Bellevue data recovery startup Doyenz cuts staff

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Bellevue-based Doyenz,  which sells a disaster recovery cloud-based service to small and medium-sized businesses, has laid off a number of staffers, GeekWire has learned. “We had to reduce staff and to align with our business priorities, and we still have a substantial though smaller team that will continue to provide services to our substantial customer base,”… Read More…

Microsoft cuts jobs in advertising and marketing

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Microsoft this morning confirmed that it has made additional job cuts in advertising and marketing. A Microsoft spokesman says in an email, “I can confirm that there were job eliminations today at Microsoft. Like any company, Microsoft continually evaluates its operations and works to align the business to key priorities. I can assure you we’re… Read More…

Nokia plans 10k job cuts, 3 top execs depart in shakeup

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Nokia this morning announced a major shakeup, acknowledging that “competitive industry dynamics” in the smartphone market are hurting its business more than previously expected. The company scaled back its financial forecasts, announced the departure of three top executives, and said it plans to reduce its workforce by up to 10,000 people, or 8 percent, by the end… Read More…

Intermec cutting 170 staffers in corporate restructuring

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Intermec, an Everett maker of rugged mobile computers and bar coding and RFID technologies, said that it plans to cut 170 jobs, or seven percent of its work force, as part of an effort to reduce costs. “The restructuring plan is intended to bring the company’s cost structure in line with our current and anticipated… Read More…

Running low on cash, Marina Biotech cuts 90% of staff

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Marina Biotech, a Bothell biotechnology company, said today that it has cut about 90 percent of its staff and ceased most day-to-day operations because it does not have funding to pursue its business model. “To conserve available cash, management has implemented a furlough of approximately 90% of its employees and ceased most day-to-day operations, including… Read More…

T-Mobile USA plans 900 job cuts as ‘rebuilding’ continues

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Updated with details on job cuts. T-Mobile USA will be going through another round of job cuts as part of an ongoing restructuring following AT&T’s failed attempt to acquire the Bellevue-based company. A company representative says in a statement, “With these changes, some jobs will be eliminated, some outsourced and some created. In total, approximately… Read More…

Paul Allen’s Vulcan cuts 20 jobs

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Vulcan, the Seattle-based investment arm of billionaire and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, today laid off 20 staffers, GeekWire has learned. “We communicated the tough decision today to lay off 20 people as we realign some functions with the company’s emerging priorities,” said Vulcan spokesman David Postman. Allen has been in the news recently, donating $300… Read More…

Yahoo job cuts: Back to startup mode for an aging web icon

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Yahoo this morning confirmed that it’s cutting 2,000 jobs, or about 15 percent of its workforce —  part of an effort by new CEO Scott Thompson to make the company ”smaller, nimbler, more profitable and better equipped to innovate as fast as our customers and our industry require,” as Yahoo put it in a news release…. Read More…

Verizon Wireless to close Bellevue call center, tells 850 workers they can relocate elsewhere

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Verizon Wireless today announced plans to close its call center operations in Bellevue, a move that will lead to the elimination of about 850 jobs  in the Seattle area. “This was a very difficult but necessary business decision,” the company said in a statement. “Our employees are very highly skilled and we want to help… Read More…

Daily deal site Tippr lays off 25 staffers, restructures sales

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Tippr, the daily deal technology services startup led by Seattle entrepreneur Martin Tobias, laid off 25 employees today as part of a restructuring of the sales organization, GeekWire has learned. The Seattle company now employs about 45 people, yet still has about 10 open positions. “The reductions were in merchant sales and part of our… Read More…