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Layoffs begin at Amazon as tech giant cuts corporate and tech workers

Layoffs began Tuesday at Amazon as the Seattle tech giant moved to slash potentially thousands of corporate and tech personnel from its ranks.

Amazon to cut around 10,000 corporate and tech jobs, making largest layoffs in its history

Amazon will become the latest technology company to make massive job cuts, laying off approximately 10,000 people in its corporate and technology workforce, according to a New York Times report this morning.

When Mark Zuckerberg met Seattle: Facebook, Meta, and a turning point for Silicon Valley

The year was 2011, Facebook was serving a mere 600 million users, and Mark Zuckerberg was making his pitch to a crowd of prospective hires inside the company’s fledgling office near Pike Place Market — explaining why the social network had chosen Seattle for its first remote engineering hub.

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Boeing-built X-37B space plane lands after completing record 908-day orbital mission

The U.S. Space Force’s Boeing-built X-37B space plane today completed yet another record-setting mission, landing like an airplane at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida 908 days after it was launched.

More tech layoffs hit Seattle region as mobile marketplace OfferUp cuts 19% of workforce

Bellevue, Wash.-based mobile marketplace operator OfferUp is laying off about 19% of its staff, joining a growing list of tech companies slashing costs amid a shaky economy.

Filing: Facebook parent Meta to cut 726 jobs in Seattle region as part of broader layoffs

Meta, parent company of Facebook, Oculus, WhatsApp, and Instagram, will lay off 419 workers in Seattle and another 307 in nearby Bellevue as part of its broader cutbacks announced last week.

Amazon devices chief Dave Limp addresses layoffs in memo to employees

As Amazon has started the process of laying off employees from its corporate and tech workforce this week, one senior executive appears to be among the first to address the cuts publicly.

CNBC’s Jim Cramer pitches John Legere as Twitter CEO, and Elon Musk offers his blunt take on that

Former T-Mobile CEO John Legere certainly spent a good amount of time on Twitter when he was running the Bellevue, Wash.-based wireless carrier.

Jeff Bezos says he will give away most of his fortune

Jeff Bezos will be giving away most of his fortune.

Seattle data analytics startup MotherDuck emerges from stealth, reveals $47.5M in funding

MotherDuck is peeking its head above water.

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