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It’s Official: Yahoo Lays Off 2,000 Employees — 14 Percent of Workforce

Kara Swisher in News on April 4 at 6:22 am PT

CEO Scott Thompson promises that Yahoo, after staff cuts of 14 percent of the entire workforce, will be “smaller, nimbler, more profitable and better equipped to innovate as fast as our customers and our industry require.”

New Solar-Powered Case Brings More Battery Life to Already Long-Lasting Kindle

Lauren Goode in Product News on April 3 at 10:38 am PT

We know: The next time you’ll need to charge your Kindle is when your firstborn graduates college. Still, SolarFocus is bringing even more battery life to the e-reader.

Three Funky Mice Made for Laptops

Katherine Boehret in The Digital Solution on January 25, 2011 at 2:23 pm PT

Katie looks at three computer mice made for laptop users. Their designs make them simple to pack in a bag, use while sitting on the couch or recharge directly from the laptop.

Sprint Expands $10 Data Surcharge to All Smartphones

Ina Fried in Mobile on January 18, 2011 at 11:32 am PT

Starting Jan. 30, Sprint plans to charge all new Android, BlackBerry, Instinct, Palm and Windows Mobile data customers the extra fee. The charge had previously applied only to the carrier’s 4G phones, such as the Evo and Epic.

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AT&T Plans $2.7 Billion Charge

Roger Cheng, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on January 13, 2011 at 2:28 pm PT

AT&T Inc. will take a pretax charge of about $2.7 billion in the fourth quarter in a move to simplify how it accounts for pension and other post-retirement benefits.

Music Sharing Service SoundCloud Raises $10 Million From Index, Union Square

Peter Kafka in Media on January 8, 2011 at 8:52 am PT

Music start-ups have been a money incinerator for a long time, but that doesn’t stop investors from trying again. Here’s the latest example, which I first wrote about back in October.

New from HP: The Pink Slip Jet 9000

John Paczkowski in News on June 1, 2010 at 8:39 am PT

Hewlett-Packard currently has about 304,000 employees worldwide. Three years from now it will have 301,000. The company today said it will reduce its employee roster by 3,000 employees, or one percent of its workforce, over the next few years. Nine thousand workers will lose their jobs, with 6,000 new ones to be hired in the same period.

AT&T’s Q1: 2.7 Million iPhones, 1.9 Million New Subs and a Nasty Charge

John Paczkowski in News on April 21, 2010 at 5:46 am PT

Reporting first-quarter earnings this morning, AT&T said it added 1.9 million new wireless subscribers during the period. It was the biggest first-quarter gain in the company’s history and an impressive achievement, but it was undermined by a large health-care expense. A $995 million charge related to the new federal health-care law dragged AT&T’s first-quarter earnings down 21 percent.