Sprint (NYSE: S) is retrenching a bit following an exhausting year for the company, combining its consumer and business divisions in a move designed to save cash that also recognizes the nature of the modern smartphone buyer.

CNN is cutting dozens of editorial jobs following a three-year review of its “workflow” operations, TV Newser reported. According to a memo obtained by paidContent and attributed to CNN SVP Jack Womack, technology and user-gen has made the network a little less reliant on editorial staffers, particularly photojournalists.

Around 800 workers at Motorola (NYSE: MMI) won’t ever get to experience life as a Google (NSDQ: GOOG) employee, unless they join the search giant in the more traditional fashion. As the months tick away following Google’s announcement that it intended to purchase the handset maker, Motorola’s profits are still…

Following recent warnings of Q3 revenue declines due to the weak economy, The New York Times Co. (NYSE: NYT) is looking to cut 20 newsroom jobs by the end of the year, the NYT reported. The cuts would come through buyouts, as recently installed editor Jill Abramson said in a…

The BBC will axe nearly 2,000 jobs as it looks to save £670m a year in long-awaited cost-cutting plans announced on Thursday morning.

No one ever said turnarounds were easy, and Nokia (NYSE: NOK)—currently the world’s largest handset maker—is one big ship. Today the company announced that it would be downsizing its manufacturing, as well as its mapping and commerce divisions, which will result in job losses totalling 3,500.

Those “cost optimization” plans promised by Research in Motion (NSDQ: RIMM) last month have kicked into gear. The company will lay off 10 percent of its global workforce—roughly 2,000—with notices started in Canada, the U.S. and some other countries this week, and reorganize some of the deck chairs at the…

Another day, another publisher looking to take a step away from print. Future Publishing (LSE: FUTR), the UK-based special-interest magazine publisher, is looking to sell or close eight print titles and lose 100 staff, as it looks to stem a decline in revenues, particularly in the U.S., and continue its…

After preparing observers for massive layoffs last week, Cisco (NSDQ: CSCO) says it will cut 6,500 jobs, or roughly nine percent of it global workforce, the company announced. Included in the 6,500 will be about 2,100 staffers who took a voluntary buyout. The San Jose, CA.-based company expects to absorb…

NBC Universal (NSDQ: CMCSA) Digital Studio, three-year-old unit charged with creating original web content, will cease operations over the next few months, Ad Age reported.  NBCU parent Comcast wants to shift its online resources to better support existing broadcast and cable programming. About 11 jobs are being eliminated, including that…

Several parties are still negotiating to buy all or part of MySpace (NSDQ: NWS), building to a possible conclusion before News Corp.‘s fiscal quarter closes at the end of the week. At the same time, MySpace is slashing costs with yet another major staff cut: paidContent has learned that likely…

Research in Motion (NSDQ: RIMM) warned us in April that its first-quarter revenue and earnings would be lighter than it had originally thought, and it wasn’t kidding. First-quarter revenue was just $4.9 billion, missing analyst expectations by a wide margin although it managed to slightly exceed lowered expectations for earnings…

[Detail of how Lonely Planet is moving its digital team out of Melbourne] Hi everyone, Today we are making some changes to our organisation that will affect everyone at Lonely Planet, directly or indirectly, in order to reposition us to return to profitability while staying true to what we do…

Considering the amount of cash Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is spending on retaining employees, it only makes sense that it would reward its top executives handsomely too, right? The company said in an SEC filing this afternoon that it had handed out nearly $8 million in cash bonuses and $50 million…

Update: CEO Tim Armstrong’s full memo to staffers. AOL (NYSE: AOL) will make no job cuts in Europe, the company tells paidContent:UK, despite a 900-person cull that will include 200 lost from its U.S. media and technology groups plus 400 laid off and 300 outsourced in India.

Update: CEO Tim Armstrong’s full memo to staffers. AOL (NYSE: AOL) CEO Tim Armstrong took the stage at Bloomberg Media Summit and confirmed last night’s big news: the company is cutting 900 jobs; in India, 400 people were laid off and 300 jobs were outsourced and in the U.S., 200…

Last week, AOL (NYSE: AOL) CEO Tim Armstrong told the crowd at paidContent 2011 that layoffs—aka “job changes”—were coming following the $315 million deal to acquire the Huffington Post. The layoffs started Thursday in India, where AOL’s operations are being dramatically downsized: 400 jobs lost, 300 outsourced, roughly 200 remaining,…

Mahalo, one of the sites reportedly most affected by Google’s move last week to penalize sites with low-quality content, is laying off 10 percent of its employees. In a message (via Center Networks) CEO Jason Calacanis and president Jason Rapp say the “changes have led to a significant dip in…

RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK), which has been undergoing an aggressive restructuring under CEO Bob Kimball, is cutting 130 jobs, or 10 percent of its workforce. This is the third round of layoffs since Kimball replaced long-time CEO Rob Glaser a year ago; the company cut 60 jobs in March and eliminated…