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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 18:08:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 16:13:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ken Schwaber, co founder of Scrum has come out with an online program to assess Scrum Knowledge.This assessment checks purely &#8220;What&#8221; scrum is all about. Here is the link to the program with the password http://www.scrum.org/scrum-assessment/ password : &#8220;assessment2&#8243; Posted in All Posts in This Section, Software Delivery Practice, Technology Tagged: Agile, Development Methodology, Scrum<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saching.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4470958&amp;post=504&amp;subd=saching&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Agile Project Management Tools</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 16:08:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[During the early days, while Agile methods popularity was still at infancy, there were hardly one or two project management tools that catered to the needs of Agilists. Nowadays, I hear atleast a new tool almost every other week. I thought let me list them out here. The following list has both Open source/freeware and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saching.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4470958&amp;post=746&amp;subd=saching&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>General Motors plans to cut 10,000 jobs at Opel and Vauxhall units across European region.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:09:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[General Motors plans to cut around 10,000 jobs at its European division Opel, GM vice president John Smith said on Wednesday after the US auto giant announced that it would retain control of the unit. GM wants to slash costs by 30 percent at Opel, a European unit that employs 55,000 people, Smith told European [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saching.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4470958&amp;post=623&amp;subd=saching&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Microsoft layoffs 5800 employees this year. 800 more job cuts than planned earlier.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:04:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft Corp said on Wednesday it is cutting a further 800 jobs across its operations, on top of 5,000 jobs already eliminated under a plan to reduce costs that was announced in January. A spokesman for the world&#8217;s largest software firm said the latest job cuts are spread across the company&#8217;s global operations, but about [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saching.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4470958&amp;post=621&amp;subd=saching&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mergers in pharmaceutical industry kicks off series of layoffs. Johnson &amp; Johnson, Pfizer, Wyeth, Schering-Plough and Merck &amp; Co announced more job cuts.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 05:15:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Johnson &#38; Johnson said it would eliminate as many as 8,200 jobs, or 7% of its work force, to help the company cope with what it expects will be a slow economic recovery amid damped demand for drugs, medical devices and consumer products. J&#38;J said the planned restructuring will eliminate 7,000 to 8,000 jobs and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saching.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4470958&amp;post=619&amp;subd=saching&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>RBS plans to cut 3,700 more UK jobs</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 05:04:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Royal Bank of Scotland said it would be forced to sell more assets than it had expected and axe 3,700 jobs from its retail business as another radical shake-up loomed for Britain&#8217;s banks. European competition authorities are set to force RBS to sell its insurance arm and over 300 branches, and shrink investment banking operations, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saching.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4470958&amp;post=615&amp;subd=saching&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>HSBC plans to cut 1,700 more UK jobs</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 05:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Europe&#8217;s biggest bank HSBC Holdings is cutting over 1,700 jobs in Britain, adding to thousands of cuts across the industry in the last year as pressure builds to reduce costs. HSBC said 1,726 jobs are being cut, mostly due to a restructuring of branch network management and a consolidation of its collections and cards operations. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saching.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4470958&amp;post=611&amp;subd=saching&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Need for matured developers in Agile Teams – A Myth</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:24:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have heard many times from in-experienced scrum coaches saying Agile projects need matured team members. The Big myth The above statement is as big a myth as the one which says Agile projects follow no documentation The answers I got… I had asked one of those in-experienced scrum coaches the following questions,   What [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saching.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4470958&amp;post=498&amp;subd=saching&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Capgemini is planning to hire 3000 in Bangalore in near future.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:47:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Capgemini is planning to add upto 3000 staff in India with the opening of a new business information centre in Bangalore. The Bangalore centre will take the company&#8217;s India headcount beyond 21,000, an increase from its employee strength of 20,000 in home country France. According to the company, the new centre in Bangalore would start [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saching.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4470958&amp;post=609&amp;subd=saching&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Key Do’s and Don&#039;ts in Scrum</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:31:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even though there are several  rules and practices in Scrum, but still they don&#8217;t  cover all contexts. Practitioners keep coming back with several questions like, We don&#8217;t have a scrum master yet, can we   make the Product Owner as the scrum Master ? Can we have a single Scrum Master for several projects ? and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saching.