Twitter removes legacy blue ticks; Google asks apps to use its billing system outside IndiaFrom Pope Francis, with his modest 18.8 million followers, to Justin Bieber, with 113 million, several celebrities and other notable person...
21 Apr, 2023, 07.18 PM IST
Facebook-parent Meta fires 10,000 more employees in fresh round of layoffs: reportThe fresh layoff is in addition to the 11,000 employees or 13% of its global workforce Meta had sacked in November last year in a bid to cu...
15 Mar, 2023, 12.35 PM IST
Twitter fixes links outage that hit thousands of usersTwitter's support account tweeted later on Monday that the issue was resolved and "things should be working as normal."
07 Mar, 2023, 08.46 AM IST
Alphabet’s robotaxi venture Waymo lays off 8% workforce: reportIncluding the latest job cuts, the division has let go of 8% of its workforce, or 209 employees, this year.
02 Mar, 2023, 07.39 AM IST
Ticketing service provider Eventbrite to lay off 8% of workforce, relocate roles to India, SpainEventbrite joined a growing list of tech firms that have resorted to mass layoffs amid global economic downturn and recessionary fears. Eve...
01 Mar, 2023, 01.27 PM IST
Twitter lays off another 200 employees in fresh round of job cuts: reportAccording to the report, the job cuts took place Saturday night and impacted product managers, data scientists and engineers who worked on ...
27 Feb, 2023, 11.41 AM IST
Facebook-parent Meta planning fresh layoffs, to impact thousands: reportIn a statement shared with Meta employees, co-founder and chief executive officer Mark Zuckerberg had said going ahead, the company would m...
24 Feb, 2023, 12.02 PM IST
Online fashion retailer Zalando to lay off hundreds of employeesIn its last quarterly earnings report in November, Zalando said it expected full-year revenues and operating profit to reach the lower end ...
21 Feb, 2023, 05.05 PM IST
Telecom gear maker Ericsson to lay off 1,400 employees in SwedenThe company had earlier announced plans to cut costs by 9 billion crowns ($880 million) by the end of 2023 as demand slows in some markets,...
20 Feb, 2023, 04.48 PM IST
Twitter lays off more employees from sales team: reportThe number of job cuts is not known. The social media company had about 800 sales and marketing employees as of last month.
20 Feb, 2023, 04.06 PM IST
San Francisco gets emptier amid wave of layoffs, Elon Musk finds it 'tragic'San Francisco has been among the slowest US markets to rebound from the pandemic as tech companies did not open their offices and promoted ...
19 Feb, 2023, 10.41 AM IST
Byju’s cuts another 1,000 jobs; ‘year of efficiency’ at Meta, says Mark ZuckerbergTroubled edtech firm Byju’s, in a fresh round of layoffs, has fired another 1,000 employees. This and more in today’s ETtech Top 5
02 Feb, 2023, 08.24 PM IST
Meta now 'rescinds' full-time job offers amid recession fearsAs layoffs deepen in New Year, Meta (formerly Facebook) has reportedly rescinded full-time employment offers to some people, which is a fir...
10 Jan, 2023, 06.50 PM IST
ETtech layoff tracker: job cuts continue as thousands fired in first week of 2023Big tech firms such as Meta, Twitter, Amazon, Alphabet, and Microsoft announced en masse layoffs last year citing 'global uncertainty, dwin...
06 Jan, 2023, 07.12 PM IST
Big tech layoffs may further disrupt equity and diversity effortsSurging firings by technology companies last year are disproportionately affecting women and mid-career talent which may make it more diffi...
06 Jan, 2023, 10.41 AM IST
Tech layoffs surpass Great Recession levels, set to get worse in early 2023In 2008, tech companies laid off about 65,000 employees, and a similar number of workers lost their livelihoods in 2009. By comparison, 965...
21 Dec, 2022, 01.30 PM IST
Google plans to layoff 10,000 employees after performance review: reportGoogle could soon layoff 6% of its workforce, accounting to about 10,000 people, according to a report by The Information.
23 Nov, 2022, 04.27 PM IST