Around 800 workers at Motorola (NYSE: MMI) won’t ever get to experience life as a Google (NSDQ: GOOG) employee, unless they join the search giant in the more traditional fashion. As the months tick away following Google’s announcement that it intended to purchase the handset maker, Motorola’s profits are still…

No one ever said turnarounds were easy, and Nokia (NYSE: NOK)—currently the world’s largest handset maker—is one big ship. Today the company announced that it would be downsizing its manufacturing, as well as its mapping and commerce divisions, which will result in job losses totalling 3,500.

A look at some of the big stories in mobile today: —Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) patent cases: The ITC is launching its investigation of Apple’s patent complaint against HTC. If it sides with Apple, that could mean a ban on some Android-based HTC devices. Meanwhile, Apple’s ramped up its request to…

Those “cost optimization” plans promised by Research in Motion (NSDQ: RIMM) last month have kicked into gear. The company will lay off 10 percent of its global workforce—roughly 2,000—with notices started in Canada, the U.S. and some other countries this week, and reorganize some of the deck chairs at the…

Research in Motion (NSDQ: RIMM) warned us in April that its first-quarter revenue and earnings would be lighter than it had originally thought, and it wasn’t kidding. First-quarter revenue was just $4.9 billion, missing analyst expectations by a wide margin although it managed to slightly exceed lowered expectations for earnings…

[Detail of how Lonely Planet is moving its digital team out of Melbourne] Hi everyone, Today we are making some changes to our organisation that will affect everyone at Lonely Planet, directly or indirectly, in order to reposition us to return to profitability while staying true to what we do…

Two big steps for Nokia (NYSE: NOK) today in its ongoing strategic shift: the company announced it would transfer all Symbian software operations to Accenture, including the 3,000 people that work in the division. It also said that it would begin a massive wave of layoffs that will total 4,000…

—Vodafone: Gerard Kleisterlee will be the next chairman of Vodafone, succeeding Sir John Bond, who is retiring in July 2011. Kleisterlee is currently the CEO and Chairman of Philips Electronics (NYSE: PHG). (via Release)

Is Nokia feeling the heat, or making itself lean and mean for competitive times ahead? The handset maker today said that it would be cutting 800 staff in its home market of Finland. This is on top part of the 1,800 layoffs worldwide that it announced in October. The news…

Not great news around the holidays, but at least some of the consultations won’t begin until January: UK mobile operators O2 and Everything Everywhere—the merger of T-Mobile and Orange in the UK—are separately preparing layoffs that will, in total, number in the thousands. O2 is focussing primarily in the area…

Earlier this year, News Corp (NSDQ: NWS). confirmed it wanted to sell Fox Mobile. Now it appears that in the meantime, it’s cutting costs and keeping lean.

Clearwire (NSDQ: CLWR) said in its third quarter results that it is taking a number of steps to reduce costs before its cash runs out in mid-2011. The measures include slashing 15 percent of its workforce, or roughly 600 employees, to an overall headcount of 3,600. It will also reduce…

USA Today Publisher Dave Hunke is embarking on the biggest change in the Gannett (NYSE: GCI) flagship’s 28-year history as he shifts away from print and towards mobile. The newsroom is being restructured around content rings instead of its four traditional departments of news, money, life and sports. On the…

News Corp.-owned IGN Entertainment, which includes both the video game network of the same name, as well as sites like AskMen, is going through a major round of layoffs. In an all-staff memo sent today, IGN president Roy Bahat says that while the company has been “doing well—we’re profitable and…

Leadership of the Fox Mobile Group is in disarray, as the CEO, COO and CMO have all left the company, mocoNews has learned. Fox Mobile has also recently conducted a deep round of layoffs in Berlin, where it had major operations, with as at least 70 people losing their jobs…

iPhone game startups keep raising funding, while bigger companies like Namco, ngmoco and Playdom are growing their iPhone game empires through acquisitions. But Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) may be gearing up to give them all a run for their money when it comes to crafting iPhone games—as AppleInsider reports that the…

The main reason for EA’s second round of mass layoffs within a single calendar year? The company is extremely bullish on digital. “As we said in previous quarters, we’re narrowing our focus to invest in core hits and digital,” said CEO John Riccitiello, during the company’s Q3 (its fiscal 2010…

So much for 2009 being the year of mobile, (or was that meant to be 2008)? Mobixell, the Israeli techonology provider for mobile messaging, advertising, and video, confirmed to mocoNews.net that the company has been forced to trim its staff. Mobixell marketing EVP Avichai Levy said it has cut 10…

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