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4470958&amp;post=493&amp;subd=saching&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nokia is planning to close N-Gage, the gaming service it provides</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 19:46:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nokia will close its battered gaming service N-Gage next year, acknowledging failure in its first major services offering. The handset maker&#8217;s mobile gaming push has encountered major challenges over the years, with consumers first shunning its dedicated gaming phones.   The online gaming service, opened last year, never moved beyond a niche audience.   Nokia [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saching.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4470958&amp;post=606&amp;subd=saching&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Subversion Installation with Apache 2.2 &#8211; Step by Step Tutorial</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 18:18:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I played around installing SVN 1.5.1 with Apache 2.2. Here is my approach of installing Subversion on Apache 2.2. Go on. Following paragraph provides detailed steps 1. Install Apache 2.2 2. During subversion installation ensure that you choose the proper Binding ie. Apache 2.2 (in our case) 3. Using the windows explorer, go to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saching.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4470958&amp;post=489&amp;subd=saching&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Amazon&#039;s Kindle has arrived in India. All Customers in India can purchase Kindle directly from Amazon US and download e-books.</title>
		<link>http://saching.wordpress.com/2009/11/01/amazons-kindle-has-arrived-in-india-all-customers-in-india-can-purchase-kindle-directly-from-amazon-us-and-download-e-books/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 16:46:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gupta Bros</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amazon has started selling Kindle all over the world and made it available for Indian reader&#8217;s community. Kindle would be couriered to Indian customers directly by Amazon US. Price and features of the Kindle in India, courier and import duties will be &#8230;. Kindle is available in India for same price for 12000 INR (@47 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saching.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4470958&amp;post=476&amp;subd=saching&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Many new jobs coming up in Indian BPO sector. Infosys, Tech Mahindra and Aditya Birla Minacs aggressively opening new BPO units in Kolkata, Chandigarh and Andhra Pradesh.</title>
		<link>http://saching.wordpress.com/2009/10/28/many-new-jobs-coming-up-in-indian-bpo-sector-infosys-tech-mahindra-and-aditya-birla-minacs-aggressively-opening-new-bpo-units-in-kolkata-chandigarh-and-andhra-pradesh-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 06:05:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[India based BPO Companies have become very aggressive in recent times and expanding their operations all over the country. Infosys, Tech Mahindra and Aditya Birla Minacs have opened new units and creating many jobs in BPO/KPO sector. Infosys BPO Limited, a subsidiary of IT major Infosys, signed an agreement with the Andhra Pradesh government to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saching.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4470958&amp;post=603&amp;subd=saching&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Time to work for free in IT companies. No pay for 5000 employees of Mahindra Satyam for 3 months. Take it or leave it.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:42:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mahindra Satyam announced that it will not pay salaries to employees in the virtual pool after December 18. The employees under this virtual pool program (VPP) will, however, have the option to stay on the company’s rolls without pay till March 2010. In a recent email to the associates, the Satyam management stated, “We continue [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saching.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4470958&amp;post=601&amp;subd=saching&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>To buy or not to buy Microsoft Windows 7 ? Windows 7 vs Vista vs XP.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:52:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier OS released by Microsoft was Windows Vista and it got horrible response from the users. Microsoft Vista was any way not good as it requires and consumes too much of memory. They would definitely stop the support for Microsoft Vista in few years from now. Give this, it is better to stick with Windows XP [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saching.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4470958&amp;post=468&amp;subd=saching&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Planning to purchase Microsoft’s new OS Windows 7. Please hold on your purchase and read and compare features of Windows 7 with Windows Vista or Windows XP.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:44:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft India has announced on 22nd Oct the arrival of Windows 7 for its customers in India. As per Microsoft, this OS will be reliable and responsive but they had claimed similar for Windows Vista. We all know what happened to Windows Vista, and image of the Microsoft company post Vista release. Microsoft releases new [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saching.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4470958&amp;post=745&amp;subd=saching&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mahindra Satyam (formerly Satyam) plans to layoff 5,000 employees on bench.</title>
		<link>http://saching.wordpress.com/2009/10/22/mahindra-satyam-formerly-satyam-plans-to-layoff-5000-employees-on-bench/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 09:33:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gupta Bros</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Post Diwali weekend, many Satyam&#8217;s employees on the Virtual Pool Program (VPP) of the company were given a formal notice of two months by e-mail. Virtual Pool Program (VPP) were for people in bench. The mail reads, &#8220;In our earlier communication dated June 11, 2009, you were placed on VPP for a period of six [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saching.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4470958&amp;post=599&amp;subd=saching&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sun MicroSystems to layoffs 3,000 more jobs this fiscal</title>
