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BlackBerry Ltd. has confirmed that it is laying off 200 employees in Waterloo headquarters and in a manufacturing facility in Florida. The layoffs are a part of the company’s new turnaround plan by CEO John Chen. BlackBerry issued a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notice that it would be laying off 75 manufacturing employees at its facility in Sunrise, Fla., and ...

If the human race wants to survive, then we must quickly shut down all our efforts put in towards killer robot. If we do not stop ourselves from creating artificially intelligent robotic warriors, we might just have a terminator on our hands just like in the movie Terminator. Quite a few individuals believe that killer robot with artificial intelligence should ...

Despite a sluggish overall economic output, employers in the US added a solid 292,000 jobs last month, indicating that the country’s resilience at a time of slow global growth and financial turmoil. The Labor Department on Friday said that the unemployment rate stayed at five percent. An average of 284,000 jobs was added during October-December, the best three-month increase, since ...

According to a market analysis by AAA, gasoline prices could remain low or further decline in 2016. The company predicts that gas prices could stay steady or drop by 10 cents in the coming weeks. AAA said that gas prices in 2015 was the second lowest they have been in a decade. It is estimated that the average price of ...

Delayed Christmas shipments from FedEx disappointed some people, for not delivering their packages in time for the holidays. The shipper said that some FedEx employees volunteered to work on Christmas, to deliver the pending packages. Some customers in the Southeast were unable to place their gifts under the tree on Christmas Eve due to the delayed shipments. FedEx emailed a ...

Around $8.7 billion or around 10 trillion would be spent by LG Display in order to build a large factory wherein or Organic Light-Emitting Diode (OLED) panels would be made. The company would be spending around 1.84 trillion won in order to construct a building for P10 plant in Paju, which is in South Korea. The panels would be built ...

While talking about Bitcoin or Blockchain, a lot of things that divert our mind to business. Microsoft, One of the popular tech company joined with ConsenSys (Brooklyn startup) to build a Bitcoin similar platform. According to the Reuters reports, ConsenSys corporation with holds every skill to support Microsoft. I’m sure, these financial institutions that come under Bitcoin are going to handle by ConsenSys. The main ...

Technology company ConnectWise has announced that has added 147 new jobs to its Tampa campus since February 2014. The new jobs used grant money from the state to attract top talent. Under the terms of the grant through Florida’s Qualified Target Industry program, the jobs must be created between now and 2021 and have an average salary of $47,581. The ...

The job fair for Tampa Premium Outlets is being viewed as a rousing success after more than a thousand people showed up to apply for the hundreds of jobs advertised as available. The vendors doing the hiring appeared pleased with the turnout. The soon-to-open Pasco shopping center had roughly 800 positions to fill. Applicants that came prepared and appeared enthusiastic ...

Over the next three years, as many as 500 new jobs will come to Tampa Bay. Johnson & Johnson, a highly successful and revered medical equipment and pharmaceutical company, announced it will open an 111,000 square foot facility. For operations, at least 500 new jobs will be created with an average annual salary of $75,000. Reports of new jobs was ...