Amazon May Announce Thousands of Corporate Job Cuts Next Week
Laurent Giret / thurrott - Amazon is reportedly preparing to announce thousands of corporate job cuts next week, with the layoffs mostly affecting AWS, retail, and HR units.The post Amazon May Announce Thousands of Corporate Job Cuts Next Week appeared first on Thurrott.com.
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Vimeo lays off most of its staff just months after being bought by private equity firm
Lawrence Bonk / engadget - Vimeo just got hit by a brutal round of layoffs, according to a report by Business Insider. Staffers are posting on various social media sites that the layoffs have impacted most of the company, including the entire video team. Vimeo is a video-hosting pl…
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Your Prince of Persia remake is dead, Ubisoft is reshaping its lineup
digitaltrends - The Prince of Persia Sands of Time Remake canceled news is now official. Ubisoft has confirmed it has discontinued the long-delayed remake, closing the door on a modern take of the 2003 classic after years of setbacks. The cancellation lands inside a broa…
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Meta Cuts 1,500 Reality Labs Jobs as AI Takes Priority
eWEEK Staff / eweek - The cuts represent roughly 10% of the division's workforce and signal Meta's accelerating pivot away from its metaverse ambitions toward AI dominance.The post Meta Cuts 1,500 Reality Labs Jobs as AI Takes Priority appeared first on eWEEK.
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Meta Plans To Cut Around 10% of Employees In Reality Labs Division
BeauHD / slashdot - Meta plans to cut roughly 10% of staff in its Reality Labs division, with layoffs hitting metaverse-focused teams hardest. Reuters reports: The cuts to Reality Labs, which has roughly 15,000 employees, could be announced as soon as Tuesday and are set to …
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Ubisoft is shutting down a studio 16 days after it unionized
Will Shanklin / engadget - Ubisoft is closing a Canadian studio just over two weeks after it unionized. In a dizzying claim, the company told GamesIndustry.biz that the closure of Ubisoft Halifax was part of "company-wide actions to streamline operations" and unrelated to the union…
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Ford takes $19.5 billion charge as it retreats from EVs
Reuters / fastcompany - Ford Motor said on Monday it will take a $19.5 billion writedown and is killing several electric-vehicle models, in the most dramatic example yet of the auto industry’s retreat from battery-powered models in response to the Trump administration’s policies…
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Roomba maker iRobot files for bankruptcy, will go private trib.al/OkO709t
@MarketWatch / x - Roomba maker iRobot files for bankruptcy, will go private trib.al/OkO709t— MarketWatch (@MarketWatch) Dec 15, 2025
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John Giannandrea is Leaving Apple
Paul Thurrott / thurrott - Widely blamed for the problems Apple had adding AI to Siri, AI executive John Giannandrea is leaving the company.The post John Giannandrea is Leaving Apple appeared first on Thurrott.com.
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HP To Cut About 6,000 Jobs By 2028, Ramps Up AI Efforts
BeauHD / slashdot - HP plans to cut 4,000-6,000 jobs by 2028 "as part of a plan to streamline operations and adopt artificial intelligence," reports Reuters. From the report: HP's teams focused on product development, internal operations and customer support will be impacted…
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DOGE Disbands With 8 Months Remaining in Charter
PYMNTS / pymnts - President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was supposed to last until next summer. Instead, the agency has essentially disbanded, Reuters reported Sunday (Nov. 23), bringing a close to a program that was designed to shrink the siz…
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Verizon may cut 15,000 jobs next week
engadget - The Wall Street Journal reported that Verizon plans to cut about 15,000 jobs over the next week. Sources told the publication that Verizon is attempting to reduce costs as it faces more competition for wireless service and home internet customers. At the …
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IBM cutting several thousand jobs in latest layoffs
Thomas Claburn / theregister - Resource Actions expected to hit half of US Infrastructure group IBM this week began notifying several thousand employees that they will be laid off, according to sources familiar with the matter. …
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'Grand Theft Auto' Studio Accused of Union Busting After Firing Dozens
EditorDavid / slashdot - "Rockstar Games fired dozens of employees," reports Bloomberg, "in a move that a British trade union said was designed to prevent the workers from unionizing. The company said they were fired for misconduct."TheGrand Theft Automaker terminatedbetween 30 a…
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GTA VI developer accused of union busting in mass firings
Stevie Bonifield / theverge - Rockstar Games, the developer of Grand Theft Auto VI, fired between 30 to 40 employees on Thursday, as previously reported by Bloomberg. According to the Independent Workers’ Union of Great Britain (IWGB), all of the employees fired were part of a private…
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YouTube announces ‘voluntary exit program’ for US staff
Aisha Malik / techcrunch - YouTube CEO Neal Mohan told employees about the program via an internal memo on Wednesday.
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Chegg replaces CEO and cuts 45% of staff as AI decimates its one-time $12 billion business
techspot - Having started as a digital and physical textbook rental service, Chegg later expanded to offer homework help, tutoring, and study tools. It offers subscription services that cost between $15 and $20 per month.Read Entire Article
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Amazon is cutting 14,000 corporate jobs
Robert Hart / theverge - Amazon is planning to axe around 14,000 corporate jobs. The mass layoffs were expected as part of the company’s cost-cutting drive, but are smaller than the 30,000 job losses previous reports had indicated. Beth Galetti, a senior executive at the e-commer…
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Amazon to Lay Off Tens of Thousands of Corporate Workers
Sean McLain / wsj - The cuts amount to roughly 10% of the online giant’s white-collar workforce.
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Netflix shuts down its Squid Game mobile studio
Jay Peters / theverge - Netflix has shut down Boss Fight Entertainment, the studio behind the mobile game Squid Game: Unleashed, according to posts from staffers on LinkedIn. Netflix acquired Boss Fight in March 2022, with an executive saying at the time that the studio’s “exten…
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