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Amazon will lay off more than 18,000 workers

Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Business — Thu, 05 Jan 2023 11:00:32 +0000

(CNN) — Amazon says it plans to lay off more than 18,000 employees. Several teams will be affected, including the human resources department and Amazon Stores, according to a statement from CEO Andy Jassy. “Companies that last a long time go through different phases. They’re not in heavy people expansion mode every year,” he said.

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HP says it will lay off up to 6,000 workers over the next couple years

Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Business — Wed, 23 Nov 2022 07:29:03 +0000

(CNN) — HP Inc. announced on Tuesday that it will lay off thousands of workers over the next three years, becoming the latest tech company to significantly downsize staffing amid a souring economic climate. The computer maker disclosed the major job cuts in a statement accompanying its lackluster quarterly earnings report on Tuesday afternoon, where

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Iran’s sweeping internet blackouts are a serious cause for concern

Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Business — Tue, 27 Sep 2022 01:13:31 +0000

(CNN Business) — When Iranian authorities pulled the plug on the internet in 2019 amid anti-government protests, the international community struggled to track the civilian carnage that followed. The people of Iran had taken to the streets to demonstrate after fuel prices surged as much as 300% overnight. The New York Times reported at the time

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Why deleting something from the internet is ‘almost impossible’

Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Business — Mon, 19 Sep 2022 13:30:37 +0000

(CNN) — Most people may live out their digital lives with the assumption they can delete their posts, messages and personal data from services whenever they choose. But a tech hearing this week threw that core assumption into question. Peiter “Mudge” Zatko, the former security chief at Twitter, told a Senate committee on Tuesday that

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Facebook-parent Meta to share more details with researchers about political ad targeting

Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Business — Tue, 24 May 2022 06:29:47 +0000

(CNN) — Facebook-parent Meta on Monday said it would soon offer more transparency and information to researchers about how political and social ads are targeted to users on the platform, months before the US midterm elections. Starting later this month, Meta will provide “detailed targeting information for social issue, electoral or political ads” to “vetted

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