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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 ...

As the unemployment rate in the U.S. rises, the federal government is tightening its oversight of a controversial visa program that allows companies to bring in skilled workers from overseas. The crackdown is aimed at reducing alleged abuses of what are ...

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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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 ...

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 ...

H-1B has major contribution to our success: M?softMicosoft begins process of testing Kumo.comYahoo! CFO Jorgensen to quitYahoo! CFO Jorgensen to quit Washington: Observing that the H-1B work visa programme helps hire the best available talent of the ...

Washington (PTI): 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 ...

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 ...

As the unemployment rate in the U.S. rises, the federal government is tightening its oversight of a controversial visa program that allows companies to bring in skilled workers from overseas. The crackdown is aimed at reducing alleged abuses of what are ...

(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 ...

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 ...

Mar, 009, 1 hrs IST, Infotech Text: WASHINGTON: Senator Charles Grassley, R-Iowa had sent a letter to Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer, dated January , questioning Microsoft's layoff plans targeting ,000 employees. In particular, Grassley questioned ...

The program was supposed to root out violent felons by deputizing police officers as immigration agents. But the government report says some agencies used it differently. ...

Two men arrested in late February in the beating death of an Ecuadorian immigrant have been indicted on murder charges, prosecutors announced Tuesday. Keith Phoenix, 28, and Hakim Scott, 25, will face charges of second-degree murder as a hate crime, ...

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WASHINGTON: Microsoft Corp will neither favour American nor foreign workers as it cuts thousands of jobs, the company said in response to a senator's call that the jobs of US employees be preserved. Microsoft said in January that it would eliminate up to ...

On April 1, employers will once again race to file H-1B visa petitions, hoping that their applications will be among the 85,000 randomly selected by the U.S. government, allowing the companies to hire foreign workers for fiscal 2010, beginning Oct. 1. ...

Previous Issues Comment Errata Yesterday's Immigration Daily issue included three unrelated errors: Charles Wheeler's Article omitted the USCIS minutes. We feature the Article in full in today's issue. The CnG event included the incorrect link - the ...