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(Computerworld) Microsoft Corp. will lay off H-1B workers as part of its recently announced plan to let go of 5,000 employees over 18 months, but it will continue to hire foreign workers as well, even though a U.S. senator insists that the software ...

Observing that the H-1B work visa programme helps hire the best available talent of the world, American software giant Microsoft has said H-1B visa holders has contributed significantly to its success. However, the company, which had recently announced ...

Microsoft, which has recently announced shedding some 5,000 jobs, will be giving pink slips to H-1B visa holders too, despite acknowledging that this category of workers has a significant contribution to the company's success. Microsoft, in a letter to ...

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton met with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas at the Palestinian Authority headquarters in Ramallah in the West Bank on Wednesday. RAMALLAH, West Bank - A day after announcing a new diplomatic initiative in the ...

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Four Indian outsourcing companies, followed by Microsoft Corp., Accenture Ltd., Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. and Cisco Systems Inc., received the largest share of available H-1B visas for skilled workers in 2008, according to the latest data from ...

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Immigration enforcement ran off the rails in the Bush era, when federal agents stormed factories to shackle workers and local authorities staged their own crackdowns with little or no oversight from Washington. It was a war without a plan, and it solved ...

Washington: Microsoft, which has recently announced shedding some 5,000 jobs, will be giving pink slips to H-1B visa holders too, despite acknowledging that this category of workers has a significant contribution to the company's success. Microsoft, in a ...

I am trying to capture the spirit of bipartisanship as practiced by the Democratic Party over the past eight years. Thus, I have chosen as my lead this proposition: Obama lied; the economy died. Obviously, I am borrowing this from the Democratic theme of ...

The increasing violence that the drug cartels have been inflicting on Mexico is now making its way across the Rio Grande into the United States. And examples of the spillover are spreading and becoming ever more numerous, according to American officials ...

Microsoft is not sheltered from the unprecedented crisis battering the global economy. In response to challenges we are confronting in markets around the world, we announced last month that we would cut jobs and reduce our overall employment level for ...

ASHGABAT -- The United States is funding border-crossing stations to prevent smuggling across the Turkmen border, a key entry point for narcotics and other illegal materials. The 2009 International Narcotics Control Strategy identified the Turkmen border ...

WASHINGTON: Observing that the H-1B work visa programme helps hire the best available talent of the world, American software giant Microsoft has said H-1B visa holders has contributed significantly to its success. However, the company, which had recently ...

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(RTTNews) - Although H1-B employees accounted for less than 15 percent of Microsoft's U.S. workforce, they have long made crucial contributions to the company's innovation successes and to its ability to help create jobs in the United States, American ...

Info-Tech 'H-1B visa has contributed significantly to our success' WASHINGTON: Observing that the H-1B work visa programme helps hire the best available talent of the world, American software giant Microsoft has said H-1B visa holders has contributed ...

We're only about a month into the Obama presidency and already immigrant-rights activists are getting restless. Supporters of comprehensive immigration reform are more determined than ever to overcome the nativist fears that helped derail their efforts ...