Facebook said it was not acquiring the Gowalla service or technology.

Oracle is accusing Hewlett-Packard of fraud in connection with the companies' settlement agreement over the hiring of former HP CEO Mark Hurd, and wants the pact dissolved, according to a court filing Tuesday.

Ever wonder which up-and-coming tech skills are catching the attention of IT hiring managers? Careers site Dice.com keeps track of the most popular terms that employers search for, and it also notes when emerging skills start appearing in keyword searches with greater frequency.

The Virtual Computing Environment Co. (VCE), formed from the joint venture of Cisco and EMC, this week said it is establishing headquarters in Richardson, Texas, and hiring 434 people.

Perhaps the best thing that will be said about 2010 and IT hiring is that large layoffs have tapered off and the overall trend seems to favor hiring.

Skype has named Tony Bates as its next CEO, hiring him away from Cisco Systems, where he led some of the company's core businesses.

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is investigating whether the hiring practices of Google, Yahoo, Apple and some other technology companies may have violated antitrust regulations, The Washington Post reported Wednesday.

The time for talking about bringing business skills into technology jobs is over, and hiring managers in 2008 expect to find IT professionals with as much business acumen as technical know-how.