		<link>http://saching.wordpress.com/2009/10/21/sun-microsystems-to-layoffs-3000-more-jobs-this-fiscal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 09:21:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sun Microsystems Inc is planning to cut 3,000 jobs worldwide, or about 10 percent of its staff, blaming delays in its $7 billion sale to Oracle Corp . According to Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, Sun is losing about $100 million a month because of uncertainty about the computer maker&#8217;s future as European antitrust regulators pursue [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saching.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4470958&amp;post=596&amp;subd=saching&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>TCS to be fined 2 Lakh per day for passport project delay</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 07:27:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tata Consultancy Services, has been reportedly asked by the government to pay penalty for missing the second deadline in implementing Passport Seva Project. TCS was to set up seven pilot Passport Seva Kendras (PSK) in Chandigarh and Bangalore by October 1. According to a report, the government has sent a notice to the company asking [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saching.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4470958&amp;post=594&amp;subd=saching&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wipro planning to hire &#039;more affordable and eager for employment&#039; US workers.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 07:26:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wipro Ltd plans to hire more &#8221;more affordable and eager for employment&#8216; workers in the US to take advantage of a rebounding technology market. Premji is betting that US employees will help the Bangalore-based company win local orders, including contracts with the federal government, as the world’s largest economy starts to recover from the worst [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saching.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4470958&amp;post=592&amp;subd=saching&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>TCS planning to distribute 150% of Variable Pay to all of its employees and adding 8000 more resources. Ahoa.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 07:22:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[TCS gives Diwali gifts to all of its employees. For first time in its history, TCS planning to distribute 150% of Variable Pay to all employees for last quarter in October salary slip.  This way employees will be getting 50% more variable pay than what was agreed with them. Apart from this, TCS is planning [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saching.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4470958&amp;post=589&amp;subd=saching&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>HCL Info corners $114 mn Rajasthan govt deal for power distribution. TCS bags the similar project from MP and West Bengal govt.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 07:14:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[IT hardware firm HCL Infosystems has been awarded a Rs 529 crore ($114 million) IT project for Rajasthan&#8217;s power distribution utilities, a top official of the utilities said. The project involves applying technology to identify power losses across all cities and villages of Rajasthan and has to be completed in 18 months, he said. A [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saching.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4470958&amp;post=587&amp;subd=saching&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>UBS sells its Indian captive unit in Hyderabaad to Cognizant Technology Solutions (CTS)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:22:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[UBS handed over its only IT captive unit in Hyderabaad, India to Cognizant Technology Solutions (CTS) and transferred 2000 plus employees as part of the deal. IT services provider Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp agreed to acquire UBS India Service Centre Private Ltd for about $75 million to strengthen its position in financial services, one of its [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saching.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4470958&amp;post=585&amp;subd=saching&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gartner predicts death of 25% of the BPO/KPO firms worldwide in 3 years.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 09:48:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At least one-quarter of the top business process outsourcing (BPO) firms worldwide will not exist as separate entities by 2012, according to IT market research firm Gartner. Predicting a market exit for a number of players, Gartner said acquisitions and the ascent of new vendors will rearrange the BPO provider landscape in the coming years. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saching.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4470958&amp;post=582&amp;subd=saching&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hiring plan of Infosys, TCS and Wipro. TCS says Yes to hiring but Infosys says &quot;no, we are already full&quot;.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 05:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[TCS said the company plans to add 1,000 jobs in the United States in the next year to boost its presence in a market TCS sees recovering ahead of other regions like Europe. The company currently has around 13,000 workers in the US. To meet the recovery in demand and tap future business growth in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saching.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4470958&amp;post=580&amp;subd=saching&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>MindTree buys Kyocera Wireless India</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 05:29:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MindTree Ltd said on Tuesday it agreed to buy Bangalore-based Kyocera Wireless India Pvt Ltd and make an upfront payment of $6 million, while further payments will be linked to revenue in FY11 and FY12. The IT firm expects the acquisition to contribute about $9 million in revenues for the period Oct 2009 to March [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saching.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4470958&amp;post=578&amp;subd=saching&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>US tech industry lost 115K jobs in H1 and 224K jobs in one full year. Phew.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 05:27:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to a study by TechAmerica Foundation, US technology industry cut 115,000 jobs in the first half of 2009, compared to the 72,900 tech jobs added in the same period in 2008. However, in the US too, the tech sector seems better than other industry verticals. While between June 2008 to June 2009, tech lost [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saching.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4470958&amp;post=576&amp;subd=saching&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dell Inc buys Perot Systems Corp</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 05:25:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dell Inc said Monday it has agreed to buy the information technology services company Perot Systems Corp for about $3.9 billion as it looks to expand beyond the personal computer business. Round Rock, Texas-based Dell said it will offer $30 per share in cash for Perot, which is based in Plano, Texas. This represents a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saching.