Apple says Al Gore and James Bell will retire from its board this year, and Wanda Austin, ex-president and CEO of The Aerospace Corporation, will join the board
Dr. Wanda Austin joins as Al Gore departs Vish Gain / Silicon Republic : STEM advocate Wanda Austin to join Apple board Mark Gurman / Fortune : Apple undergoes its biggest board shakeup in years as 2 ...
Sources: Lyft plans to lay off 1,200+, or 30%+ of its 4,000+ staff, days after its new CEO took over, aiming to cut its costs by 50%; Lyft cut ~700 jobs in 2022
at least 30% of its staff. It's struggling to keep up with Uber. Lynn Doan / Fortune : ‘We need to bring our costs down’: Lyft plans to slash another 1,200 jobs after losing ground to rival Uber and s...
Twitch CEO Emmett Shear steps down after 16 years at the company, replaced by president Dan Clancy, effective immediately; Shear is a Justin.tv co-founder
My work on Twitch began in October 2006, when Justin, Michael … Jay Peters / The Verge : Twitch CEO Emmett Shear is resigning James Batchelor / GamesIndustry.biz : Twitch CEO Emmett Shear steps down K...
Activision Blizzard will convert all its 1,100 temporary and contingent QA workers to full-time employees on July 1 and raise the minimum hourly rate to $20
To Ubisoft, then, and a chance to end the week with a merry dance … Rhiannon Bevan / TheGamer : Union Calls Out Activision For Undermining Strike Effort By Not Including Raven Workers In Pay Rise Bren...
Activision Blizzard will convert all its 1,100 temporary and contingent QA workers to full-time employees on July 1 and raise the minimum hourly rate to $20
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As Xbox turns 20, Phil Spencer and other executives discuss future plans, including Game Pass and xCloud, exclusive games, Xbox history, and more
it won't end here Pure Xbox : Phil Spencer: Xbox Game Pass Isn't ‘Burning Cash’, It's Very Sustainable Nalin Rawat / fossbytes.com : Xbox's 20th Anniversary: Halo Launch, TV Show, Backward Compatibili...
Clubhouse hires Justin Uberti, a Google engineer who created the WebRTC standard, Google Duo, and led engineering for Stadia, as head of streaming technology
Jay Peters / The Verge : Tweets: @juberti , @chrismessina , and @xoxolizza See also Mediagazer Tweets: Justin Uberti / @juberti : Some news: after almost 15 years at @Google, today is my first day at...
Amazon says Andy Jassy will become CEO on July 5, which marks 27 years to the day that Amazon was incorporated
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Google moves all job interviews to Hangouts “for the foreseeable future” due to coronavirus, while Amazon and Facebook have also limited on-site job interviews
Jay Peters / The Verge : Tweets: @carlquintanilla , @dtunkelang , @rothgar , and @nickstatt Tweets: Carl Quintanilla / @carlquintanilla : (Verge) - Google has begun informing prospective job candidat...