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Intuit Layoffs To Hit Southern California

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Layoffs at personal finance software maker Intuit are set to hit a number of the firm's Southern California locations. The layoffs date are split between August 3rd and August 17th, according to the WARN filings. Tags: intuit software layoff warn.

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LSI Cuts Jobs In Southern California

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LSI Corporation , a developer of data storage products, has cut a product line it had been developing in Southern California, resulting in the layoffs of employees in Irvine and Westlake Village, as well as Israel and Silicon Valley. Sources close to LSI confirmed the layoffs.

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Insights and Opinions: Southern California Tech Jobs Make a Comeback

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For our Insights and Opinions section today, we have an editorial by John Savageau, President of Pacific-Tier Communications, who asks companies in Southern California to put local talent back to work. No bonuses, no promotions, layoffs, and nobody hiring. But that does appear to be changing. Continued.).

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Report: Tech Layoffs At Highest Level In Three Years

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You may not see it here in Southern California's high tech sector--which has been booming, due to a surge of startup and accelerator activity--but apparently, the technology sector has seen its highest level of layoffs in three years, according to a report today.

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Layoffs Hot Keyword for Second Half of January 2009

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But, in running it now for the second half of January, the keyword that popped to the top was: Layoffs And this is definitely a sign of the times. This hot list is based on various social signals of what people are writing about, reading, bookmarking, searching, etc. You can go to the Hot List post to see what was hot then. Here's the rest.

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XCOR Aerospace Files For Chapter 7

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XCOR had been one of a number of companies in Southern California pursuing the commercial space market. The bankruptcy follows a layoff of all of the company's employees in July , when it said it was unable to raise money to further fund its spacecraft development efforts.

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Disney Cancels Tech Layoffs In Burbank

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The move by Disney--as well as a similar one at Southern California Edison--has triggered an investigation by the U.S. It's unclear why Disney cancelled, the move, although the company has come under intense fire for replacing its employees with foreign, H-1B workers--and forcing those same employees to train their replacements.

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