Memo: Microsoft plans to lay off 10,000 employees through March 31, reducing its headcount by less than 5%, and take a $1.2B charge tied to severance and more
Yesterday, Microsoft announced it would be the latest tech … Esther Shein / TechRepublic : Microsoft will lay off 10,000 employees Ana Kessler / 80 Level : Microsoft Is Laying Off ...
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says the layoffs will continue into 2023, after the company cut roles across its Devices and Books businesses on Wednesday
KEY POINTS — Amazon will continue to lay off employees in the coming year, CEO Andy Jassy wrote in a memo to workers on Thursday.
Internal doc: Amazon has a high attrition rate across all levels, costing $8B annually, and workers choose to leave twice as often as layoffs and firings occur
Amazon churns through workers at an astonishing rate, well above industry averages. According to a tranche of documents marked …
California's AG files an antitrust lawsuit against Amazon, focusing on the company allegedly penalizing sellers who list products at lower prices on other sites
inflating prices across the web isn't exactly customer-obsessed. https://twitter.com/... Stacy Mitchell / @stacyfmitchell : 8/8. Here's the filing itself. Lots of damning quotes an...
Amazon says its 2021 carbon footprint rose 18% YoY and 40% from 2019 to ~71.54M metric tons of CO2 equivalent, despite its plans to be “net zero carbon” by 2040
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Amazon documents show it will restrict items and search results related to LGBTQ people and issues in the UAE, after the Emirati government threatened penalties
Sales of items including flags and books were blocked in the country, where homosexuality is criminalized. — Give this article- - - Read in app
Amazon names Doug Herrington, a 17-year company veteran, as its new CEO of Worldwide Amazon Stores, weeks after predecessor Dave Clark announced his resignation
Internal memo: two of Amazon's top Black executives, SVP of logistics warehouses Alicia Boler Davis and VP of transportation services Dave Bozeman, are leaving
Two of Amazon.com Inc.'s top Black executives are leaving amid a management shakeup as Chief Executive Officer Andy Jassy puts …
Workers at Amazon's Staten Island facility secure enough votes to unionize, by a 2,654 to 2,131 margin, a first for an Amazon warehouse in the US
- Amazon workers at a Staten Island warehouse voted Friday to join a union, the first time that's happened at one of the company's U.S. facilities.
Tech Transparency Project: between 2019-2021, Apple filed 215 trademark oppositions vs. an estimated 136 filed by Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook, Google combined
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Amazon's strategy in Washington has won it few friends as scrutiny from lawmakers increases; sources say DC-based Amazon execs have left after feeling alienated
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Amazon stops letting customers in Russia and Belarus open AWS accounts; AWS says its biggest customers in Russia are multinational firms with local dev teams
Amazon's Cybersecurity Assistance for Ukraine - https://www.aboutamazon.com/ ... “As this conflict continues, #AWS and Amazon are actively assisting and will carry on doing so into...
Lumen becomes the second US backbone internet provider to exit Russia, after Cogent; Russia's remaining international data sources are in Sweden, Italy, and UK
Lumen, a leading American Internet provider to Russia, announced Tuesday that it was severing business relations in the country …
Amazon stops letting customers in Russia and Belarus open AWS accounts; AWS says its biggest customers in Russia are multinational firms with local dev teams
Amazon's Cybersecurity Assistance for Ukraine - https://www.aboutamazon.com/ ... “As this conflict continues, #AWS and Amazon are actively assisting and will carry on doing so into...
Lumen becomes the second US backbone internet provider to exit Russia, after Cogent; Russia's remaining international data sources are in Sweden, Italy, and UK
Lumen, a leading American Internet provider to Russia, announced Tuesday that it was severing business relations in the country …
Amazon reaches a nationwide settlement with the NLRB to let its warehouse employees more easily organize, likely affecting over 1M current and former workers
likely more than 1 million people — with notifications of their organizing rights. By @KYWeise https://www.nytimes.com/... Pui-Wing Tam / @puiwingtam : In a year of push-pull betwe...
Amazon reaches a nationwide settlement with the NLRB to let its warehouse employees more easily organize, likely affecting over 1M current and former workers
The agreement's national scope and its concessions to organizing go further than any previous settlement that the e-commerce giant has made.
Some Amazon sellers are backdating books to fool Amazon's algorithms into changing where they appear, often allowing the sellers to charge exorbitant prices
David Streitfeld / New York Times :
Google is aggressively pursuing a major cloud computing and AI contract with the Pentagon, three years after employee outcry ended similar work on Project Maven
& we will win again. https://www.nytimes.com/... @alphabetworkers : Our working conditions include our ethical concerns. Workers should have full transparency on the real world imp...
Zillow says it is shutting down its home buying business, laying off ~2,000 employees, and taking a write down of $500M+; stock drops 10%+
Zillow Group's ambitious tech-fueled bid to shake up how people buy and sell homes is coming to a surprising end. — The Seattle online real estate giant …