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Blizzard Developer Quits in Protest For Being Asked to Downgrade Staff Reviews!
Putting all the stuff regarding Microsoft’s (now very shaky) proposed takeover of Activision/Blizzard to one side, for Blizzard specifically it’s impossible to ignore the fact that the last couple of years have been pretty rough. And not just in terms of gaming titles, but also their public relations. – You…
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Amazon and Google to Both Cut Jobs as Tech Crunch Bites!
With a general global recession and consumers showing more than a little apathy to making new purchases at the moment, it’s hardly surprising that many tech firms haven’t just confirmed relatively poor Q3 financial results, but are also looking to either scale down or find other means of boosting profitability.…
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Intel Confirm Staff Redundancies and Tech Cancellations After Q3 Profit Dive!
Coming a little ahead of the usual schedule, earlier this month Intel formally confirmed their Q3 financial results, and, overall, the numbers were not good. – And just to clarify, when a company reveals its quarter figures early, this is typically a sign that things haven’t gone too well. Showing…
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Intel Considering Major Job Cuts Due to Huge Drop in Year-on-Year Revenue
2021 proved to be an excellent year for PC tech companies for various reasons. It seems abundantly clear, however, that while 2022 is still going to be a financially strong year, it’s not going to be anywhere near close to being as good. – A factor highlighted just earlier this…
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Activision/Blizzard Expected to Confirm Even More Job Cuts!
Literally, just over a week ago, Activision/Blizzard confirmed that around 50 jobs had been cut. Predominantly focusing on staff involved in eSports or live-video presentations, this was clearly disappointing and saddening news for those involved. It should be noted though that despite this not being received well by the community…
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Amazon Plan Hundreds Of Jobs Cut Despite Massive Profits
Amazon Set to Axe Hundreds of Jobs Despite it being a difficult time for some companies, one which has seen a continued rise is Amazon. Despite this, however, things are not looking too good for employees of the company. In a report via the BBC, despite growing profits, Amazon is…
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Intel Q1 Results Revealed – 12,000 Job Cuts Planned
Three days ago, word came out from Intel about a series of massive layoffs in the works. Today, Intel has officially revealed just how deep the cuts are going to be and they are deep. Around 11% of their global workforce of nearly 107,000 workers will be let go in either…
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Toshiba Doubles Layoffs to Over 14000 Positions
The past few years haven’t been good for Japanese conglomerates and the it appears things are getting even worse at Toshiba. After a massive accounting scandal popped up last year, the Japanese firm ended up losing a massive $4.5 billion USD for the 2015 fiscal year. That led to planned…
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Apple to Lay off Beats Employees after Recent Acquisition
Well it looks like Apple are going to be laying off staff at Beats as soon as the deal goes through. Apple recently purchased Beats for $3 billion, which is Apples biggest ever purchase. The company is looking to lay off 200 staff from areas that overlap both Apple and…
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