Ramolimendos » silicon Valley http://ramolimendos.com Tue, 07 Apr 2009 05:05:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 en hourly 1 Layoffs in US tech companies! http://ramolimendos.com/2008/10/layoffs-in-usa-october-2008/ http://ramolimendos.com/2008/10/layoffs-in-usa-october-2008/#comments Fri, 24 Oct 2008 21:06:37 +0000 ramolimendos http://www.redroom.gr/?p=340

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 Silicon Alley Insider
    Yahoo October 21, 2008 Sunnyvale, CA 1,500 10% TechCrunch
    Eons October 20, 2008 Boston, MA 8 24% Boston Globe
    Wikia October 20, 2008 San Mateo, California 3 10% TechCrunch
    Meraki October 20, 2008 San Francisco, CA 10 20% TechCrunch
    Break.com October 20, 2008 Los Angeles 11 12% CNet
    Pandora October 17, 2008 Oakland, CA 20 TechCrunch
    Zillow October 17, 2008 Seattle, WA 35 TechCrunch
    SearchMe October 17, 2008 Mountain View, CA 11 20% VentureBeat
    Heavy October 17, 2008 New York, NY 12 Silicon Alley Insider
    Jaxtr October 17, 2008 Menlo Park, CA 13 TechCrunch
    Appcelerator October 17, 2008 Atlanta, GA 6 CNET
    Sirius XM October 17, 2008 Washington, DC 50 CNET
    Adbrite October 16, 2008 San Francisco, CA 40 TechCrunch
    hi5 October 16, 2008 San Francisco, CA 15 13% TechCrunch
    Zivity October 16, 2008 San Francisco, CA 7 TechCrunch
    Tesla Motors October 15, 2008 San Carlos, CA Tesla Motors
    Jive Software October 14, 2008 Portland, OR 40 TechCrunch
    Qimonda October 14, 2008 Worldwide 3,000 22% Financial Times
    Redfin October 13, 2008 Seattle, WA 20% Redfin
    Seesmic October 10, 2008 San Francisco, CA 7 TechCrunch
    Lulu October 9, 2008 Raleigh, NC 24 24% News & Observer
    eBay October 3, 2008 San Jose, CA 1,500 10% TechCrunch
    Gawker Media October 3, 2008 New York, NY 19 14% New York Times
    Sony Ericsson September 29, 2008 RTP, NC 450 Triangle Buisness Journal
    Autobytel September 26, 2008 IRVINE, Calif 75 33% Kelsey Blog
    NeoMagic Corporation September 24, 2008 Santa Clara 90 90% Bizjournals
    Nvidia September 18, 2008 Santa Clara, CA 360 6% NetworkWorld

    Source: Tech Crunch

    ]]>     http://ramolimendos.com/2008/10/layoffs-in-usa-october-2008/feed/ 0     Yahoo fires the 10% of its employees! http://ramolimendos.com/2008/10/yahoo-fires-the-10-of-employees/ http://ramolimendos.com/2008/10/yahoo-fires-the-10-of-employees/#comments Tue, 21 Oct 2008 22:38:01 +0000 ramolimendos http://www.redroom.gr/?p=322

    This morning, all the employees of Yahoo had a surprise email from their boss. Jerry Yang, CEO amd co-founder of Yahoo, sent an email to all the Yahoo’s employees worldwide.

    In the email Jerry Yang explained the reasons of his decision According to his words, Yahoo has to eliminate its costs by $400 millions!

    The big economic crisis affects also Silicon Valley, the place that US invests its 70%!

    ]]>     http://ramolimendos.com/2008/10/yahoo-fires-the-10-of-employees/feed/ 0     The eBay group of companies http://ramolimendos.com/2008/10/ebay-group-of-companies/ http://ramolimendos.com/2008/10/ebay-group-of-companies/#comments Fri, 17 Oct 2008 03:54:47 +0000 ramolimendos http://www.redroom.gr/?p=307

    eBay is one of the biggest companies in Silicon Valley. (Based in San Jose). The eBay group of companies has Skype, PayPal, Rent.com, half.com, Kijiji, ProStores, Shopping.com, StubHub and MicroPlace!

    eBay also expands its actions to Europe buying the two famous Denmark companies: DBA.dk and BilBasen.

    Last, we heard that in 2007 ebay sent to its users 18.000.000.000 emails. These emails were counted only for transactionals action. The marketing emails are were approximately another $5 billions!

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