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Medtronic Inc (MDT.N) cut its full-year earnings forecast, hampered by weakness in key medical device markets, and said it would eliminate up to 2,000 jobs, sending its shares down 2 percent. The world's largest medical device maker has struggled with slow sales as patients postponed treatments in the global

Pension funds and shareholder groups will back the proposal for a succession plan at Apple’s shareholder meeting on Wednesday.

Workers at a factory in east China's Suzhou industrial park, producing touch screens for Apple on contract have reportedly written a letter to Steve Jobs, conveying their grievances surrounding cases of chemical poisoning caused by a certain ingredient used in production.

The race is between US-based Boeing Co. and European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company (EADS) and the outcome will drastically change the face of both the country's employment sector.

Apple will release new MacBook Pros to celebrate Steve Jobs' birthday, according to reports citing many insiders.

The report shows that while healthcare employment rose 6.3 percent, employment in other sectors fell by 6.8 percent cumulatively in the period from December 2007.

President Barack Obama touted his agenda to foster innovation as a means of spurring job creation and boosting U.S. global competitiveness during a high-tech visit to

Jobs's appearance comes a day after dubious reports on the Apple's CEO's health.

If you talk to the press or speculate to a customer about the next iPad, that's the end of you, said an Apple retail store employee, in an interview with Popular Mechanics.

Intel Corp Chief Executive Paul Otellini will be named to a panel of experts advising President Barack Obama on jobs, the White House said on Friday. Otellini will join the President's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness, created in January to focus on lifting hiring and promoting growth.

Apple's chief executive Steve Jobs, who is rumored to have been fighting terminal cancer, attended a meeting of tech honchos with President Barack Obama in the outskirts of San Francisco City on Thursday.

Reports have surfaced that President Barack Obama is meeting with several tech executives including Apple's Steve Jobs and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg.

Google has announced its Google One Pass service, a flexible business model platform for publishers to take on Apple's recently launched subscription service for publishers.

Does the unemployment rate is really improving as the US labor force participation rate has been trending downward since 2000?

Results from The Carbon Salary Survey 2010 reveal that overall, remuneration for professionals working in the field were significantly higher during the year than what had been reported in 2009.

The Recovery Act, which was introduced by the US government in response to the Great Recession of the last decade, created or saved 3-4 million jobs and up to 5 million full-time equivalent jobs by the end of 2010, according to report.

Apple CEO Steve Jobs may have only six weeks to live, according to the US-based tabloid National Enquirer. The magazine has published photos of Jobs taken on February 8 outside Stanford Cancer Center that show Jobs looking extremely thin and frail.

Federal Reserve officials raised their forecasts for economic growth last month but remained unhappy with the job market's recovery.

The home improvement retailer is set to give significant boost to job creation in the economy, hiring over 60000 seasonal associates to cope with the demands of a busy spring season.

California Governor Jerry Brown issued a hiring freeze across state government in the midst of an estimated budget deficit of $25.4 billion.

Recent improvement in the U.S. labor market has shortened the duration of the U.S. Federal Reserve's extended period of near-zero interest rates, but only by about three months, a San Francisco Fed economist said. To try to blunt the effects of the Great Recession, the Fed lowered its target rate for overnight lending between banks to near zero in December 2008, and has promised to keep it there for an extended period.