By Mike Freeman, The San Diego Union-Tribune Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Sep. 10--For hundreds of Gateway employees, the other shoe dropped yesterday as the Poway computer maker said it would cut 850 jobs in South Dakota and Missouri.
That's on top of last week's announcement that the company would close its computer factory in Hampton, Va., eliminating 450 jobs.
The money-losing company is embarking on a cost-conscious way of doing business that relies more on outside contractors to produce its computers and to provide support servi