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Karen Weise

@kyweise
72 posts
2023-01-19
Rough Seattle morning: Microsoft announces 10,000 layoffs, and Amazon execs have emailed staff that some of its 18K layoffs are being notified today. Not all those layoffs are in Seattle of course, but these are two of the largest employers in the region https://www.nytimes.com/...
2023-01-19 View on X
GeekWire

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 ...

2022-11-18
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy emailed staff about the layoffs, saying they will be rolling and could go into next year as the planning process unfolds. He calls this “the most difficult decision” in his time as CEO so far. https://www.aboutamazon.com/ ...
2022-11-18 View on X
CNBC

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.

2022-10-18
“Of leaders hired in 2021, 39 percent ‘are university graduates with little to no work nor people leadership experience,’ while only four percent of warehouse process assistants, a low-level leadership role, were promoted to area managers.” https://twitter.com/...
2022-10-18 View on X
Engadget

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 …

2022-09-15
NEWS: CA AG @AGRobBonta filed an antitrust lawsuit against Amazon this morning, saying the company's policies inflate prices across online retailers and make it harder for other retailers to compete https://www.nytimes.com/...
2022-09-15 View on X
New York Times

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...

2022-08-02
Amazon's carbon emissions are up 40% since 2019 as its growth outpaces is ambitions to be “net zero” by 2040 It's “carbon intensity” fell 2 percent last year, meaning its operating a bit more efficiently. via @mattmday https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2022-08-02 View on X
Bloomberg

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

Matt Day / Bloomberg :

2022-06-30
NEWS: Amazon moved to restrict LGBTQ items & search results on its website in UAE after receiving pressure from the government there, documents show Blocked items include “transgender flags” & “lgbtq iphone case,” and books, such as @rgay's “Bad Feminist” https://www.nytimes.com/...
2022-06-30 View on X
New York Times

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

2022-06-22
The Dave Clark backfill... Doug Harrington promoted to CEO of the retail business ("WW Amazon Stores"), with ops consolidated under John Felton https://www.aboutamazon.com/ ...
2022-06-22 View on X
The Verge

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

The Dave Clark backfill... Doug Harrington promoted to CEO of the retail business ("WW Amazon Stores"), with ops consolidated under John Felton https://www.aboutamazon.com/ ...
2022-06-22 View on X
Bloomberg

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 …

2022-04-02
Here's Amazon's comment, via an unsigned statement on its corporate blog https://www.aboutamazon.com/ ...
2022-04-02 View on X
CNBC

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.

2022-03-12
“It's an African American witch doctor talking about fictional fantasy and monsters and ghouls,” Ms. Brown said. “No way anyone has ever affiliated me with Apple.” Read @RMac18 & @Kellen_Browning on Apple's litigious approach to policing its trademark https://www.nytimes.com/...
2022-03-12 View on X
New York Times

Tech Transparency Project: between 2019-2021, Apple filed 215 trademark oppositions vs. an estimated 136 filed by Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook, Google combined

New York Times :

In 2019, Amazon's “most senior executives, including Mr. Bezos, began discussing sensitive business matters, including antitrust, over the Signal encrypted-messaging program instead of email.” via @DanaMattioli https://www.wsj.com/...
2022-03-12 View on X
Wall Street Journal

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

Dana Mattioli / Wall Street Journal :

2022-03-09
They just posted an update on their blog (after I asked them for comment on our reporting but before we published.) https://www.aboutamazon.com/ ...
2022-03-09 View on X
New York Times

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...

Amazon stopped accepting new AWS cloud computing customers in Russia and Belarus over the weekend, per internal communication... In a statement Amazon cited “the current events and the uncertainty and lack of credit available in Russia right now” https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2022-03-09 View on X
Washington Post

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 stopped accepting new AWS cloud computing customers in Russia and Belarus over the weekend, per internal communication... In a statement Amazon cited “the current events and the uncertainty and lack of credit available in Russia right now” https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2022-03-09 View on X
New York Times

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...

They just posted an update on their blog (after I asked them for comment on our reporting but before we published.) https://www.aboutamazon.com/ ...
2022-03-09 View on X
Washington Post

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 …

2021-12-25
NEWS: Amazon has reached a nationwide settlement with the NLRB over worker rights that would reach one of the largest groups of workers in NLRB history https://www.nytimes.com/...
2021-12-25 View on X
New York Times

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...

2021-12-24
NEWS: Amazon has reached a nationwide settlement with the NLRB over worker rights that would reach one of the largest groups of workers in NLRB history https://www.nytimes.com/...
2021-12-24 View on X
New York Times

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.

2021-12-06
Great @DavidStreitfeld look at Amazon's “paradox of plenty: The more things there are to buy, the more difficult it is to find the right thing among the plethora of ads and competition, new material and secondhand, quality and garbage.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
2021-12-06 View on X
New York Times

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 :

2021-11-04
Google backed out of the original JEDI cloud computing contract amid employee pressures over AI ethics, but now wants in on its reincarnation... https://twitter.com/...
2021-11-04 View on X
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...

2021-11-03
Oh my. Zillow is shutting down its home flipping business and will layoff a quarter of its staff because its algorithms were too inaccurate Via @pat_clark https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2021-11-03 View on X
GeekWire

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 …