Maoists hack two CPI (M) workers to death

July 31st, 2009 Prosecutors won't seek death in office killingsSAN JOSE, Calif. — Prosecutors won't seek the death penalty in the case of a Silicon Valley engineer charged with fatally shooting three people at a Santa Clara high-tech firm.

July 23rd, 2009 SoCal man held in estranged wife's machete deathFONTANA, Calif. — A man is under arrest for allegedly hacking his estranged wife to death with a machete outside the Fontana beauty shop where she worked.

October 19th, 2009 Gately column sparks Twitter outrage, complaintsLONDON — Britain's press watchdog says it has received a record 21,000 complaints about a newspaper column on the death of Boyzone singer Stephen Gately after critics used Twitter to brand the article homophobic and insensitive. Gately died Oct.

March 2nd, 2009 BANGALORE - Umesh Krishnan, a 27-year techie employed with IT bellwether Infosys Technologies, was robbed and suffocated to death early Monday by a gang of four suspected dacoits at his house in the city's eastern suburb, the police said. 'The incident happened in the wee hours when Krishnan was attacked by the gang, which barged into his house and gagged his mouth and nose with cello tape,' city joint commissioner Alok Kumar told IANS.

February 6th, 2009 WASHINGTON - IBM is offering its laid off employees in North America a chance to take a job with the company in India, Nigeria, Russia or other countries through Project Match, a media report said. Citing an internal company document CNN said its Project Match will help interested workers whose jobs are on the chopping block to 'identify potential opportunities in growth markets and facilitate consideration by hiring managers in those markets.' The company also will help with moving costs and provide visa assistance, it says.

July 22nd, 2009 Chinese worker commits suicide over missing iPhoneGUANGZHOU, China — Chinese worker Sun Danyong was responsible for handling the prototypes of one of the world's hottest products — the iPhone. When one of the gadgets went missing and his company began investigating him, he jumped off his apartment building and killed himself.

October 28th, 2009 Startup IT company plans hiring hundreds in Ind.KOKOMO, Ind. — A startup information technology company plans to open its headquarters in central Indiana and potentially hire hundreds of workers in the coming years.

October 26th, 2009 LONDON - A recent survey done in the UK has revealed that the cost to the economy due to use of social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook by office workers during office hours could be over 1.38 billion pounds per year. The survey on 1,460 office workers commissioned by Morse, an IT services and technology company, found that more than half of office workers used these social networking sites for personal use during the working day, and admitted to wasting an average of 40 minutes a week each.

September 11th, 2009 LONDON - Bosses in Britian have decided to impose a new rule in the workplace which will allow employees a 'Facebook break' of 10 minutes a day. The decision has been taken after a research suggested that Britain's economy is suffering thanks to workers surfing social networking sites, reports The Telegraph.iles Ridgeway, a leading consultant at Employment Law Advisory Services (ELAS) says Facebook is a "curse." "They feel some staff are failing to do the job they're paid for because they're spending too much time on such websites," he said.

June 19th, 2009 Yahoo to write down as much as $34M for layoffs SUNNYVALE, Calif. — Yahoo Inc.

October 26th, 2009 LONDON - British economy is wasting time worth 1.38 billion pounds owing to social networking websites such as Twitter, claims a survey. Over 50 percent of office workers use sites like Twitter and Facebook for personal use during the working day, and admit wasting an average of 40 minutes a week each.

January 21st, 2009 HYDERABAD - Muthyala Purushottam, a 27-year-old software engineer from Andhra Pradesh, was found dead in his flat in Indianapolis in the US, family sources said Thursday. This is the second incident of the death of a techie from the Indian state in the US this month.

October 19th, 2009 Newspaper column sparks Twitter rage, complaintsLONDON — Britain's press watchdog said Monday it had received a record 21,000 complaints about a newspaper column on the death of Boyzone singer Stephen Gately after critics used Twitter to brand the article homophobic and insensitive. Gately died Oct.

March 26th, 2009 NEW YORK - US computer firm IBM plans to lay off 5,000 workers in its service area in the US, and outsource the majority of them to India, the US business daily Wall Street Journal reported Thursday, citing an insider. At year's end IBM employed around 400,000 people worldwide, with the Wall Street Journal reporting that the company had laid off around 4,600 workers in areas of software, sales and semiconductors at the start of the 2009.

March 26th, 2009 WASHINGTON - International Business Machines (IBM) Corp. plans to lay off about 5,000 US employees, with many of the jobs being transferred to India, a media report said Thursday.