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HP job cuts loom for Australian employees

A number of Australian employees of Hewlett-Packard are facing the loss of their jobs as the global computer giant looks to slash its worldwide workforce by up to 30,000.

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Dow Jones appoints new director of APAC sales

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Dow Jones & Company has appointed Mark Hollands to the newly created role of Director of Sales, Asia Pacific, for the Content Technology Solutions unit of the company’s Enterprise Media Group. Prior to joining Dow Jones, Hollands was Vice President of Research Development at IT research organization Gartner. Prior to that, he was editor of the IT section of national daily newspaper, The Australian. Dow Jones has also appointed Andrew Rowe as director of marketing and channel sales for Content Technology Solutions in Asia Pacific. Rowe was formerly the sales director, Asia Pacific of Factiva, which Dow Jones acquired in December 2006.  Rowe joined Factiva in 1999 from Reuters as Sales Development Manager for Europe, Middle East and Africa. He established Factiva’s Asia Pacific operation and then ran its Customer Service and Customer Development Centre.