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Re:Nike fires majority of FuelBand team, will stop making we... by ben1040 on Saturday April 19, 2014 @12:35PM (#7613836)
Worth mentioning too that Nike has several job openings in PDX for Android engineers to work on Nike+, so clearly they're looking to shed their Apple exclusivity thus far.
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Re:Nike fires majority of FuelBand team, will stop making we... by smoyer on Sunday April 20, 2014 @07:55AM (#7616536)
Or perhaps their website hasn't kept up with the restructuring? On another note, why are these reports saying the engineers were "fired"? It's one thing to be let go when a project was discontinued but nobody wants the stigma of being fired on their record.
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Re:Nike fires majority of FuelBand team, will stop making we... by walshemj on Sunday April 20, 2014 @01:13PM (#7617563)
Unfortunetly a lot of people slopply use fired as an exact synonym for redundancy or layoffs Its not!

One would have hoped that a suposedly jounalistic endevour would use correct language for fear of beiing sued for "professional slander"

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