By Cecilia Kang Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, December 17, 2008 President-elect Barack Obama's call to bring high-speed Internet to all Americans has set off a scramble among service providers for a piece of the action. Building out networks to rural and underserved urban areas - with possible help...
GE Healthcare, a division of General Electric Co., today announced an unspecified number of job reductions to be spread across multiple locations and business operations. A brief statement issued early today gave no indication of the scope of the job reductions. "GE Healthcare is announcing plans to...
Chicago, Ill. - At a news conference Thursday, President-elect Barack Obama formally nominated former Senator Tom Daschle to be the next Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. He also announced that the South Dakota Democrat will lead a White House healthcare reform...
A new Dice Report out Tuesday suggests troubling times ahead for IT professionals. A survey of more than 1,000 IT hiring managers at corporations and recruiting firms reveals a toxic mix: fewer jobs in the next six months, the possibility of layoffs, a flattening of...
Scammers hijacked the Web site of Fiserv Inc.'s online bill-payment unit for a few hours last week, but the Brookfield company said Monday its systems weren't compromised and none of the data it holds was breached. The takeover occurred just after midnight last Tuesday, when some...
The 21st Century Tech President said Saturday morning that the U.S. will launch new investments in its infrastructure - including a boost of broadband accessibility - as part of a larger strategy to revitalize the economy and create jobs. President-elect Barack Obama said broadband connections...
Washington (MarketWatch) - U.S. nonfarm payrolls plunged by an astonishing 533,000 in November, the worst job loss in 34 years, the Labor Department reported Friday. It's only the fourth time in the past 58 years that payrolls have fallen by more than 500,000 in a month....
WASHINGTON (AP) — In a decision that could reshape the way banks and high-tech firms protect their intellectual property, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday that a man’s business concept was too vague for patent protection. The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit...
It will not because there has not been a large quantities of technology hiring as there were during the Internet bubble buildup in the late 1990s, according to what Tom Silver, the CMO of the technology jobs' website Dice told CIO.com. Given that U.S. government data...
A Chicago man was among those killed in widespread terrorist attacks in Mumbai, family members and the head of his Wisconsin-based company said Sunday. Sandeep "Sam" Jeswani, 43, of 1400 block of West Berwyn Avenue in the Andersonville neighborhood, died during the attacks, according to his...