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South Park does a satire of the Apple tracking controversy using the movie Human Centipede as a backdrop.

Japanese consumer electronics giant Panasonic Corp said it would cut another 17,000 jobs and close up to 70 factories around the world over the next two years in a bid to pare costs and keep up with Asian rivals.

Japanese consumer electronics giant Panasonic Corp said it would cut another 17,000 jobs, equal to 5 percent of its workforce, over the next two years in a bid to pare costs and keep up with Asian rivals.

Japanese consumer electronics giant Panasonic Corp will slash 40,000 jobs over the next two years in a bid to pare costs and keep up with ever-tougher competition from Asian rivals, a source said on Thursday.

Japanese consumer electronics giant Panasonic Corp will slash 40,000 jobs over the next two years in a bid to pare costs and keep up with ever-tougher competition from Asian rivals, a source said on Thursday.

Japanese consumer electronics giant Panasonic Corp said it was planning 35,000 job cuts over three years to March 2013, nearly 10 percent of its workforce, in a bid to pare costs and keep up with Asian rivals.

In an interview with Mobilized's Ina Fried, Jobs reiterated many of his company's previous denials.

Nokia will axe 7,000 jobs and outsource its legacy Symbian activities to slash 1 billion euros ($1.46 billion) of costs as it struggles to compete in the fierce smartphone market.

Nokia <NOK1V.HE>, the world's largest phone maker by volume, will lay off 4,000 people and outsource another 3,000 to Accenture <ACN.N> as part of a plan to slash annual spending by 1 billion euros ($1.46 billion).

During Apple's first quarter 2011 earnings Wednesday, Apple Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook updated stockholders and analysts on the status of CEO Steve Jobs, who has been on a medical leave of absence since January.

Minnesota Senator Al Franken has called out Apple after reports emerged that the company's products were keeping detailed records of the location data of their users.

In a two-page letter sent to Apple CEO Steve Jobs, Franken discusses what he calls the worrisome existence of the iPhone's and iPad's extensive location data.

A repeat of a corporate tax holiday that found little success in stimulating the economy in 2005 is still a long-shot to jump-start a stagnant U.S. economy, says a University of Illinois expert in corporate and international taxation.

US jobs still haven’t returned after over 37 months since the recession first started.

Allied Irish Banks aimed to put the collective madness of a homegrown property bubble behind it on Tuesday with a jaw-dropping annual loss of 10.4 billion euros and a plan to axe over 2,000 jobs.

“President Obama’s policy has failed” at job creation, said 2012 presidential hopeful Mitt Romney.

Apple Inc CEO Steve Jobs will allow best-selling author Walter Isaacson, who chronicled the lives of Albert Einstein and Benjamin Franklin, to publish his biography next year.

The authorized biography of Apple CEO Steve Jobs is set to be published early next year.

Wells Fargo & Co said on Thursday it is shedding about 1,900 jobs, or less than 1 percent of its total workforce, as mortgage refinancings slow.

A new research has found strong correlation between unemployment and mortality. The research by McGill Sociology Professor Eran Shor showed that unemployment increases the risk of premature mortality by 63 percent.

Last April 3rd marked the passing of a milestone in computing that a majority of laptop users would not be aware of. It was the 30th anniversary of portable computing and what a ride it has been. Thirty years ago, Adam Osborne's name was a by-word in emerging personal computer communities. His name rang more bells than an upstart named Steve Jobs who chose to name his small computer company after a fruit and lent the same name, perhaps appropriately to his first product.