Around the Web 01.22.09: Sony posts big loss, IBM plans job cuts, Nokia forecasts grim sales
-- The global recession catches up with Sony. Bloomberg
-- IBM may be cutting jobs. Wall Street Journal
-- Nokia is having a bad day too. Barrons
-- Yahoo's revolving executive door. BoomTown
-- Watch out Wikipedia, here comes Britannica 2.0. Sydney Morning Herald
-- YouTube may let content partners sell their own ads. TechCrunch
-- T-Mobile uses YouTube to get down and viral. YouTube
-- Now you can watch videos in Gmail chat. Gmail blog
-- Cool new iPhone apps from Stanford students. TechCrunch
-- Y Combinator is going to raise kids and companies on the West Coast only. Y Combinator
-- Ever wanted to know why people stop following you on Twitter? Useqwitter
-- Obama's new-media team enters an old-media White House. Washington Post
-- Web accessibility helps everyone. Do It Myself
-- 15,300 things that tech blogger Robert Scoble likes. Scobleizer
-- And now for your moment of social graph zen. Geek&Poke
-- Jessica Guynn
Photo: Sony CEO Howard Stringer. Credit: Koji Watanabe / Getty Images
On Tuesday the 20-January-2009, IBM announced record profits and revenue of over $100B USD for 2008, that they beat the 4th street estimates and that they expect to meet or exceed the estimates for both 2009 and 2010. The following day they began laying off employees in the US. Are these jobs going to be off-shored? Chances are they will. IBM seems to be drastically reducing its US workforce. Some commentaries have said that it is easier to trim the workforce in the United States than in other countries. IBM continues to be evasive in the press refusing to comment. When is the LATimes, NYTimes or CNN going to confront them and make them acknowledge what they are doing?
This has to stop!!
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Posted by: Your Boy | January 28, 2009 at 11:28 AM