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DESPITE RELEASING STRONGER than expected earnings and at the time expressing optimism for 2009, a round of job cuts is underway at IBM Corp. and Big Blue's Canadian operations have not been spared.
The year has already seen heavy layoffs in the IT sector, including 5,000 at Microsoft and another 5,000 to 6,000 at Intel. Thus far, while IBM has yet to comment publicly on any layoffs or specific numbers, the Internet is rife with reports from allegedly laid-off IBMers.
According to Alliance@IBM, a Web site created by a local of the...