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Tech Vendors Shedding Jobs Quickly
Lexmark (NYSE: LXK) handed out more than five dozen pink slips Friday to sales and marketing specialists—including channel chief Sharon Brindley (click here for: “Lexmark Without Channel Leader”) in a sudden restructuring at its Lexington, Ky. headquarters. The Lexmark action is just the latest in a growing string of downsizing among vendors that are laying…
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Lexmark Channel Without a Leader
Lexmark, the third largest printer vendor, is without a channel chief following Friday’s layoff of Sharon Brindley. As many as 50 sales and marketing people lost their jobs as a result of a corporate restructuring, according to Kentucky local press reports. Among them were several inside channel sales and support people, including Brindley. “[We] believe…
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Avnet Helps Solution Providers Fill Jobs
Even as unemployment has reached a 16-year high, solution providers still find it difficult to fill their open jobs – but one distributor is looking to help ease the burden. Avnet Technology Solutions HP Solutions group is offering a new program designed to help HP solution provider partners recruit qualified talent to fill their open…
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Unemployment Hits 16-Year High, but Solution Providers Still Struggle to Fill Sales Jobs
The number of workers filing new unemployment claims for jobless benefits jumped last week to the highest level in 16 years, according to data from the U.S. Labor Department, with 542,000 new unemployment claims in the week ended Nov. 15 from a revised 515,000 new unemployment claims for the previous week. But don’t tell that…
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Verizon Bets on RIM’s Blackberry Storm as Apple iPhone Killer
By Sinead Carew NEW YORK (Reuters) – Verizon Wireless is betting on the new BlackBerry Storm for the all-important holiday season, hoping the highly anticipated smartphone can compete against the iPhone offered by rival wireless provider AT&T Inc. The No. 2 U.S. mobile service, a joint venture between Verizon Communications Inc and Vodafone Group Plc,…