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Tech Jobs Fair Better Than Private Sector in Q4

Posted March 31, 2009 8:56 AM

From CNET News.com:

Software services in the U.S. helped temper the overall sequential decline in technology jobs during the fourth quarter, allowing the industry to minimize jobs losses compared to the private sector, according to a TechAmerica report released late Monday. Tech jobs, overall, dipped 0.6 percent, or by 38,000 positions, sequentially in the fourth quarter, while U.S. private sector jobs declined 1.3 percent during the same period, according to TechAmerica, a technology advocacy trade group.

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03/31/2009 12:33 PM

You'd think that a CNN Tech Section headline would not be misspelled.

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03/31/2009 1:36 PM

The misspellings on all the major news outlets is becoming epidemic. I have children learning to read and I cannot trust any printed material to contain correct spellings and word usage. It is very, very sad.

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03/31/2009 2:18 PM

Aww Cmon, Next you'll be saying you want the news unbiased and full of truth.

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