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Tech layoffs: TikTok, Riot Games and Brex cut hundreds of jobs: In a fresh round of tech layoffs, AI-powered expense management company Brex ...
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Tech layoffs: TikTok, Riot Games and Brex cut hundreds of jobs
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Brex, the fintech giant valued at $12.3 billion, announced it will lay off 20% of its staff
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Brex, the fintech giant valued at $12.3 billion, announced it will lay off ...
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Brex, once a Silicon Valley darling, is laying off 20% of its workforce: Even working at a decacorn doesn't protect you from losing your job
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Brex, once a Silicon Valley darling, is laying off 20% of its workforce
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Tech layoffs: TikTok, Riot Games and Brex cut hundreds of jobs: In a fresh round of tech layoffs, AI-powered expense management company Brex ...
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Tech layoffs: TikTok, Riot Games and Brex cut hundreds of jobs
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Brex, the fintech giant valued at $12.3 billion, announced it will lay off 20% of its staff
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Brex, the fintech giant valued at $12.3 billion, announced it will lay off ...
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Brex, once a Silicon Valley darling, is laying off 20% of its workforce: Even working at a decacorn doesn't protect you from losing your job
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Brex, once a Silicon Valley darling, is laying off 20% of its workforce
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Brex cuts jobs as its customers endure economic pressure: The digital financial services firm announced layoffs Tuesday, with the goal of keeping the company ...
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Brex cuts jobs as its customers endure economic pressure
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Google terminates 28 employees for protest of Israeli cloud contract: Google said on Thursday it had terminated 28 employees after some staff participated in ...
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Google terminates 28 employees for protest of Israeli cloud contract
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Google has fired 50 employees after protests over Israel cloud deal, organizers say
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Quick Glance: Google dismisses workers following protests on technology deal with Israeli government
  • Following protests regarding the technology supplied to the Israeli government, Google has terminated employees, heightening tensions around a sensitive contract.

  • The confirmed dismissals by Google on Wednesday occurred after nine individuals were detained during sit-in demonstrations in New York and Sunnyvale, California, a day subsequent to police intervention.

  • Demonstrations are predominantly coordinated by a faction known as No Tech For Apartheid. Google states that Nimbus is not utilized for weaponry or intelligence purposes.

  • Stated in a blog post, Google's CEO Sundar Pichai implied a close supervision of employees as the company enhances efforts in advancing its AI technology, marking a crucial phase in the industry and potentially humanity.
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Google fires 28 employees for protesting Israel cloud deal: Google has fired more than two dozen employees who protested this week against the company’s cloud ...
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Google fires 28 employees for protesting Israel cloud deal
Quick Glance: Google terminates 28 employees after office occupation due to anti-Israel protests
  • Google terminated 28 employees on Thursday who had occupied its offices to protest against contracts with the Israeli government, as confirmed by a Google spokesperson.

  • The protesters were arrested and after refusing to leave the office of Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian in Sunnyvale or the workspace in New York City for nearly 10 hours, they were transferred to administrative positions to urge Google to terminate the Project Nimbus contract and cease business with the Israeli government.

  • No Tech For Apartheid, a project by Jewish Voice for Peace and Linda Sarsour’s MPower Change, described the terminations as an "indiscriminate act of mass retaliation."

  • The office occupations at Google were accompanied by demonstrations on-site and in Seattle, aiming to compel Google to withdraw from the project to establish cloud-based data centers and transition a significant portion of the Israeli government's IT infrastructure to cloud-based servers.
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Google lays off employees, shifts some roles abroad amid cost cuts: Alphabet-owned Google is laying off an unspecified number of employees, a company ...
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Google lays off employees, shifts some roles abroad amid cost cuts
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Fact check: Donald Trump attacks Jimmy Kimmel for something Al Pacino did: On Tuesday, late-night television host Jimmy Kimmel delivered another monologue making ...
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Fact check: Donald Trump attacks Jimmy Kimmel for something Al Pacino did
Quick Glance: Trump Mixes Up Jimmy Kimmel and Al Pacino in Rant
  • Former President Donald Trump recently mixed up Jimmy Kimmel and actor Al Pacino in a bizarre rant on social media about Kimmel's hosting of the 2024 Academy Awards.

  • Trump claims Kimmel experienced a 'classic blackout' at the Oscars and forgot to say the famous mandatory line 'AND THE WINNER IS.'

  • Kimmel responded to Trump's mix-up with a humorous comment, referencing Trump's self-proclaimed status as a 'very stable genius' in 2018.

  • Trump's rant about Kimmel seems to be in response to his monologue on 'Jimmy Kimmel Live' discussing Trump's declining wealth and hush money trial.
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What was in wave of Iranian attacks and how were they thwarted?: Israel says 99% percent of projectiles fired at it by Iran overnight were intercepted by it and ...
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What was in wave of Iranian attacks and how were they thwarted?
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Google's Gaza conflict: Why more bosses are cracking down on Israel-Hamas war protesters
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Google's Gaza conflict: Why more bosses are cracking down on Israel-Hamas ...
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Take-Two laying off 550 people, weeks after saying it had "no current plans" to do so
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Take-Two laying off 550 people, weeks after saying it had
Quick Glance: 'GTA 6' Publisher Makes Layoffs and Cancels Projects
  • Publisher Take-Two Interactive, known for Grand Theft Auto IV, plans to lay off five percent of its workforce by the end of the year and cancel various projects currently in development.

  • These decisions were disclosed in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday, outlining briefly Take-Two's 'cost reduction program.' The company anticipates the plan to save $165 million annually and 'enhance the Company’s margin profile.'

  • Several video games in development, including GTA 6, are expected to break sales records upon release next year.

