Niantic lays off staff and shuts down games as it focuses on Pokémon Go
[ad_1] Niantic is making some major organizational changes, including layoffs, game shutdowns, and the closure of its Los Angeles studio,...
Plex lays off more than 20 percent of its staff
[ad_1] Plex laid off 37 people on Monday, a figure that represents more than 20 percent of the company’s staff,...
FIS acquires, and Better.com lays off
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Windows adds support for RAR, Netflix cracks down on passwords, and Meta lays off workers
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Europe’s Moral Crusader Lays Down the Law on Encryption | WIRED
[ad_1] “If we, as the EU, can mandate service providers to scan for some content through a backdoor, other states...
Daily Crunch: Citing slow growth and desire to be ‘at the forefront of the AI era,’ Dropbox CEO lays off 500
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Twitch lays off over 400 staff amid Amazon downsizing
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Consumer electronics reseller Reebelo adds to Series A as it lays down roots in US
[ad_1] The global circular economy, comprising the sale of secondhand and refurbished goods, was valued at about $339 billion in...
Microsoft lays off AI ethics and society team
[ad_1] Microsoft laid off its entire ethics and society team within the artificial intelligence organization as part of recent layoffs...
Wattpad lays off 15% of its staff, blames changing economic environment
[ad_1] Challenging economic conditions are affecting companies of all sizes, resulting in job cuts. Storytelling platform Wattpad announced Tuesday that...
Elon Musk lays off more Twitter employees in sales, engineering
[ad_1] Dozens of Twitter employees across sales and engineering departments were laid off last week, including one of Musk’s direct...
The Ohio Derailment Lays Bare the Hellish Plastic Crisis
[ad_1] That's what makes the disaster in Ohio so alarming. Five rail cars of vinyl chloride burned—some of it done...
More tech job market misery as Dell lays off 5% of worldwide workforce • TechCrunch
[ad_1] Tech workers took another big hit today when Dell announced it was laying off 5% of its worldwide employees...
Car-sharing SPAC Getaround lays off 10% of staff • TechCrunch
[ad_1] Peer-to-peer car-sharing company Getaround is laying off 10% of staff starting Thursday. The layoffs are part of a restructure...
Waymo lays off staff as Alphabet announces 12,000 job cuts • TechCrunch
[ad_1] Waymo, the self-driving technology unit under Alphabet, quietly laid off workers Monday, according to The Information and several posts...
Alphabet CEO lays off 12,000 people, says company ‘hired for a different economic reality’ • TechCrunch
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A Damning US Report Lays Bare Amazon’s Worker Injury Crisis
[ad_1] Amazon was hit with an unusually forceful safety citation by federal investigators in the US today. The findings appear to...
News aggregator SmartNews lays off 40% of US and China staff, with further reductions planned in Japan • TechCrunch
[ad_1] SmartNews, a Tokyo-headquartered news aggregation website and app valued at $2 billion as of 2021, today announced a 40%...
Greenlight, kids-focused fintech startup, lays off 104 employees to optimize expenses • TechCrunch
[ad_1] Greenlight, a fintech startup offering debit cards to kids, has laid off 104 employees — or over 21% of...
The FAA NOTAM Outage Lays Bare an Essential System Everyone Hates
[ad_1] The United States Federal Aviation Administration today halted flights taking off across the country beginning early this morning and...