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Microsoft has reportedly begun trimming (or slashing, depending on how you want to look at it) its workforce by letting go of a "small percentage" of employees who held marketing positions with the Redmond software giant as it looks to revamp and streamline its operations. The company didn't specific exactly how many employees were let go, though several reports have the number pegged at 200.
ZDNet's Mary-Jo Foley captured a tweet by Maher Al-Khaiyat (@mkhaiy), a Marketing Manager at Microsoft, announcing "major layoffs today as a result of marketing org restructuring," though it has since been removed. In a separate report, GeekWire claims to have confirmed with Microsoft that layoffs are now underway.
"Given the rapid changes in technology and the shifts in how our customers connect with Microsoft, great marketing is more important than ever to Microsoft’s future success," a Microsoft representative said in a statement, according to GeekWire. "We’re taking steps to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of our marketing, and to strengthen career paths for marketers at Microsoft. Some of these changes involved the reduction of a small percentage of marketing positions, to better align our resources with our business needs and clarify roles across the marketing function."
Microsoft recently reported record revenue of $20.89 billion for its second fiscal quarter ended December 31, 2011, up 5 percent from one year prior. Read more at.... |
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Thanks to the wonder of social networking, we're able to catch an early glimpse of PowerColor's upcoming 'LCS HD7970' graphics card. PowerColor posted a photo of the liquid cooled card on its Facebook page with a promise that "Something cool is coming soon!" That "something cool" is a Radeon HD 7970 videocard stripped of its air cooled heatsink and replaced with a single-slot full cover water block from EK Waterblocks.
It's pure eye candy for the time being; PowerColor chose not to satiate our enthusiast appetite with a spec reveal or any other information, such as a specific release date or price. But if we look at PowerColor's past LCS cards, we can reasonably surmise, or at least hope, this will come with a factory overclock.
You can check it out here. Read more at.... |
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Rolling your own rig is just as much about timing as it is part selection. Consider that around this time a year ago, hard drive makers were practically giving platters of storage away and backing them with longer warranties. Mother Nature ruined all that, and she's partially to blame for rising motherboard prices, which some industry sources predict are getting ready to spike.
DigiTimes has heard from its sources in the trenches that increases in the international price of copper and rising labor costs in China will result in motherboard price hikes to the tune of 10 percent or more. Motherboard prices already went up 5-10 percent in early 2011 because of increased material costs and labor shortages, and another 3-8 percent in April 2011 due to higher priced components resulting from the earthquake in northeastern Japan in March.
Motherboard makers, including Asus and Gigabyte, will initiate the next round of price hikes in the first quarter of 2011. Copper prices have gone up and so has the minimum monthly wage in China, which in turn have resulted in higher production costs. What's crummy about the timing is that Intel's Ivy Bridge is just around the corner. Read more at.... |
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