Virgin Mobile USA announced it is eliminating approximately 45 positions in its New Jersey and California offices, slashing about 10 percent of its workforce. In a memo to employees, Virgin Mobile USA CEO Dan Schulman blamed the cuts on the MVNO's transition of IT services to IBM and its $38 million acquisition [1] of SK Telecom's troubled U.S. wireless unit Helio. See the full story in FierceMobileContent. [2]