reuters

imeem
October 22, 2008
San Francisco, CA
20
25%
TechCrunch

Mahalo
October 22, 2008
Santa Monica, CA
6
10%
TechCrunch

TicketMaster
October 22, 2008
New York, NY
300
5%
Billboard.biz

Veoh
October 21, 2008
St. Petersburg, Russia
15

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