Motorola Job Cuts

by Stephen Spring on January 15th, 2009 at 10:39 am EDT - 554 views

Motorola announced Wednesday that it would be axing another 4,000 approximate jobs in 2009. This comes only a year after the mobile phone company realeased 3,000 of their workers in the 2008 year.

The 7,000 total job cuts are said to save the company around 1.5 Billion dollars in annual savings. The majority of the job cuts are mostly realated to the moblile phone business, however corporate Motorola see’s to lose around 1000 jobs. The cuts are a major initiative in the  cost-cutting measures being taken by Motorola. But, to give some props to Motorola they are cutting their Executive’s pay in these trying economic times. Which is better than we can say about some of the bailout banks like AIG financial.

This is no suprise with many other companies doing similar job cuts. However, you wouldn’t think companies like Motorola would have to cut jobs after a pretty action-packed year. 

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New $2,000 Motorola

by Taylor Flatt on December 21st, 2008 at 6:27 pm EDT - 180 views

Guys, are you having trouble finding something for your girlfriend or significant other?  Motorola has the answer to all your problems with their new $2,000 cell phone.  Instead of buying them chocolates and a nice sweater, you can buy them an expensively outrageous phone for only 1 small payment of 2 grand.

This phone, called The Aura, will be all the new rage.  Sure there might be phones with roughly the same quality for a tenth of the price, but who wants to buy something “cheap”?  Besides,  if you bought something cheap, you would miss out on some of these great items,

•  Chemically etched textures and patterns
•  Three tungsten-carbon-carbide-coated main gears
•  The main bearing is Swiss-made
•  Protective PVD coating and mirror polish finish, same as used on luxury watches
•  130 precision ball bearings
•  Scratch-resistant, 62-carat, grade 1 sapphire crystal display

Oh, I also forgot to mention…it even comes with a 2 megapixel camera!  What a great gift for the family!

Source: NYTimes