Tag Archive: investigation

Did they or didn’t they? That’s the question a Justice Department investigation will attempt to answer as it begins an investigation into the hiring practices of Google, Yahoo, and Apple.

At the heart of the matter is whether there was an agreement between the companies not to headhunt each other’s senior staff, which would stifle competition if any pact was formal. The Washington Post has been told by sources that the investigation could move to other tech companies, too.

Google and Apple are already under the FTC lens for sharing board members, according to Vnunet.

You’d think they’d know better. After all, they work for the Office of the Chief Technology Officer in Washington DC. But no, apparently not. Nine employees have been fired for using their work PCs to watch porn during working hours. And that’s not just casually. An five-week investigation determined that the nine visited an “egregious” number of porn sites during 2007, Vnunet reports (how many sites does it take to be egregious, anyway?).   The investigation involved a forensic examination of 10,000 city computers and followed a complaint by someone in the Office of Property Management about colleagues downloading pornographic images at work.   Although nine have gone, the investigation hasn’t yet concluded. If other offenders are found, they could face disciplinary action, raging from warning letters to firing, based on the number of times they visited porn sites from work.