The warning came on a day of gloom for the technology sector as weakening consumer demand prompted Microsoft to launch its first company-wide job cuts in its 34-year history with up to 5,000 jobs to go. Nokia also revealed a fall in 2008 profits and issued a gloomy forecast of a 10 per cent fall in global industry sales of mobile phones. In Korea, LG Electronics reported its first net loss in seven quarters as margins for its handsets and flat-panel TVs fell amid a price war.
上述警告出臺之日，科技行業經歷暗淡的一天，日漸疲軟的消費者需求使得微軟(Microsoft)啓動了其成立34年來首次全公司範圍的裁員，裁員人數至多爲5000人。諾基亞(Nokia) 也透露去年利潤滑坡，同時作出了全球手機行業銷售下降10%的悲觀預測。在南韓，LG電子(LG Electronics)報告稱，公司出現7個季度來首次淨虧損，原因是價格戰導致其手機和平板電視利潤率下降。
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