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4470958&amp;post=574&amp;subd=saching&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>HP considering selling or shutting parts of its outsourcing business.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 05:20:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hewlett-Packard Co is conducting a strategic review of the information technology and business process outsourcing assets that came with its 2008 acquisition of EDS, a senior executive said. Sources told Reuters last month that HP was considering selling or shutting parts of its outsourcing business to focus on the higher-margin areas of its technology services [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saching.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4470958&amp;post=572&amp;subd=saching&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Signs of IT business revival. Wipro, TCS, CTS started promotions and salary increment.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 05:14:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the first visible signs of a turnaround in the Indian IT sector, Wipro, has lifted the freeze on promotions and hikes. TCS and CTS also announces promotions. Apart from this, Cognizant sent a mail to all its employees a couple of months back, stating that it has kicked off an appraisal process to promote [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saching.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4470958&amp;post=570&amp;subd=saching&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sign of revival for Satyam. Mahindra Satyam brings back variable pay.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 05:06:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Good news for Satyam employees. Mahindra Satyam said it has reinstated the variable portion of salaries of employees, a move which indicates the revival of the once fraud-hit firm. &#8220;Variable pay is now being re-instated within 6 months (effective October 2009),&#8221; Mahindra Satyam said, adding various benefits like ESOPs and associate welfare programmes will also [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saching.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4470958&amp;post=568&amp;subd=saching&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wipro closing one of its development centre in France.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 05:03:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wipro Technologies is planning to shut down its development centre in Sophia Antipolis, France. The company is said to have started consultation process with local employees in this connection. According to EETimes, in an open letter the employees of Wipro-NewLogic, based at its Sophia Antipolis center in France, have said that the company has closed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saching.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4470958&amp;post=565&amp;subd=saching&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Another Indian captive unit for sale. Morgan Stanley looking to exit Indian back-office operations.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 05:12:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems that U.S. based financial services firm Morgan Stanley, wants to exit its back-office operations in India. Many Indian IT companies are eyeing Morgan Stanley deal The bank is exploring all options, including a partial or entire sale of its back-office unit that does IT development and finance and accounting-related work for the U.S. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saching.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4470958&amp;post=563&amp;subd=saching&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>TCS given new post to S Ramadorai. Appoints him as vice-chairman of TCS.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 05:06:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), has announced that the Board of Directors has appointed the company&#8217;s  present Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director S Ramadorai on the Board of Directors as an additional director and designated him as the Vice-Chairman of the company in a non-executive capacity with effect from October 6, 2009. Ramadorai is retiring [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saching.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4470958&amp;post=560&amp;subd=saching&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>No more Infosys in Kolkata. Wipro&#039;s expansion in Calcutta stalled by WB government.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 05:01:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The West Bengal government has stalled mutation of land purchased from farmers by the promoters of the proposed IT township. This land was supposed to be given to Infosys for opening up it&#8217;s first development center in Bengal and also by Wipro to expand its presence in this state. The project is close to the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saching.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4470958&amp;post=557&amp;subd=saching&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>TCS plans to hire 25000 people this year.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2009 19:28:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[TCS has said that it would hire 25,000 people this year, a move that is likely to give a fillip to the country&#8217;s IT recruitment scene, which is seeing a slowdown since the collapse of Lehman Brothers last September. It is still not sure if TCS will be hiring fresh 25000 for this year or [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saching.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4470958&amp;post=553&amp;subd=saching&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Yahoo shifted Yahoo News Division to Taiwan</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2009 19:08:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a risky but interesting move that has some at the company nervous and others excited, Yahoo is in the process of moving key development responsibility for its juggernaut Yahoo News unit to Taiwan. Under the new system, product management, engineering and user interface design for the powerful Yahoo (YHOO) property will become the responsibility [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saching.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4470958&amp;post=551&amp;subd=saching&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mahindra Satyam BPO (Nipuna earlier) hired 700 and planning to hire 300 more.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 07:40:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BPO arm of Mahindra Satyam (Nipuna earlier) seems to be on a hiring spree with plans to recruit 300 employees by the next month. They already hired 700 employees in the last one month. The company has recently bagged a major contract from a domestic client for providing it back office support. &#8220;To support the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saching.