Computer Jobs
Gov. Rick Perry today announced that Apple will expand its presence in Texas with a $304 million investment in a new campus in Austin that will create more than 3,600 new jobs. The new campus will more than double the size of Apple’s workforce in Texas over the next decade, supporting the company’s growing operations in the Americas with expanded customer support, sales and accounting functions for the region. In exchange for Apple’s commitment to create these new jobs in Texas, the state has offered Apple an investment of $21 million over ten years through the Texas Enterprise Fund (TEF).
Intel’s hiring surge ends four years of austerity, when the company eliminated one in every five jobs. It also coincides with Intel’s latest attempt to reinvent itself.
www.tmcnet.com reports Intel is reinventing itself, cooking up its own mobile operating system and hiring the software developers to create it.
www.bizjournals.com reports The Virtual Computing Environment Co., a joint venture of Cisco and EMC, will headquarter in Richardson Texas (Dallas suburb) and bring 434 jobs.
The Atlanta Business Chronicle reports that Dell will add up to 200 jobs at it’s acquired company, SecureWorks, which monitors corporate networks against attacks.