Apple employees at the Apple Store in Short Hills, New Jersey have petitioned to unionize, reports Bloomberg. Retail store unionization efforts have died down in recent months after locations in Oklahoma and Maryland successfully unionized in 2022. There are 104 workers at Apple Short Hills, which is located in the Short Hills Mall. Communication Workers […]
Read MoreApple this week filed a required notice with the state of California, confirming plans to permanently lay off more than 600 employees. Under California law, employers must give employees and state representatives a 60-day notice before a mass layoff event. The employees listed are located in several Apple-occupied buildings around Santa Clara, California, which is […]
Read MoreApple this week filed a required notice with the state of California, confirming plans to permanently lay off more than 600 employees. Under California law, employers must give employees and state representatives a 60-day notice before a mass layoff event. The employees listed are located in several Apple-occupied buildings around Santa Clara, California, which is […]
Read MoreWhat you need to know Microsoft began testing a new version of the Microsoft Store among Canary and Dev Channel Insiders. The updated Microsoft Store loads product pages quicker, shows the buy button after a shorter wait time, and can launch without showing the splash screen in most situations. Microsoft did not list all of […]
Read MoreApple is currently offering its corporate and retail employees 40% off select Link Bracelet and Milanese Loop bands for the Apple Watch. In the U.S., the Link Bracelet is available for $209 on Apple’s online store for employees, down from $349 regularly. The Milanese Loop is available for $59, down from $99. Both bands were […]
Read MoreSamsung has a tradition of offering year-end bonuses to employees across the entire organization to thank them for a job well done. When times have been good for the company, it has given significant incentives to employees to boost their morale. The past year hasn’t been great for the company financially as it suffered a […]
Read MoreMicrosoft is laying off 1,900 employees from Activision Blizzard, Xbox, and Zenimax teams. That’s roughly eight percent of the company’s workforce in the gaming department, which has around 22,000 employees at the moment. The latest news comes right after Microsoft reached $3 trillion market capitalization, becoming the second company, after Apple, to achieve the milestone. […]
Read MoreApple employees will be able to purchase the Vision Pro at a 25 percent discount, which drops the price of the device $3,500 to approximately $2624, not including tax. Employees were told about the discount in a memo that was sent out today, according to Bloomberg. In the past, Apple has offered 50 percent discounts […]
Read MoreGoogle laid off “a few hundred” employees, according to multiple reports. People from multiple divisions were affected, including those working on the Assistant team, as well as some from the Hardware team, responsible for Pixel phones, Nest home devices and Fitbit wearables. According to a text reviewed by The New York Times, employees received the […]
Read MoreApple and Samsung are expected to engage in a competition across a brand-new segment next year. Both companies have been working on mixed reality headsets, and Apple might be the first to release its Vision Pro headset announced earlier this year. A rumor not long ago claimed that Apple may have had to push back […]
Read MoreThe upcoming Galaxy S24 series will be Samsung’s first phone with built-in AI (artificial intelligence) and LLM (Large Language Model) capabilities. Thanks to the implementation of these breakthrough technologies, the Galaxy S24 experience might be so vastly different from regular smartphones that it might call for a new definition. And according to a new report, […]
Read MoreSamsung is going through a tough time, as the semiconductor chip industry is going through its worst phase in the recent past. To improve its business, the South Korean firm is tightening the work discipline of its employees in the Device Solutions business arm. Samsung has also asked employees to report if their colleagues, superiors, […]
Read MoreSpotify CEO Daniel Ek today announced that the company is laying off 17 percent of employees, which equates to more than 1,000 people. Spotify needs to cut costs in an effort to narrow the gap between its current operational costs and financial goal state. Over the last two years, we’ve put significant emphasis on building […]
Read MoreSpotify is the latest tech company that will lay off employees as a cost-cutting measure. According to a public memo from Daniel Ek, co-founder and CEO of the Swedish audio streaming platform, approximately 17% of the workforce will be reduced. A quick calculation based on the latest quarterly report reveals this is about 1,500 of […]
Read MoreWhat you need to know A new study lists Microsoft among the top tech giants that attracts employees from other competitors in the tech world. Meta and Google have the highest percentage of employees that have worked for other tech giants before joining them. The study further disclosed that Microsoft attracted 7,937 employees from IBM, […]
Read MoreWhat you need to know OpenAI could potentially lose more of its employees to Microsoft following the board of directors decision to fire Sam Altman. The employees penned a letter to the board of directors to express their plight and request the to reinstate Altman. They further indicated that the decision undermined their mission and […]
Read MoreWhat you need to know Microsoft announced that it is hiring Sam Altman, ex-CEO of OpenAI. Altman was fired by OpenAI last week after the board said they had lost confidence in his leadership. Altman will be joined by Greg Brockman to lead a new AI research team at Microsoft. Updated November 20, 2023 at […]
Read MoreWhat you need to know According to a new report by CNBC, Microsoft employees were temporarily restricted from accessing ChatGPT. Microsoft stated that it restricted access due to security and privacy concerns. A Microsoft spokesman cites that the block was a mistake and that it occurred while the company was testing endpoint control systems for […]
Read MoreWhat you need to know Microsoft and Amazon are reportedly in the midst of a megadeal summing up to approximately $1 billion. The deal will help Amazon acquire 550,000 Microsoft 365 E5 licenses for its corporate workers, alongside one million Microsoft 365 F5 licenses for its frontline employees. Amazon employees already use traditional, on-premises Microsoft […]
Read MoreNokia, the Finnish company that makes equipment for telecom networks, reported a 20% dip in sales QoQ. And to offset the impact it will let go of 14,000 employees, which is over 15% of the entire workforce. According to the CEO, sales of 5G equipment fell 40% in North America, and other major markets are […]
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