  • Even though CEO Strauss Zelnick explicitly stated in February that the company had no plans for job cuts, layoffs are distressing even in the best of times. The impact of these measures on Take-Two's development teams remains to be seen.
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Google Fires 20 More Workers Following Protests Against the Tech Giant's Israel Deal
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Google Fires 20 More Workers Following Protests Against the Tech ...
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Mumbai Police investigating former Zilingo CEO’s charges of harassment: After a prolonged boardroom drama which included Bose being fired as the company's ...
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Mumbai Police investigating former Zilingo CEO’s charges of harassment
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Take-Two Announces Layoffs While Canceling Multiple In-Development Projects - IGN
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Google fired people for protesting. Is that legal?: Google has fired workers over protests of its cloud computing contract with Israel. There are few protections ...
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Google fired people for protesting. Is that legal?
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Supreme Court considers Starbucks’ challenge to labor board’s authority : Starbucks argues that the Supreme Court should raise the bar federal judges use to ...
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Supreme Court considers Starbucks’ challenge to labor board’s authority
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AI Was A Factor For Some Of Our Layoffs, But Not All: Duolingo - Forbes India: The popular language learning app recently laid off almost 10 percent of its ...
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Time To "Reorganise": Elon Musk After Tesla Logs 9% Drop In Revenue: Elon Musk on Wednesday said it is time to "reorganise" Tesla as the ...
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Time To "Reorganise": Elon Musk After Tesla Logs 9% Drop In ...
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Google fires 28 workers in aftermath of protests over big tech deal with Israeli government
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Quick Glance: Google restructuring operations and relocating roles to 'hubs' to fund AI investments
  • Google is implementing staff layoffs and transferring certain roles to 'hubs' to secure funds for artificial intelligence investments.

  • The finance and real estate teams are being affected by the downsizing, with some roles being moved overseas.

  • Through the consolidation of finance teams in Bangalore, Mexico City, Dublin, Chicago, and Atlanta, Google aims to enhance efficiency and operate around the clock.

  • The restructuring is driven by the substantial shift towards artificial intelligence in the tech industry, prompting Google to allocate more resources to this domain.
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Google fires employees who protested Israel contract: Google fired 28 employees Wednesday who protested the tech giant’s cloud computing contract with the ...
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Google fires employees who protested Israel contract
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Rivian cuts more jobs as it looks to trim expenses: Electric vehicle upstart Rivian, which recently put on pause plans to build a Georgia factory ...
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Rivian cuts more jobs as it looks to trim expenses
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Tech layoffs: Google and Rivian both cut jobs: Nearly 75,000 tech employees have lost their jobs so far this year.
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Tech layoffs: Google and Rivian both cut jobs
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Marni Jameson: Get richer living with less — tips to lighten up: Home and Lifestyle author Marni Jameson talks about how to get richer living with less and ...
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Marni Jameson: Get richer living with less — tips to lighten up
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New York Post cuts newsroom staff in “restructuring”: The internal memo did not specify a number, but CNN reported that about a dozen staffers had been laid off ...
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New York Post cuts newsroom staff in “restructuring”
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US Workers Laid Off Multiple Times Face Self-Doubt in Tough Job Market: More than a year of ongoing cuts has left some workers out of a job more than once ...
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US Workers Laid Off Multiple Times Face Self-Doubt in Tough Job Market
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Layoff whiplash scars workers who find new jobs only to lose them: Unlike previous cycles, when employers might do one big layoff, lately employers have done ...
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Layoff whiplash scars workers who find new jobs only to lose them
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Rachel Riley says she’s ‘sorry’ if racist Sydney attack Twitter post was ‘misunderstood’
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Rachel Riley says she’s ‘sorry’ if racist Sydney attack Twitter post was ...
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Despite mass firings, Kaseya CEO sees growth in Miami tech sector: Miami-based tech company Kaseya recently fired 150 workers. Weeks later, CEO Fred Voccola ...
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Despite mass firings, Kaseya CEO sees growth in Miami tech sector
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She was fired after not endorsing Splenda-filled salads to people with diabetes. Why?
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She was fired after not endorsing Splenda-filled salads to people with ...
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Gina Carano Bashes Disney For Attempting To Have Her Lawsuit Dismissed: "They Will Fire You If You Say Anything They Disagree With"
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Microsoft L&D Director terminated after 3 decades at company: 'My job elimination was result of...' | Mint
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Ex-Oculus exec regrets not defending Palmer Luckey: John Carmack said he regrets not coming to Oculus founder Palmer Luckey's defense when he was fired from ...
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Ex-Oculus exec regrets not defending Palmer Luckey
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Mark Zuckerberg wins dismissal in lawsuits that sought to hold him personally liable for social media addiction
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Mark Zuckerberg wins dismissal in lawsuits that sought to hold him ...
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Best Buy's Geek Squad Hit With Massive Layoffs: One laid-off employee said he hadn't been scheduled for 40 hours a week since last year.
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Best Buy's Geek Squad Hit With Massive Layoffs
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Man shooting from atop Marina del Rey apartment building is in custody, authorities say
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Man shooting from atop Marina del Rey apartment building is in custody ...
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Content creation holds appeal for laid-off workers seeking flexibility: Rather than trying to return to traditional employment, however, people like 26-year-old ...
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Content creation holds appeal for laid-off workers seeking flexibility
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San Antonio's USAA lays off another 220 employees: The big insurance and financial services company declined to say which departments were hit or how many of the ...
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San Antonio's USAA lays off another 220 employees
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US and British military aircraft have downed some Iranian drones over the Iraq-Syria border areas, Israel’s Channel 12 reports.
Iran targets Israel with ballistic missiles, drones in response to Syria attack: Iran said Saturday that it had fired dozens of ballistic missiles and drones at ...
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Iran targets Israel with ballistic missiles, drones in response to Syria ...