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Job cuts at Motorola
CHICAGO -- Motorola Inc. will eliminate 1,000 jobs and take a charge of $50 million for severance benefits as it moves to complete a spinoff of its money-losing semiconductor unit, the company said Tuesday.
Analysts said the reductions will help the world's No. 2 cell phone maker fine-tune its operations.
Some of the job cuts are from corporate positions that Motorola officials determined were unnecessary after the company's chip operations began working independently as Freescale Semiconductor Inc., Motorola spokeswoman Jennifer Weyrauch said. Motorola employs 88,000 worldwide.
Associated Press