Motorola lets go of 77 in its mobile division, end of the line gets just a little bit closer - Boy Genius Report
Mon, Jan 26th, 2009
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Another day, another round of layoffs at Motorola. It’s not clear if this is part of the general 4,000 job losses promised a little while ago, or if this is above and beyond the fray, though it’s not a good thing regardless of how you look at it. While it’s easy to pass off any layoff announcement these days as being entirely due to the economic mess we’re in, it’s not as easy to forget that things have been going South over at Moto long before the subprime crisis was a blip on the map...
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- deejaymischief: Motorola laying off another 74 people from the mobile phones divisionFri, Jul 10th, 2009 2:57 PM EDT· Reply · View Tweet
jaknotts: Motorola Far From a Turnaround - Analyst Blog: Restructuring Continues in Motorola's Mobile Phone Division http://tinyurl.com/lla5h7Fri, Jul 10th, 2009 10:56 AM EDT· Reply · View Tweet
TheProdigalFool: They still have a mobile phones division!? RT @s_constantine: Motorola laying off another 74 people from the mobile phones division.Fri, Jul 10th, 2009 10:27 AM EDT· Reply · View Tweet
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