After buying EMC Dell mulls 3,000 job cuts

John Leonard
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Marketing, supply chain and general administration workers most likely to be hit

Dell could cut up to 3,000 jobs following its acquisition of EMC last week. The $67bn merger, one of the largest in technology history, saw EMC taken over by Dell to create an organisation of 140,0...

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