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• Employment engine keeps humming for IT job seekers

  Momentum keeps building in tech industry hiring, with unemployment dropping even lower than before. But it's not all good news, as Web developers and others saw increases in joblessness.

• Hiring streak stays hot for tech pros

  Tech professionals continue to have rosy prospects in the job market.

• As jobs in solar power boom, R&D investment falls

  The solar power industry is expanding quickly, but not when it comes to funding for technology advances.

• Cloud drives job creation in banner month for tech

  The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported 3,600 jobs were created in the tech category, 'data processing, hosting and related services,' marking the single best month of job growth in this category since June 1998.

• Dice: US tech unemployment stands at 3.3 percent

  The unemployment rate among U.S. IT workers stood at 3.3 percent in the fourth quarter of 2012, significantly lower than the overall unemployment rate of 7.8 percent, according to tech job board Dice.

• IT Jobs Up, Skilled Immigrants Act Stalls

  A U.S. government report showing that hiring is up had some good news for IT workers: The tech industry added about 7,100 jobs in November, an increase of 0.17% from the previous month.

• U.S. tech employment nears its all-time high

  The U.S. government's report today that the unemployment rate is down and <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9222272/New_year_new_job_Ten_companies_that_are_hiring">hiring is up</a> showed some good news for tech workers as well.

• Feds report tech job losses in Mass. between '01 and '09

  A snapshot of high-tech development in Massachusetts by the federal government found that tech employment in the state declined 15%, or 47,000 jobs, between 2001 and 2009.