Neowin News Feed for: Employees

Microsoft hiring 1,000 workers in China to combat piracy

Anthony Tosie — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 14:55:45 +0100

Microsoft's CEO for its China operations has announced the company is hiring an additional 1,000 workers in the country. Microsoft currently has 4,500 employees in China. Read more...

Anonymous hacker releases information on GlobalCerts employees

Paul Ferson — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 23:41:45 +0100

A hacker claiming to be working for Anonymous and AntiSec has attacked GlobalCerts.com, dumping information on employees onto the internet. The hacker also provides their 'justification'. Read more...

Microsoft employees rate Steve Ballmer as worst CEO

Brandon Boyce — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 02:52:50 +0100

A company rating and review website, Glassdoor.com, regularly quizzes employees of tech companies how they feel about their current CEO asking: "Do you approve of the way your CEO is leading the company?" Unfortunately for... Read more...

New report says Foxconn employees abused

Tom Dwyer — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 15:46:44 +0100

Foxconn, the world’s largest manufacturer of electrical components, is facing a leaked report that states the company abuses its employees. The report also says that the company has been responsible for harsh punishment, illegal labor... Read more...

Microsoft to give Windows Phone 7 phones to every employee

Owen Williams — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 23:16:13 +0100

At the MGX (Microsoft Global Exchange) conference today, Microsoft announced that it would be distributing Windows Phone 7 devices to every employee in the company. Microsoft currently has around 90,000+ employees, and thats a lot of... Read more...

Microsoft employees embarrassed over Kin failure

Brad Sams — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 14:09:32 +0100

Microsoft’s latest catastrophe, the Kin, has quickly become a huge embarrassment for Microsoft employees of all levels. They only sold 10,000 units before killing the project, and internal embarrassment is quickly tuning into public... Read more...

Anonymous Belkin employees reveal Belkin's true face

Chakkaradeep Chandran — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 21:40:23 +0000

Two of anonymous Belkin employees have come back with replies to the statement released by Belkin's president Mark Reynoso about faked product reviews. Belkin has supposedly paid for positive reviews, gave products with custom firmware... Read more...

Google shares the holiday spirit with employees

Sean Bradford — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 14:20:19 +0000

The end of the year is near, and the holiday season is just about to start. For hundreds of thousands of people, it's time for that yearly bonus. Search engine giant Google has taken a... Read more...

Ex-Google employees rebel with Cuil

Simon Andrews — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 22:59:22 +0100

Have you ever looked at Google and thought: "There aren't enough search results here"? Well, surprisingly, you are not alone. Today marked the launch of a new search engine, known as Cuil (pronounced Cool). The... Read more...

41 Employees Fired For Porn Surfing

EL1TE — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 11:00:39 +0000

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Washington DC - 41 Washington DC workers have been fired or suspended after they accessed thousands of porn sites on city computers. Nine employees were fired while the other 32 were suspended. Both male and... Read more...

Circuit City Fires 3,400 "Overpaid" Employees

Slimy — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 19:54:00 +0100

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Circuit City is firing 3,400 employees (8% of Circuit City's total work force) and bringing in lower-cost workers to fill their roles. The company says that the move is aimed to help realign its cost... Read more...

Apple offers to re-price options for employees

Slimy — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 17:55:47 +0000

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In a filing Friday with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Apple said 114,695 options issued between 1997 and 2002 were erroneously assigned grant dates that preceded the finalization of those grants. As a... Read more...

NASA Employees Warned About Vista Security Loophole

Slimy — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 22:03:49 +0000

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Computer security specialists at NASA have warned their employees of a loophole in the encryption feature BitLocker, only present in Enterprise and Ultimate editions of Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system. According to a document posted... Read more...

Boeing laptop with data on 382,000 employees stolen

Steven Parker — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 11:56:39 +0000

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A laptop containing the personal information on 382,000 current and retired workers of Chicago-based Boeing Co. was stolen from an employee's car earlier this month, according to Boeing spokesman Tim Neale. He declined to say... Read more...

Microsoft Warns Employees of Likely Antitrust Fine

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 19:42:38 +0100

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Will Microsoft soon be charged $2.5 million a day for allegedly flouting the European Union's demand to provide documentation about Windows' inner workings? Microsoft officials are preparing for that scenario, according to an e-mail update... Read more...

Apple will staff Best Buy with their own employees

Steven Parker — Sun, 25 Jun 2006 12:55:18 +0100

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Apple will staff Best Buy locations selling its computers with its own employees in a similar fashion as the company has done with its displays at many CompUSA stores. The Apple-badged workers, or Apple Solutions... Read more...

Bill Gates' e-mail to employees

Steven Parker — Sun, 18 Jun 2006 12:49:21 +0100

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Bink has posted an email that Bill Gates sent out to all Microsoft employees and Subsidiaries. From: MSBILLG Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2006 1:41 PM To: Microsoft and Subsidiaries: All FTE Subject: My... Read more...

IT workers are "worst dressed" employees

Michael Stanclift — Sun, 20 Nov 2005 16:16:25 +0000

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The IT industry has the worst dressed workers, according to a leading Aussie fashion guru. Somehow managing to beat off competition from the building industry, IT workers were given a telling off from Melanie Moss,... Read more...

Five Former EA Employees Establish New Studio

Paul — Tue, 30 Aug 2005 15:56:18 +0100

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Deep Fried Entertainment or DFE is the new kid on the development block. Formed by five former EA Black Box employees they hope to, "capitalise on the creative freedoms and technical innovations that often elude... Read more...

Microsoft Employees Abuse Software Purchase Programme

Tom Warren — Tue, 11 Jan 2005 12:17:11 +0000

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ZDNet UK is reporting that Microsoft UK has fired 7 employees from the global technical support centre and services team. The employees have been dismissed after it was discovered that they were abusing system privileges,... Read more...