How's your resume looking these days? If you have experience with senior management and a passion for software, you may have what it takes to land at job at Hewlett Packard. Citing "people familiar with the matter," Bloomberg says more high level workers are getting ready to jump HP's ship, including senior vice presidents Marius Haas, Tom Iannotti, and Gary Budzinski.
Now's not a particularly good time to be working for Nokia, not unless you can handle the stress of wondering if you'll still have a job once the company eliminates 12 percent of its workers. As part of a new strategy to "align its global workforce and consolidate site operations," Nokia said it plans to hand out about 7,000 pink slips, including laying off 3,000 staff and transferring 3,000 more to Accenture, which will take over Nokia's legacy Symbian software division.
It's not often that you end up being paid more for being demoted or stepping down from your position as a high level exec. But for Eric Schmidt, the former CEO of Google who was recently replaced by Larry Page, his new position as Executive Chairman is a much more lucrative one. To be fair, even a gig flipping burgers at a fast food joint would have been more lucrative than the $1 annual salary he received as CEO, but there's not a fast food chain in the world that would have paid him $1.25 million a year, and that's before bonuses.
It looks like Intel isn't the only chip maker looking to out-muscle ARM in the tablet market. According to a recent job listing on AMD's website, the company is looking to hire Android driver development engineers, preferably those with experience in video decode acceleration. Reading between the lines, it appears AMD envisions itself powering an Android tablet sometime in the near future.
Playing out like a bad April Fool's prank, Acer CEO Gianfranco Lanci is stepping down from his position with the company after failing to come to an agreement with Acer's board on various business priorities. Acer made the surprise announcement on Thursday, saying that Lanci's resignation was approved at a meeting of its Board of Directors and is in effect immediately.
Microsoft may be looking for help developing a successor to the Xbox 360 console. The Redmond outfit posted a job notice on its Careers website looking for a graphics hardware guru in its Interactive Entertainment Business division. News of the position has been spreading like wildfire through cyberspace, prompting speculation that Microsoft is starting to put the pieces together for an Xbox 720, or whatever the next generation console might be called.
AOL's $315 million acquisition of The Huffington Post is nearly complete, and as the finish line approaches, job cuts can be seen on the horizon. If there's a bright side to this, it's that the job cuts won't come until after the deal is complete. But they are around the corner, because as AOL CEO Tim Armstrong put it, there's just no way to avoid making cuts.
Henry Chow spent more than 40 years at IBM in various positions, including more than a decade as General Manager of IBM's Greater China Group where he was responsible for overseeing IBM's operations in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. Now the 65-year-old former GM will spend time on AMD's Board of Directors, the chip maker announced this week.
Disney, home of the self-described happiest place on Earth, has laid off close to 200 employees as it tries to revamp its interactive media division, The Wall Street Journal 
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