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Until Dawn remake studio Ballistic Moon faces layoffs ahead of October release

Omer Dursun — Sun, 01 Sep 2024 16:10:01 +0000

Until Dawn remake developer Ballistic Moon has seemingly laid off an unknown number of employees months ahead of the game's October release on PS5 and PC. Read more...

Microsoft nearly fired engineer who added Windows Zip support, but it's a tricky situation

Sayan Sen — Sat, 20 Apr 2024 14:16:02 +0000

A former Microsoft veteran engineer who had worked on multiple major Windows components and features recently shared a story relating to Zip support. Today, more back story about it was shared. Read more...

Apple lays off more than 600 California-based workers

Paul Hill — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 04:50:01 +0000

Apple is laying off 614 employees who were believed to have been working in California on self-driving car project. The affected employees were informed on March 28 and they will depart on May 27. Read more...

ByteDance finds four employees had accessed US journalists' TikTok data; fires them

Hemant Saxena — Fri, 23 Dec 2022 08:06:01 +0000

An internal report from ByteDance reveals it has fired four employees for inappropriately accessing TikTok data of 2 U.S. journalists in an attempt to track down the source of information leaks. Read more...

Elon Musk officially takes over Twitter, sacks CEO Parag Agrawal and CFO Ned Segal

Karthik Mudaliar — Fri, 28 Oct 2022 06:24:01 +0000

Elon Musk has officially acquired Twitter before the Friday deadline. He also sacked CEO Parag Agrawal and CFO Ned Segal, as well as legal head Vijaya Gadde after his takeover on Thursday. Read more...

Germany fires cybersecurity chief because of close ties to Russia

Usama Jawad — Wed, 19 Oct 2022 13:34:01 +0000

Germany has sacked its chief of cybersecurity after media allegations that the executive has close ties to a Russian firm with links to president Vladimir Putin. An investigation is underway. Read more...

Apple vice president leaves company following crude remarks in viral TikTok

Usama Jawad — Fri, 30 Sep 2022 08:20:01 +0000

Apple has let go of one of its vice presidents following the discovery of a viral TikTok video in which the executive makes some vulgar remarks. The VP was a key player in Apple's senior team. Read more...

Microsoft brings "hard news" of layoff to MLX team that works on consumer products

Sayan Sen — Wed, 10 Aug 2022 11:16:02 +0000

Microsoft has apparently laid off staff in its Modern Life Experiences or MLX division. The division was responsible for helping in researching and developing consumer-focused projects and products. Read more...

Gotta catch 'em all, LAPD cops fired for ignoring robbery call to hunt Snorlax instead

Sayan Sen — Tue, 11 Jan 2022 04:46:01 +0000

Two LAPD police officers were fired from the job in 2017 as available video evidence pointed towards them ignoring a robbery in progress call and instead, going hunting for a Snorlax in Pokémon Go. Read more...

Huawei fires executive recently charged with espionage in Poland

Paul Hill — Sat, 12 Jan 2019 16:16:01 +0000

Huawei has announced that it has fired an employee that was arrested on Friday on espionage charges. The firm said it wants to distance itself from the individual and his alleged crimes. Read more...

IBM denies report of impending massive layoffs [Update]

Vlad Dudau — Mon, 26 Jan 2015 13:08:01 +0000

IBM will go through the biggest shake-up in corporate history, with the company set to lay off a record number of employees. More than 100,000 people around the world will be affected. Read more...

Nike fires Fuelband team, announces it will stop making wearable technology [Update]

Jett Goldsmith — Sat, 19 Apr 2014 02:10:22 +0000

Nike has reportedly fired the majority of its Fuelband activity tracker team, and announced that it will shut down any future wearable technology programs. Read more...

More information on fired Bing team members revealed

John Callaham — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 02:15:34 +0000

More information has been revealed on why two members of Microsoft's Bing marketing team were fired from the company last week, including word of an unauthorized first class airline ticket. Read more...

