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The job cuts, which were expected to affect 300 workers, or 8 percent of its staff, instead will reduce the global workforce by 9 percent, with losses mainly in sales, partnerships and marketing Twitter will incur a charge of between $10 million and $20 million in cash during ...

"We have a large staff of consultants who help us try not to look like idiots," said Dan O'Keefe, co-executive producer and writer for Silicon Valley "It's important to us not just to tell well-crafted, funny stories about people who live in this space, but to get as many of t...

Among the challenges it would present are convincing the IT staff to purchase, install and maintain it; making it available in all the locations that need it; and retraining people to use it, McGregor said Products like the Jamboard "aren't enterprise class devices -- they're...

The first speaker used, of all things, the creation of chemotherapy as his quintessential example of innovation. He told the story of how leukemia was a death sentence for children coming into the 1960s, with not only a 100 percent fatality rate but also a horrid end for each child. It was so bad that some doctors refused to see the children, he said, and nurses visiting their wards were covered with sprayed blood. It must have been incredibly difficult to see small children suffering in incredible pain, and the images no doubt deeply disturbed the hospital staff...

You have to add second homes, blocks of apartments companies rent for staff, and investment properties to short-term rentals, Cohen said. "Airbnb is one critical piece of the puzzle." ...

WikiLeaks recently released a new batch of emails belonging to longtime Clinton associate John Podesta, who is the current chairman of the Clinton presidential campaign and was chief of staff under President Bill Clinton and counselor to President Barack Obama ...

"New cabinet secretaries have to understand that their mission can't be done without secure systems," said Curry. "Far too often, cybersecurity is not even on the list of priorities for initiatives and agencies and staffing." All government agencies should be required to adopt...

Yahoo is working closely with BT to fix the issue, a Yahoo staffer familiar with the matter told TechNewsWorld, and it has nothing to do with the disabling of email autoforwarding ...

Doing those things gives the CIO a role in creating better customer experiences. A happier sales team stays with the company longer, and longer-tenured sales staffers are more likely to deliver the value-driven assistance that customers now require. For these reasons, it's vi...

Mischief attacks, known as "lulz," are essentially digital graffiti -- or hackers having fun at the expense of a victim, he told the E-Commerce Times. Brand damage is essentially a form of disrupting a political or corporate brand by taking it offline. Misdirection attacks use the initial hack to divert essential IT staff from a second more dangerous attack, which usually involves the use of stolen credentials to access more sensitive areas of a target. ...

Although this is the future of vendor-customer interactions, especially in retailing, human staff will still be needed for a long time, Pombriant pointed out, because people will want to "jump out and talk to a real human." ...

Federal authorities have been investigating reports that hackers targeted the mobile phones of a handful of Democratic Party staffers, according to a Reuters article published last week The news follows a series of breaches in recent months that revealed emails and other perso...

Federal authorities last week launched a probe of a suspected cyberattack that targeted the private Gmail account of a White House staffer. The employee's correspondence turned up on the DCleaks hacktivist site, which earlier this month posted the private emails of former Sec...

The HPE changes became evident to me through my involvement in a long-term project interviewing IT managers who have switched vendors. A common theme has come up in the reports from HPE accounts post-split: HPE largely is not responsive to their problems; it fields relatively inexperienced support staff; and is a huge pain to work with. ...

It seems like a no-brainer, especially in heavily regulated industries, but the pressure to grow revenue can lead to poor hiring decisions. You need your sales staff to be trustworthy -- now more than ever. Reckless employees not only can get you into legal hot water and enda...

Passwords of election authorities and their staffs reportedly were compromised. Personal information of voters also was compromised, but their voting signatures and histories apparently were not exposed. State voting systems have been dealing with hacking attempts for 10 year...

To fulfill that goal, the unit has been assessing cloud practices across the entire department since last fall, and it has discovered a significant number of disparate activities. As a result, the portfolio staff has been investigating policy and security issues to determine how DISA most effectively can facilitate secure and efficient cloud capabilities at the enterprise level...

Installing Slackware can be an exercise in futility, especially for users who just want a Linux distro that works without an IT staff to make it work. If you are going to sample Slackware beyond the live session showcase ISO, spend considerable time getting familiar with the installation guide from the Slackware Documentation Project...

Gawker Media owner Nick Denton on Thursday revealed that Gizmodo, Lifehacker, Kotaku, Jalopnik, Jezebel and Deadspin will continue with their current writers and other staff members following the company's sale to Univision, but that neither he nor Gawker.com will be included in the transition...

"Layoffs tend to initially have a negative impact on a firm's ability to compete," he said, but once they're completed, Cisco "should be in a better position to staff up in areas that better address where the market's going. Executed well, the result should -- once completed -- be a stronger company."