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Drug company Pfizer to cut more than 500 jobs, shut 2 plants in
MSN UK News - Pfizer Inc., the world's No. 1 drug maker and one of the biggest foreign employers in Ireland, announced Thursday it is shutting two plants here and plans to lay off 545 employees, nearly a quarter of its work force. The announcement came two weeks

Kodak cutting up to 3,000 more jobs
USA Today - NEW YORK (AP) Eastman Kodak (EK) said Thursday it is cutting as many as 3,000 more jobs as the company that turned picture-taking into a hobby for the masses navigates a tough transition from film to digital photography. CHANGING TUNE : Kodak

Fidelity to add 1,535 jobs in Texas
Boston Globe - Fidelity Investments will invest more than $200 million to expand its operations in a Dallas suburb, creating 1,535 new jobs there, a Fidelity spokeswoman and Texas Governor Rick Perry said yesterday. In Texas, Fidelity will receive an $8.5 million

Jobs' DRM Argument Has Hidden Undercurrent
MobileMag - There's more to this Steve Jobs DRM announcement than meets the eye. Jobs, the head and public face of Apple Computer, recently called for the music industry to eliminate its Digital Rights Management (DRM) systems. The main reasons Job gave were

SanDisk CEO Answers Steve Jobs
Red Herring - SanDisk Chairman and CEO Eli Harari has an answer for Apple CEO Steve Jobs, penning an open letter about digital rights management protection on music files that he posted on his company s web site in response to the open letter Mr. Jobs posted

RIAA says Jobs has it backwards
Dallas Morning News - LOS ANGELES A recording industry group fired back Wednesday at Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs, suggesting his company should open up its anti-piracy technology to its rivals instead of urging major record labels to strip copying restrictions from

Nortel to cut 2,900 jobs in new bid for profitability
Seattle Post Intelligencer - Nortel Networks Corp., North America's largest maker of phone gear, plans to cut about 8.5 percent of its work force after previous reductions failed to make the company profitable. The stock rose the most Wednesday in more than a year. Nortel will

Military Must Fill Iraq Civilian Jobs
Washington Post - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told Congress yesterday that more than 40 percent of nearly 300 State Department positions to be added in Iraq as part of President Bush's new strategy will have to be filled by military personnel. "Frankly, the