webguild.org - 11/24/2008
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Google has been quietly laying off staff and up to 10,000 jobs could be on the chopping block according to sources. Since August, hundreds of employees have been laid off and there are reports that about 500 of them were recruiters for Google.
By law, Google is required to report layoffs ...
images.google.com - 11/19/2008
googleblog.blogspot.com - 11/20/2008
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googleblog.blogspot.com —
In July we launched Lively in Google Labs
because we wanted users to be able to interact...
with their friends and express themselves online in new ways. Google has always been supportive of this kind of experimentation because we believe it's the best ...
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Official Google Blog: Lively no more
technology.timesonline.co.uk - 11/21/2008
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technology.timesonline.co.uk —
Google is considering pre-installing its Chrome browser on
personal computers in the search giant s latest challenge...
to the dominance of Microsoft s Internet Explorer. The move would significantly ramp up the browser war that Google launched against ...
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Google mulls pre-installing Chrome browser on computers
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Google Layoffs - 10,000 Workers Affected
DriverHeaven.net —
... Google has been quietly laying off staff and up to 10,000 jobs could be on the chopping block according to sources.
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Source: Webguild ...
Google Layoffs: 10,000 Jobs Being Cut, Report Claims
Today @ PC World —
[image] Google may be preparing to lay off thousands of workers, if a Silicon Valley information service is to be believed. WebGuild cites anonymous inside sources as saying up to 10,000 Google jobs could be on the way out, with smaller scale layoffs already underway. Quiet Cutbacks "Hundreds" of employees have been let go in the past few months, the company's sources claim -- and, they say, a loophole has allowed Google to keep quiet about the cutbacks. The trick, WebGuild reports, all comes down to categories: Google classifies about 10,000 of its workers as "temporary ...
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