Cuts News

Current Media, a cable TV company co-founded by former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, announced Wednesday it's cutting 80 jobs as part of a reorganization, AFP reported.

Current Media, which was co-founded by Al Gore and Joel Hyatt , is cutting 80 staffers as it changes its programming strategy away from short-form video.

By now most people know about the upcoming weekends of whimsy on the N Judah Bus , and by now, most people know about the upcoming Really Big Cuts to Service that start in December.

A federal judge in San Francisco today temporarily blocked a planned 10 percent cut in state payments to group homes for foster children.

In the unlikely event of a film being made about the experience of the public sector over the next four years, we can pretty much assume it will be called There Will Be Cuts .

NEW YORK The New York Times is trying to lure more readers and advertisers by launching regional editions with extra stories in major U.S. markets.

McGraw-Hill Cos. , the textbook publisher and owner of the Standard & Poora s credit-ratings unit, reported third-quarter profit dropped 14 percent and said 2009 revenue will fall more than it previously forecast.

Visa Inc. on Tuesday posted a profit for its fiscal fourth quarter, reversing a year-ago loss, as cost reductions and growing debit card use made up for a decline in payment volume reflecting consumer spending cutbacks.

Feature As more companies enforce across-the-board pay cuts and unpaid furloughs, a rising tide of IT professionals is seeing its annual compensation decline and must decide whether to switch employers as a result.

Time Inc. is preparing to make a new round of job cuts, according to a person with knowledge of the plans, as the Time Warner Inc.

Updated to indicate Amazon will no longer sell the original Kindle. In a shot across the bow of Barnes & Noble , which just introduced Nook , a $259 e-reading device, Amazon.com said today in its quarterly earnings report that it would lower the cost of its International Kindle to $259 from $279. The move comes two weeks after it first introduced ...

Nearly three million of the 10.5 million seniors in private Medicare health plans would be at least partly shielded from the planned cuts to the program under the Senate Finance Committee health overhaul bill, according to a Kaiser Health News analysis.

The issue of whether California is in violation of the federal economic stimulus act and other federal laws when the Legislature and Governor permanently eliminated 9 Medi-Cal benefits for adults, including adult dental and podiatry services will be the focus of a crucial emergency hearing before the US 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, Thursday ...

Amgen Inc., the worlda s largest biotechnology company, said profit increased 24 percent on cost cuts.

The New York Times launched a new two-page section called "The Bay Area" this past week, and as I was preparing to critique it yesterday, the news broke that the troubled newspaper company will be eliminating another 100 jobs from its newsroom between now and the end of this year.

It will be more difficult today to adopt a Fido in San Francisco. For the first time in its 141-year history, the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, the city's largest pet adoption agency, has cut back from a seven-days-a-week service.

Federal District Court Judge Claudia Wilken is scheduled to hear on October 19, Monday morning at 10:00 AM in Oakland, a motion filed by attorneys representing In-Home Supportive Services recipients and disability and senior advocacy groups, to stop state budget cuts set to go into effect November 1st impacting over 136,000 children and adults with ...

UC Berkeley has agreed to pay a consultant $3 million to help the school find new ways to save money - an agreement that has irritated some faculty members whose pay is being cut this year.

One out of ever four homes listed for sale in the United States has seen at least one price cut, according to data from San Francisco-based online realty firm Trulia.

Electronic artist Moby understands better than most the importance of domestic violence shelters for women in need, having grown up with a mother who was involved in several abusive relationships.