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US job cuts : 55,000 jobs lost in a day

By Aditya Mhatre at 28 January, 2009, 1:24 am

While India celebrated republic day on Monday, 55000 (some reports suggest 86000) jobs were cut in the US in a single day. Some of the largest and strongest companies like Pfizer (8000), Caterpillar (20000 jobs), HomeDepot (7000), Texas instruments (3400), Sprint Nextel (8000), IBM (2800) cut jobs to reduce costs. These job cuts are across industries and across geographies.

Microsoft Zune Phone Soon

By Aditya Mhatre at 23 December, 2008, 1:13 am

Paul Thurrot of WinsuperSite (almost)confirmed the news that Microsoft is working on a Zune phone while on Windows Weekly (episode 87) Podcast and I say more power to microsoft. In my recent post on Digital Inspiration, I expressed my concern about not being able to replace my iPhone and I hope Microsoft does a good enough job with the Zune Phone. The Zune, according to me, has built in great social features in its music software. Its a bit sad that the product didnt really manage to grab as much attention.

Free templates for work

By Aditya Mhatre at 29 April, 2008, 8:21 am

With all the companies wanting to be standards compliant like CMMi, PMP and all other three letter quality initiatives, a lot of us spend time documenting our work. And when you are not documenting, you are either preparing for a presentation to validate the raise that you got or bitching about your boss while smoking a cigarette in the smoker’s zone. I really can’t help you with the smoking but can definitely point you to resources that’ll make your life easier and prettier with templates that you can use at work.

Yahoo acquisition - Will it be Microsoft or Google?

By Aditya Mhatre at 2 February, 2008, 9:18 am

This story has already been over reported in all sorts on only media but it is very difficult to hold myself back to write about it. So basically what happened was that Microsoft wrote a love letter to the Yahoo board saying that its is ready to pay $31 per share in cash or stock which if you do the numbers correctly comes to about $44 billion.

Digg on sale?

By Aditya Mhatre at 16 November, 2007, 8:09 am

About a year back, Kevin Rose, founder of Digg was on the cover of business Week magazine with the headline - “This kid is worth 60 Million”. But I have a good news and a bad news for you.