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U.S. layoffs surged in January as tech slashed thousands of jobs - report

Layoffs in the United States hit a more than two-year high in January as technology firms cut jobs at the second-highest pace on record to brace for a possible recession, a report showed on Thursday.

Reuters

Tech giants broke their spending records on lobbying last year

Amazon.com Inc., Apple Inc. and Microsoft Corp. broke their lobbying spending records last year as they fended off heightened scrutiny of their business models and power over the U.S. economy.

Tribune News Service

Brian Merchant: How Big Tech is using mass layoffs to bring workers to heel

In Silicon Valley, the new year began as the last one ended — with tens of thousands of tech workers losing their jobs. Just a few days into 2023, Amazon Chief Executive Andrew Jassy announced that there would be 18,000 layoffs across the company. Within weeks, Microsoft revealed it was…

Los Angeles Times

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Xbox Series S and X prices rise in Japan — is the UK next?

We approach Xbox’s representatives for an update after the brand’s main man Phil Spencer hinted at price increases last year

Evening Standard

Amazon illegally resisted NYC union drive, Labor Board judge says

Amazon.com Inc. violated federal labor law as part of its efforts to resist unionization at two facilities in New York City, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled in a case that tees up major potential changes to board precedent.

Tribune News Service

Amazon to trim 100 tech jobs in San Diego as part of corporate headcount reduction

Amazon is cutting 100 technology jobs and other positions in San Diego as part of a company-wide downsizing announced earlier this month.

Tribune News Service

Google let Daily Wire advertise on ‘climate change is a hoax’ searches

Exclusive: Data shared by Center for Countering Digital Hate shows Ben Shapiro’s site bought ads on climate crisis denial search terms

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Editorial: We’re feeling lucky: Google antitrust lawsuit can set precedent for tech monopolies

It’s not every day that the federal government and states as varied as Tennessee and New York find themselves on the same side of a legal dispute, but these were joined by New Jersey, Virginia, Colorado, California, Rhode Island and Connecticut yesterday in filing suit against Google parent company Alphabet…

Tribune News Service

First UK industrial action against Amazon is ‘making an impact’, says GMB

Managers said to be covering for striking staff, though firm insists action has not disrupted activity

The Guardian - UK

DOJ Antitrust Suit Seeks To End Google Ad Dominance. The Market Is Already Taking Care of That.

Plus: Journalism versus qualified immunity, Mississippi bill would end civil asset forfeiture, and more...

Reason

Thousands of workers in Ireland unable to access Microsoft services like Outlook and Teams

Users worldwide were reporting major issues with standard services and the Microsoft store, Xbox Live and with certain games like Minecraft

Irish Mirror

Amazon strikes: Will I still get my parcels and be able to access Prime?

Amazon warehouse workers are striking in the UK for the first time today (Wednesday, January 25)

Bristol Post

Why are Amazon workers striking and will it affect deliveries?

Amazon workers ‘make history’ with their first ever strike - but why are they striking?

Evening Standard

Microsoft Teams and Outlook down for thousands as servers hit with outage

The website Downdetector has reported thousands of problems with Microsoft services this morning.

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Asharq Al-Awsat

Microsoft Probes Teams, Outlook Outage as Thousands of Users Report Disruption

Microsoft Corp said on Wednesday it was investigating a networking issue that impacted multiple services including Teams and Outlook, with outage reports saying the platforms were down for thousands of users globally. Microsoft did not disclose the number of users affected by the disruption, but data from outage tracking website…

Manchester Evening News

Microsoft statement as Outlook and Teams down for thousands across globe

Microsoft users have reported issues

Evening Standard

Microsoft Teams and Outlook down for thousands of users

There were also issues reported with Microsoft 365 and the Microsoft store

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Microsoft Teams and Outlook down for thousands of users in major outage

Microsoft said it is currently investigating issues impacting multiple Microsoft 365 services

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The National (Scotland)

Is Microsoft down? Why Teams and Outlook aren't loading

Users of Microsoft 365 services including Teams and Outlook have reported the service is down.

Wales Online

Outlook, Microsoft 365, XBox Live and Microsoft Teams have gone down

Microsoft says it is investigating

Evening Standard

Amazon workers walk out in UK first for company’s staff

Members of the GMB at the firm’s fulfilment centre in Coventry voted to walk out in a dispute over pay.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Microsoft Quarterly Results Saved by Cloud Computing

Microsoft on Tuesday said sales slowed and profits slumped in the last quarter of 2022 as a darkening economic outlook pushed it to lay off 10,000 workers. The Washington state-based tech giant -- owner of LinkedIn, Xbox and Windows -- said overall sales rose just two percent in the October-to-December…

Wales Online

Amazon workers walk out on strike for first time ever in the UK

It is in protest against a pay rise that union leaders say is worth 50p an hour

Birmingham Post

Amazon workers stage first ever UK strike

Union urges company to 'do right thing' as Amazon says it is proud to offer competitive pay

Tribune News Service

Microsoft's profit drops, but cloud computing drives growth

A slump in PC demand coupled with a stagnating devices business and post-COVID gaming slowdown cut into Microsoft's revenue and profit, but its cloud computing unit drove growth, according to the company's second-quarter results released Tuesday.

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