How Seattle, transformed into a tech hub by Amazon and Microsoft's explosive growth, is grappling with the companies' layoffs affecting local economy
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Memo: Meta terminates major DEI programs, including for hiring, training, and procurement, citing a changed “legal and policy landscape” around DEI in the US
Meta is ending its DEI programs Bradley Cortright / New York Sun : Meta Abandons its DEI Programs Days Ahead of Trump's Inauguration Edith Olmsted / New Republic : Mark Zuckerberg Goes Full MAGA With ...
Filing: Satya Nadella was paid $79.1M during the FY ending June 30, up from $48.5M YoY; compensation was reduced by $5M+ due to Microsoft's security issues
while company fired nearly 2,500 workers Derek Strickland / TweakTown : Xbox exclusives are still important for Microsoft and are used to determine ‘growth in gaming’ Heidi Nicholas / TrueAchievements...
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy tells staff to return to the office five days per week from January 2, 2025, citing the importance of the policy to the company's culture
Amazon orders employees back to the office five days a week Michael Grothaus / Fast Company : Amazon CEO Andy Jassy orders employees back to the office 5 days a week in one of the strictest RTO mandat...
A profile of hiking app AllTrails, which exploded during the pandemic, has raised $225M+, and now focuses on helping users “find your outdoors”, not just trails
Fourteen years and one Apple App of the Year award in, AllTrails has become something rare: a tool that works for both experts and newbies. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to . X: @ckopf1 , @alltrails , a...
Techstars is shutting down its Seattle program, which was started in 2010, to shift focus on “hubs with the highest concentration of VC activity”
https://www.geekwire.com/... X: Chon Tang / @chontang : Raise a glass for Techstars 1.0, end of an era. I had a lot of respect for what they built - can't imagine what Techstars is without Seattle or ...
An AWS developer claims Amazon is “silently sacking” staff by pushing them to take a different role that they would quit later, avoiding the need for severance
Amazon has a stock problem. It's not only Amazon, but they have more to lose. If you're a customer, that's going to be bad for your business too. Threads: @alkalinegarrett and @carnage4life Mastodon...
Trucking marketplace Convoy starts shutting down; sources: the startup had ~$320M in 2023 revenue by early October, on pace to fall short of the $630M in 2022
Trucking Startup Backed By Bezos And Gates—Shutting Down After Failing To Find Buyer, Report Says Taylor Soper / GeekWire : Convoy collapse: Read CEO's memo detailing sudden shutdown of Seattle trucki...
Hundreds of white-collar Amazon workers in Seattle walked off the job, frustrated by job losses, a return-to-office mandate, carbon emissions, and leadership
Frustrated by job losses, office policies and rising carbon emissions, white-collar Amazon workers are demanding more from leadership
Meta is vacating a Seattle office and a Bellevue office, and Microsoft doesn't plan to renew a Seattle office lease, amid job cuts and remote work's popularity
and softness in the office market here — Facebook and Microsoft are vacating buildings in Seattle and Bellevue. https://www.seattletimes.com/ ...