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Qualcomm Confirms FLO TV Shutdown Plans, Layoffs

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Qualcomm said it is suspending direct consumer sales of devices, and will continue maintaining the service until Spring 2011. Qualcomm said it is suspending direct consumer sales of devices, and will continue maintaining the service until Spring 2011. READ MORE>>.

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Machinima Lays Off 42

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Los Angeles-based online content developer Machinima said Thursday that it has laid off 42 people at the company, all from its sales force, as the company continues to struggle with low ad rates and the large chunk of revenues that are claimed by Google from multi-channel networks. READ MORE>>.

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Websense To Move 470 Jobs To Texas

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Another, Vista Equity owned San Diego company--Active Network--recently announced the sale and split of its business products group, which it is merging with another Vista Equity owned company, Lanyon--also based in Texas. websense jobs employment texas layoff' READ MORE>>.

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Inseego Aborts MiFi Sale, Launches Major Restructuring

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Mondor was most recently President and CEO of Spectralink, and also was President and CEO of Concurrent Computer Corporation, President of Mitel Networks, and also served for over sixteen years at Nortel Networks.

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Leaping off the cliff: Making your business virtual

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These same CEOs sit in their corner offices and email the COO in the next–door office and call their VP of Sales rather than walking down the hall. Overnight, just about every company went into a hiring freeze and massive layoffs dominated the news. In just over eighteen months, we were on track to double in size.

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Ryan Blair, HashtagOne: From Gang Member, To Entrepreneur, To Anti-VC

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I had a sales force when I was at SkyPipeline, selling telecom, networking, and broadband wireless products. We went from $9M in sales to $624M in sales in eighteen months, and sold out at 19x EBITDA. Ryan Blair: When I first had invested in Visalus, I was at SkyPipeline. That's my basic method to mayhem.

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Freelancers Are The New Entrepreneurs For Services

Startup Professionals Musings

As your business starts up, you need marketing programs, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Search Engine Marketing (SEM), a modern “pull” strategy based on social networks, and lead generation. Tomorrow, a similar change is likely to happen to sales personnel, customer service, even manufacturing and construction jobs. Marty Zwilling.