Pace of Job Losses Moderated in April; Jobless Rate at 8.9 Percent [The Wall Street Journal]

Sprint Employees Get Chatty Over Palm Pre, Get Fired [InformationWeek]

Dice Reveals Tech Skills Seen Most Often in Job Postings [TechRepublic]

Hong Kong IT Vacancies up 22.6 Percent in Q1 [NetworkWorld]

AMD Combining Chip, Graphics Units In Major Restructuring [InformationWeek]

Pentagon to Add 20,000 Jobs for Contracting Reform [The Associated Press]

Obama Names Science and Technology Director [InformationWeek]

Tech Education Partnership Leads to IT Jobs [NewsFactor.com]

Take This Dream and Crunch It [The Wall Street Journal] 

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Wrapsol Names Retail Sales Veteran Patrican to Lead Retail Effort [BusinessWire]

Chip-Stacking Startup Taps Ex-Seagate Bill Watkins as an Advisor [Byte&Switch]