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Annapurna Interactive Hit With Mass Resignations, Leaving Partners Scrambling
Annapurna Interactive President Nathan Gary and his team had been negotiating with Ellison, the daughter of billionaire Larry Ellison, to spin off the video-game division as an independent entity. When Ellison pulled out of the negotiations, Gary and other executives resigned and were followed by around two dozen other staffers.
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Sweden, Iran Exchange Prisoners In Breakthrough Deal
Sweden and Iran carried out a prisoner exchange on Saturday, officials said, with Sweden freeing a former Iranian official convicted for his role in a mass execution in the 1980s while Iran released two Swedes being held there.
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Iraq's Sinjar Remains In Ruins Even A Decade After ISIS Horrors
The area near the Syrian border still bears the scars of the fighting in 2014- it was here that the jihadists committed some of their worst atrocities, including mass executions and sexual slavery, before being dislodged by Kurdish forces
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Star Wars: The Old Republic MMO Switches Studios as BioWare Shifts Focus to Dragon Age, Mass Effect
Star Wars: The Old Republic, the long-running space-set MMORPG, is switching studios from BioWare to a third-party developer. Broadsword Online Games, best known for classic MMOs Ultima Online and Dark Age of Camelot, will soon take over development, with some of the BioWare staff being brought over. EA will remain as the game’s publisher while B...
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8-Year-Old, 4 Others Shot "Almost Execution Style" In US' Texas: Cops
Police were searching for a gunman believed to have shot dead five Hondurans including an eight-year-old child at a house in Texas, the local sheriff said Saturday, in the latest mass shooting to hit the United States.
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Facebook Parent Meta to Lay Off 10,000 Employees Just Four Months After First Round of Job Cuts
Facebook-parent Meta Platforms said on Tuesday it would cut 10,000 jobs, just four months after it let go 11,000 employees, the first Big Tech company to announce a second round of mass layoffs. "We expect to reduce our team size by around 10,000 people and to close around 5,000 additional open roles that we haven’t yet hired," Chief Executive Of...
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Apple Could Report Its First Decline in Quarterly Revenue in Nearly 4 Years, Say Analysts
Apple is expected to report its first decline in quarterly revenue in nearly four years after strict COVID-19 curbs in China rapped the economy and related protests upended iPhone production at its biggest supplier Foxconn. Investors will look for details on how Chief Executive Tim Cook is trying to bolster demand in a weak economy that has prompt...
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Zomato Announces 800 Vacancies Across 5 Areas Amid Mass Layoffs
While tech giants are laying off employees around the globe, Zomato's Chief Executive Officer Deepinder Goyal has shared about 800 job opening at the firm across five areas.
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Microsoft Organised Private Sting Concert At Davos Before Announcing Mass Layoffs: Report
Microsoft executives attended a private concert by Sting at the World Economic Forum in Davos, a day before the company announced mass layoffs.
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Amazon's Media Chief Jeff Blackburn Announces Plans to Retire in 2023
Amazon.com's top media executive Jeff Blackburn plans to retire at the start of 2023, the e-commerce giant said on Friday. The company said that the media and entertainment businesses, led by Blackburn since May last year, will be overseen by two current executives, Mike Hopkins and Steve Boom, who will report directly to Chief Executive Officer An...
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Twitter's France Head Serves Resignation Amid Mass Layoffs, Tweets Exit Message
Twitter's head of French operations, Damien Viel, said he was quitting the social media platform, whose new owner Elon Musk recently fired top executives and enforced steep job cuts at the company. "It's over," Viel tweeted on Sunday, thanking his team in France, which he led for the last seven years.
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"It's Over": Twitter France's Head Quits Amid Mass Layoffs
Twitter Inc's head of French operations, Damien Viel, said he was quitting the social media platform, whose new owner Elon Musk recently fired top executives and enforced steep job cuts at the company.
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Elon Musk Celebrates 'All-Time High' in Twitter Usage Amid Engineer Exodus
Elon Musk said on Friday that Twitter hit an all-time high in usage, hours after reports that the company was seeing a mass exodus of engineers. Uncertainty now hangs over Twitter’s ability to continue normal operations after the company dismissed its executive team and laid off half the workforce in Musk’s first few days in charge.
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Twitter Manager Vomited After Elon Musk Told Him To Fire Employees: Report
The report describes the details of the mass lay-offs, Mr Musk's decision of transforming the company and the new product deadlines.
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Twitter Job Cuts: What Are Digital Layoffs and What Do They Mean for Employees and Companies?
Twitter's recent job cuts that saw the company fire nearly half of its workforce after Elon Musk took over, have been scrutinised globally. The firm's approach to mass layoffs resembles strategies adopted by a growing number of companies in recent years. If you face redundancy – whether digitally or face to face – it’s important to know your ...