Two Microsoft Bing team members fired for misusing assets

John Callaham — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 20:47:19 +0000

Two members of Microsoft's Bing marketing team have been dismissed by the company after Microsoft said that they were responsible for "mismanagement of company assets and vendor procurement." Read more...

Fired Windows Phone evangelist sails into Google territory

Denis Wong — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 01:40:54 +0000

A couple of months ago, Windows Phone evangelist Joe Marini lost his job at Microsoft for accidentally leaking details about what is now the Nokia Lumia 800. Today, he's working at Google. Read more...

AMD to lay off 1,400 workers, blames PC industry slowdown [Update: Senior Execs too]

Owen Williams — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 20:54:50 +0000

AMD is moving to fire over a thousand workers at a time that the PC industry is slowing down. The company blames a weak market, and is laying off 12% of it's workforce. Read more...

Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz fired over the phone

Tom Dwyer — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 00:09:36 +0000

CEO Carol Bartz was today told by the board -- over the phone -- that she has been fired. Yahoo have not yet decided on an official replacement. Read more...

Civil servant fired for googling 'knockers'

Michael Collado — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 02:27:27 +0000

A civil servant in Australia was fired last week when he took to Google and searched for "knockers" while using his work laptop at home. "Knockers" is vernacular for women's breasts in different parts of... Read more...

Digg VP of Engineering fired after version 4 troubles

Alan Cone — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 21:48:58 +0000

With the launch of Digg 4, many users were not thrilled to say the least with the changes and bugs that arose after the upgrade. Digg users went as far as sabotaging the front page... Read more...

DSGi employees caught insulting customers on Facebook

Sam Alderwick — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 18:38:13 +0000

According to articles by the BBC and PC Pro yesterday, employees from Dixons Store Group International (DSGi) reportedly labelled their customers "stupid", amongst other things, in an unofficial Facebook group set up for DSGi staff.... Read more...

Chairman of the MPAA to be thrown out of office

Sam Symons — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 03:54:37 +0000

It's fairly common knowledge that the MPAA isn't the most popular organization in the world. The current chairman, Dan Glickman, is being removed from office in 18 months time. Why? Because of a lacking performance,... Read more...

Two fired for not becoming Scientologists

Andrew Lyle — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 08:29:15 +0000

The former CIO at Diskeeper has filed a lawsuit claiming that his work forced him to take Scientology training courses, in order to keep his job at Diskeeper. Alexander Godelman and Marc Le Shay... Read more...

41 Employees Fired For Porn Surfing

Sat, 26 Jan 2008 11:00:39 +0000

Washington DC - 41 Washington DC workers have been fired or suspended after they accessed thousands of porn sites on city computers. Nine employees were fired while the other 32 were suspended. Both male and... Read more...

Fired for a bad game review?

Sat, 01 Dec 2007 13:36:16 +0000

A SENIOR HACK working for the C|Net affiliated gamer's website Gamespot apparently has been fired for panning a game marketed by a major advertiser. Reportedly Gamespot Editorial Director Jeff Gerstmann was summarily fired because game... Read more...

Sony Employee Fired for Comparing PS3 to Xbox 360

Fri, 03 Feb 2006 16:49:45 +0000

A former employee of Sony Online Entertainment has spoken out about how an online article criticising the PlayStation 3 ended up getting him fired from the company. In an interview with... Read more...

Blogger Fired, Sparks Online Fiasco

Wed, 09 Feb 2005 19:51:45 +0000

A variety of news outlets are reporting the departure of Mark Jen from Google. Jen, previously a member of the Adsense team, left Google earlier this month; a Spokesperson for the company confirmed the... Read more...

AOL must pay $1.5 million to fired Netscape executive

Darren Bolton — Wed, 05 Jun 2002 08:54:46 +0000

A Santa Clara County jury Tuesday ordered America Online to pay about $1.5 million to a former top executive with its Netscape Communications division, after finding the company damaged his reputation when it fired him... Read more...