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Q&A with Netflix co-CEOs Greg Peters and Ted Sarandos about shared leadership, what role Reed Hastings may play, adding FAST channels, the ad tier, and more — So that's what an orderly transfer of power looks like. — While Disney chief Bob Iger ousted every potential threat … | Aaron Tilley / Wall Street Journal: |
How Apple's lean hiring may help it avoid layoffs; Apple's workforce grew 20% from 2019 to 2022, Amazon's grew 100%, Meta 94%, Alphabet 57%, Microsoft 53% — The iPhone maker's workforce grew 20% in the past three years, a far slower pace than rivals — Tech Layoffs Pile Up as Bosses Reverse Course
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| Dietrich Knauth / Reuters: |
US prosecutors provide a list of ~$700M worth of Sam Bankman-Fried's seized assets, including ~$525M in Robinhood stock and $94.5M cash at Silvergate Bank — Federal prosecutors have seized nearly $700 million in assets from FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried in January, largely in the form of Robinhood stock …
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Google cuts most of the Area 120 team and will graduate three of the incubator's projects in 2023; sources: staff not involved in those projects were laid off — Alphabet Inc.'s Google has cut most of the jobs at Area 120, its in-house incubator for new projects, as part of a broad wave of layoffs across the company.
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Emails and sources: Google fired 16% of its ~400-person Fuchsia OS team, Research cut jobs in low traction areas, and Cloud cut operational and other roles — The layoffs amount to about 6 percent of the global work force at the company, the latest tech giant to make cuts after a pandemic hiring spree.
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Filings: Signature Bank borrowed $10B in Q4 from Federal Home Loan Banks, the system originally designed to support mortgage lending; Silvergate borrowed $3.6B — Signature and Silvergate turn to government-chartered lenders after customer withdrawals surge| Lora Kolodny / CNBC: |
Internal records: Twitter now has ~1,300 active employees, including fewer than 550 full-time engineers, and ~1,400 non-working staff who are still being paid — - Internal records show that Twitter has shed about 80% of its employees since Elon Musk took over and headcount is hovering around 1,300 employees today.
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| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
A look at Amazon's fledgling drone delivery unit, which has struggled due to safety concerns and now faces layoffs and other cost-cutting measures — - As part of Amazon's widespread layoffs, some employees in the nascent drone delivery project are losing their jobs, according to people familiar with the matter.
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The main reason ChatGPT is a threat to Google is because the latter's monopoly position allowed search to degenerate into a spam-ridden, SEO-fueled hellscape — I hate monopolies and welcome our AI overlords … I don't really cook often, but I do love making pasta aglio e olio.
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| Jason Del Rey / Vox: |
Current and ex-Amazon managers and executives say the focus on managing costs should've come sooner, ideas aren't being evaluated with the same rigor, and more — After the largest corporate layoffs in its history, the tech giant is at a crossroads. — For years, it seemed as though nothing … | Paresh Dave / Wired: |
Google, Microsoft, and other tech companies have offered a muted response to unrest in Iran, prompting staff side projects to fight internet censorship and more — Companies like Google have offered a muted response to unrest in Iran. Grassroots coders are tackling internet censorship on their own.
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Crypto lender Genesis Global files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in New York, listing the estimated range for both assets and liabilities as between $1B and $10B — Cryptocurrency lender Genesis Global Capital filed for bankruptcy, the latest firm to collapse in the aftermath of FTX's swift downfall.
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