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Annapurna Interactive Hit With Mass Resignations, Leaving Partners Scrambling
Annapurna Interactive President Nathan Gary and his team had been negotiating with Ellison, the daughter of billionaire Larry Ellison, to spin off the video-game division as an independent entity. When Ellison pulled out of the negotiations, Gary and other executives resigned and were followed by around two dozen other staffers.
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Sweden, Iran Exchange Prisoners In Breakthrough Deal
Sweden and Iran carried out a prisoner exchange on Saturday, officials said, with Sweden freeing a former Iranian official convicted for his role in a mass execution in the 1980s while Iran released two Swedes being held there.
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Iraq's Sinjar Remains In Ruins Even A Decade After ISIS Horrors
The area near the Syrian border still bears the scars of the fighting in 2014- it was here that the jihadists committed some of their worst atrocities, including mass executions and sexual slavery, before being dislodged by Kurdish forces
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Star Wars: The Old Republic MMO Switches Studios as BioWare Shifts Focus to Dragon Age, Mass Effect
Star Wars: The Old Republic, the long-running space-set MMORPG, is switching studios from BioWare to a third-party developer. Broadsword Online Games, best known for classic MMOs Ultima Online and Dark Age of Camelot, will soon take over development, with some of the BioWare staff being brought over. EA will remain as the game’s publisher while B...
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8-Year-Old, 4 Others Shot "Almost Execution Style" In US' Texas: Cops
Police were searching for a gunman believed to have shot dead five Hondurans including an eight-year-old child at a house in Texas, the local sheriff said Saturday, in the latest mass shooting to hit the United States.
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Facebook Parent Meta to Lay Off 10,000 Employees Just Four Months After First Round of Job Cuts
Facebook-parent Meta Platforms said on Tuesday it would cut 10,000 jobs, just four months after it let go 11,000 employees, the first Big Tech company to announce a second round of mass layoffs. "We expect to reduce our team size by around 10,000 people and to close around 5,000 additional open roles that we haven’t yet hired," Chief Executive Of...
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Apple Could Report Its First Decline in Quarterly Revenue in Nearly 4 Years, Say Analysts
Apple is expected to report its first decline in quarterly revenue in nearly four years after strict COVID-19 curbs in China rapped the economy and related protests upended iPhone production at its biggest supplier Foxconn. Investors will look for details on how Chief Executive Tim Cook is trying to bolster demand in a weak economy that has prompt...
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Zomato Announces 800 Vacancies Across 5 Areas Amid Mass Layoffs
While tech giants are laying off employees around the globe, Zomato's Chief Executive Officer Deepinder Goyal has shared about 800 job opening at the firm across five areas.
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Microsoft Organised Private Sting Concert At Davos Before Announcing Mass Layoffs: Report
Microsoft executives attended a private concert by Sting at the World Economic Forum in Davos, a day before the company announced mass layoffs.
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Amazon's Media Chief Jeff Blackburn Announces Plans to Retire in 2023
Amazon.com's top media executive Jeff Blackburn plans to retire at the start of 2023, the e-commerce giant said on Friday. The company said that the media and entertainment businesses, led by Blackburn since May last year, will be overseen by two current executives, Mike Hopkins and Steve Boom, who will report directly to Chief Executive Officer An...
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Twitter's France Head Serves Resignation Amid Mass Layoffs, Tweets Exit Message
Twitter's head of French operations, Damien Viel, said he was quitting the social media platform, whose new owner Elon Musk recently fired top executives and enforced steep job cuts at the company. "It's over," Viel tweeted on Sunday, thanking his team in France, which he led for the last seven years.
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"It's Over": Twitter France's Head Quits Amid Mass Layoffs
Twitter Inc's head of French operations, Damien Viel, said he was quitting the social media platform, whose new owner Elon Musk recently fired top executives and enforced steep job cuts at the company.
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Elon Musk Celebrates 'All-Time High' in Twitter Usage Amid Engineer Exodus
Elon Musk said on Friday that Twitter hit an all-time high in usage, hours after reports that the company was seeing a mass exodus of engineers. Uncertainty now hangs over Twitter’s ability to continue normal operations after the company dismissed its executive team and laid off half the workforce in Musk’s first few days in charge.
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Twitter Manager Vomited After Elon Musk Told Him To Fire Employees: Report
The report describes the details of the mass lay-offs, Mr Musk's decision of transforming the company and the new product deadlines.
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Twitter Job Cuts: What Are Digital Layoffs and What Do They Mean for Employees and Companies?
Twitter's recent job cuts that saw the company fire nearly half of its workforce after Elon Musk took over, have been scrutinised globally. The firm's approach to mass layoffs resembles strategies adopted by a growing number of companies in recent years. If you face redundancy – whether digitally or face to face – it’s important to know your ...
