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BlackBerry expects $1 billion loss, will slash staff, reduce handset range
2013-09-20 22:30:02| InfoWorld: Top News
BlackBerry lost close to $1 billion in the July to September quarter as users abandoned its once-dominant platform. During the three-month period, the struggling smartphone maker said it shipped around 3.7 million handsets -- exactly half the number it sold in the same period last year. As a result, it expects sales for the quarter to be around $1.6 billion, a drop of 45 percent from the same quarter in 2012, the company said Friday.
Murray Goulburn to slash 72 jobs in Australia
2013-08-23 01:00:00| Food Processing Technology
Australian dairy co-operative Murray Goulburn (MG) has announced that it will eliminate 72 jobs across its processing facilities, as part of its ongoing efforts to improve efficiency, productivity and cost competitiveness.
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Feds Slash Colorado River Release to Historic Lows
2013-08-16 21:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: A "No Fishing" sign sits improbably along a dry desert road in Nevada. The largest man-made reservoir in the U.S., Lake Mead, once extended this far-but the watery destination of anglers and boaters has shrunk so much that the lakeshore now is about a half-mile away. (View an interactive map of the region.) The recession of the massive lake that straddles Nevada and Arizona is symbolic of a long-standing problem that just got a lot worse: The Colorado River's record-low flows and the shrunken...
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Cisco to slash 4,000 jobs in bid to move faster
2013-08-15 14:52:07| InfoWorld: Top News
Cisco Systems announced Wednesday it will eliminate about 4,000 jobs, saying it needs to pare down middle management to speed up decision-making and execution. The company didn't say when or in what regions the cuts would take place, but it expects to incur related costs of about $550 million. About $250 million to $300 million of those costs will be taken in the first quarter of the company's 2014 fiscal year, which began July 28.
Businesses soon may meet California air rules by paying someone else to slash emissions
2013-08-11 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sacramento Bee: It will be a lifeline of sorts for the cement factories, oil refiners and hundreds of other businesses struggling with California's stringent greenhouse-gas restrictions. Soon they'll be able to comply - in part - by paying other people to reduce their own carbon emissions. That's right: Under standards being drawn up by the California Air Resources Board, companies that have to meet the state's greenhouse-gas standards will be able to satisfy part of their burden by purchasing "offsets" -...
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