Big company, big cuts
News of impending layoffs at IBM leaked yesterday, but the official numbers weren’t confirmed until today. IBM says it is cutting 5,000 jobs in the United States. Hopefully their severance packages are big enough that they won’t need short term loans to get by.
Headed for the door
Yesterday, [...]
President broadcasts meeting online
In a first-of-its-kind event, President Barack Obama today held a town hall meeting in the White House that was broadcast live on the internet. He answered questions submitted to Whitehouse.gov before taking live questions from the audience in the East Room.
Taxing questions on taxes
One question from a [...]
Whitehouse.gov gets flood of traffic
Free tickets to the White House Easter Egg Roll are available online today. Sort of. Many blogs have reported that if you try to get tickets at www.whitehouse.gov/eastereggroll the site crashes.
So, while you’re waiting for the bugs to be worked out, perhaps you can tune in [...]