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4470958&amp;post=549&amp;subd=saching&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fujitsu to cut 1,200 jobs in UK</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 07:36:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Japanese IT firm Fujitsu Ltd said on Wednesday it was cutting up to 1,200 jobs in the UK in response to lower-than-anticipated revenues.  The company, which employs 12,500 people in the UK, said the action was necessary to remain competitive in the current difficult economic climate. It said had already frozen pay across the company [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saching.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4470958&amp;post=546&amp;subd=saching&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sapient on hiring spree in India. To up India headcount by 20%</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 08:41:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[IT consulting firm Sapient is set to increase India headcount by 20% even as it resorted to layoffs early this year.  The hiring exercise is primarily to leverage its marketing and advertising services in the country, said a top company executive. Currently, the firm employs around 4,000 people in India. “Demand for consulting services is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saching.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4470958&amp;post=544&amp;subd=saching&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Honeywell India distributes mandatory leaves for employees. Enjoy the Christmas but no pay.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 08:38:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Honeywell India has announced that its employees will have to take a mandatory ten days off in December-January without pay. HP follows the same practice for many years but employees has to use their holiday quota for this unlike Honeywell where one will be on leave without pay. Honeywell employees in India said that Krishna [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saching.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4470958&amp;post=541&amp;subd=saching&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wipro is slipping to fourth position in Indian IT Game. Cognizant is in close race with Wipro for third position.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 08:32:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It may take only few quarters when Cognizant will be holding third position in Indian IT industry. Cognizant has pipped Wipro in terms of revenue from the North America &#8211; a major market for Indian IT companies. The New Jersey-based company, whose major operations are in India, now ranks third after TCS and Infy. Cognizant’s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saching.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4470958&amp;post=538&amp;subd=saching&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Accenture plans to lay off 7% of senior executives</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 08:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Accenture is planning to reduce its senior executive workforce by seven per cent besides, pruning real estate capacity as part of restructuring efforts. The seven per cent workforce reduction would mean over 300 senior-executives would be laid-off. Restructuring is expected to cost the company $247 million in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2009 ending August [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saching.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4470958&amp;post=536&amp;subd=saching&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reader&#039;s Digest to file for bankruptcy protection.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 08:05:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The publisher of the world&#8217;s largest-circulated magazine, Reader&#8217;s Digest, has decided to file for bankruptcy in the US, but its operations in rest of the world would remain unaffected. Reader&#8217;s Digest is being sold across dozens of countries including India. The filing for bankruptcy protection by Reader&#8217;s Digest Association (RDA), the company said in a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saching.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4470958&amp;post=534&amp;subd=saching&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>IBM proposes cut in pension for its emoployees.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 08:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Series of bad news from IBM for its employees. IBM&#8217;s back in news this time for change in its pension policies. IBM is reportedly proposing to close its final salary pension scheme to its current UK and Ireland staff. UNITE, the largest trade union in the UK, has reportedly warned the IT company of &#8216;backlash&#8217; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saching.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4470958&amp;post=531&amp;subd=saching&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>AIG finance arm plans 900 job cuts after posting 6th straight loss.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 07:51:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[American International Group Inc&#8217;s money-losing consumer finance unit on Thursday said it eliminated 900 jobs and closed 145 branches in the first half of the year, and may make further cutbacks as it prepares to be sold. American General Finance Corp said its quarterly loss increased sevenfold to $227.2 million from $31.8 million a year [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saching.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4470958&amp;post=529&amp;subd=saching&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>HP (Hewlett-Packard) planning to shut parts of outsourcing business.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 07:49:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hewlett-Packard Co (HP)  is considering selling or shutting parts of its outsourcing business to focus on the higher-margin areas of its technology services offering, people familiar with the matter said. A year after buying Electronic Data Systems for $13 billion, HP executives are discussing the possibility of divesting parts of the outsourcing operations, especially in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saching.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4470958&amp;post=527&amp;subd=saching&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Verizon Communications is planning more job cuts by end of the year</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 07:40:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Verizon Communications Inc said in the month of July that it will cut more than 8,000 employee and contractor jobs before the end of the year in the wireline business, speeding up its efforts to keep costs in line, according to chief financial officer John Killian. Cost-cutting at Verizon Communications Inc&#8217;s wireline business failed to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saching.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4470958&amp;post=524&amp;subd=saching&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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