save $600m as part of its cost-cutting response to recent poor results. That means the No. 2 handset maker will have slashed more than 10% of its workforce since the start of 2007. As recently as 2000, Motorola employed 150,000 people worldwide; that had declined to 66,000 by the beginning of the year. This spring, Motorola posted its first quarterly loss since 2004and the company has already warned that results from the April-June quarter will not be good.
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