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Google Will Cut 1,200 More Jobs At Motorola Mobility

Posted by Soulskill on from the cutting-deep-to-clean-house dept.

alphadogg writes "Motorola Mobility is cutting 1,200 staff, in addition to a reduction of 4,000 staff it announced in August, to focus on high-end devices. 'These cuts are a continuation of the reductions we announced last summer,' said Motorola. 'It's obviously very hard for the employees concerned, and we are committed to helping them through this difficult transition.' Motorola's mobile business has been overwhelmed in the smartphone market by larger players such as Samsung Electronics, Apple, Sony, Huawei Technologies and ZTE."

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  1. Ouch... by mystikkman · · Score: -1, Troll

    The same would have happened to Nokia if they went with Android like some people wanted them to. Samsung is the only one making any real money followed by ZTE with cheap crap phones. HTC, LG, Sony, Motorola etc. are either in deep losses or just scraping by.

  2. Not Evil by pellik · · Score: 1, Troll

    Buying companies to gut them and fire the employees is not evil, otherwise Google would never do it.

  3. Re:Seriously.. by TigerPlish · · Score: -1, Troll

    I think Google is starting to turn evil, guys.

    Starting to? They've been evil since they took their first dollar from selling advertisement.

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    The "Civilized World" jumped the shark ca. 1973.