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UnitedHealth cuts 4,000 jobs and 2008 outlook (San Francisco Chronicle)
UnitedHealth Group Inc. will cut at least 4,000 jobs, or 5 percent of its workforce, in a restructuring and warned Wednesday that a weaker environment and higher costs will cut into profits this year. Chief Executive Stephen J. Hemsley said in a conference...

Jobs, Apple Execs Hit with Fraud Suit (The Mac Observer)
Apple CEO Steve Jobs along with current and former board members have been slapped with a class action law suit over their alleged involvement in the company's backdated stock options incidents. The suit was filed on June 28 and accuses the defendants of committing fraud by falsifying financial statements and concealing millions of dollars in executive compensation

Starbucks to Close 600 Stores, May Cut 12,000 Jobs (Update3) (Bloomberg.com)
July 1 (Bloomberg) -- Starbucks Corp. will close 600 U.S. coffee shops and eliminate as many as 12,000 jobs, the most in its history, as Chief Executive Officer Howard Schultz slows the chain's expansion after it doubled in size in four years.

UnitedHealth cuts 4,000 jobs and 2008 outlook (AP via Yahoo! News)
UnitedHealth Group Inc. will cut at least 4,000 jobs, or 5 percent of its workforce, in a restructuring and warned Wednesday that a weaker environment and higher costs will cut into profits this year.

02-07-2008: SapuraCrest steps up vessel expansion as it bids for RM7b worth of jobs (The Edge Daily)
KUALA LUMPUR : SapuraCrest Petroleum Bhd, which is bidding for about RM7 billion worth of jobs in the region, is stepping up its fleet expansion, its executive vice chairman Datuk Shahril Shamsuddin said.

Starbucks To Close 600 Stores, May Cut 12,000 Jobs (The New York Sun)
Starbucks Corp. will close 600 coffee shops in America and eliminate as many as 12,000 jobs, the most in its history, as the company's chief executive officer, Howard Schultz, slows the chain's expansion after it doubled in size in four years. Starbucks gained as much as 7.2% in late Nasdaq trading after saying the reductions amount to 7% of its workforce worldwide. The cuts include full- and ...

Siemens to cut jobs, but won't say how many (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
German industrial conglomerate Siemens AG said Wednesday the company planned to cut jobs as a result of the current economic downturn, but didn't specify the number of affected positions.

Siemens plans to cut an unspecified number of jobs (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
German industrial conglomerate Siemens AG said Wednesday the company planned to cut jobs as a result of the economic downturn, but didn't specify how many.

“Wall-E”: An Homage to Mr. Jobs (New York Times)
Talk about product placements. “ Wall-E ,” the Pixar movie that took in $62.5 million over the weekend, is chock full of references to Apple products. Perhaps that’s because Steven P. Jobs, the chief executive of Apple, used to own Pixar before he sold it to the Walt Disney Company.

Apple, Steve Jobs, Executives, Board, Sued For Securities Fraud (TechWeb via Yahoo! News)
InformationWeek - The 105-page complaint seeks to recoup billions in lost share value after Apple's admission of executive compensation though the backdating of stock option grants.