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07 Aug 2009 16:37

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Biz, Tech: Are you an out-of-work journalist? Come a-knockin’ on AOL’s door

  • 1,500 journos hired by AOL in the last year source

16 Jun 2009 11:10

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Biz: With the Saab sale, Konenigsegg is about to get much bigger

  • 45 number of employees the luxury sports-car maker currently has
  • 3,400 number of employees the Swedish unit of bankrupt GM has source

26 May 2009 20:07

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Biz, Tech: If Facebook employees want to cash in, now’s the time

  • $100 million will be offered for stock cash-ins source

05 May 2009 09:04

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Biz, U.S.: Obama: The Cayman Islands are nice, but not as a tax haven

  • I want to see our companies remain the most competitive in the world. But the way to make sure that happens is not to reward our companies for moving jobs off our shores or transferring profits to overseas tax havens.
  • Barack Obama • Putting the fear of God yesterday into large corporations who have done this for years in an attempt to avoid U.S. taxes. Obama plans to put billions of dollars to work over the next decade – much of it in the form of IRS employees – to prevent tax havens. • source

10 Feb 2009 09:57

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Biz: GM is planning deep, deep layoffs

  • 10,000 salaried employees will get cut by General Motors. That’s 14% of its salaried work force.
  • 3,400 laid-off GM workers will be from the U.S. That’s 12% of the automaker’s domestic salaried work force. source