Neowin News Feed for: Offices

Google buys Central Saint Giles London offices for $1 billion

Paul Hill — Fri, 14 Jan 2022 16:04:02 +0000

Google has purchased the Central Saint Giles development where its London headquarters are based for $1 billion. It is part of wider investments that the company is making in the UK. Read more...

Amazon plans 10,000 Bellevue jobs in the coming years

Paul Hill — Fri, 04 Sep 2020 16:38:02 +0000

Amazon has announced that it plans to offer 10,000 new jobs in Bellevue in the coming years. This will be made possible thanks to additional office space that is under construction. Read more...

Facebook's King's Cross office to boost capacity to 6,000 employees

Paul Hill — Mon, 23 Jul 2018 16:50:04 +0000

Facebook has announced plans to expand its operations in London's King's Cross. After the proposed buildings go up, the firm will be able to host 6,000 employees. They should be built by 2021. Read more...

SoundCloud is cutting 40% of its staff, will close San Francisco and London offices

Stergios Georgopoulos — Thu, 06 Jul 2017 18:34:02 +0000

SoundCloud, a music streaming service based on user-submitted content, is laying off 40% of its employees and consolidating the rest in its London and New York offices in order to reduce costs. Read more...

Facebook's offices in Germany vandalised

Jack Wilkinson — Tue, 15 Dec 2015 04:12:01 +0000

Facebook's offices in Hamburg, Germany have become the victim of vandals, with paint sprayed on the walls and smashed glass at the entrance to the social network's building. Read more...

AOL to cut over 1000 jobs and shut offices

Matthew Hopson — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 14:55:18 +0000

AOL is to shut down many of its European offices after failing to cut a third of its international workforce through voluntary redundancy. Although 1,100 of the company's staff have taken voluntary redundancy, a further... Read more...

EarthLink to Cut 900 Jobs and Close Four Offices

Tue, 28 Aug 2007 22:50:14 +0000

Internet service provider Earthlink announced today that it will cut more than 900 jobs and close four offices in an effort to reduce operating costs. The company will also repurchase $200 million of its stock... Read more...

Antitrust Regulators Raid Intel Offices

Tue, 12 Jul 2005 16:39:57 +0000

Thanks to forum member jerry for also posting in Neowin's BPN European antitrust lawyers raided Intel offices across Europe merely two weeks after its chief rival, Advanced Micro Devices, filed a multi-billion... Read more...

Acclaim Closes Offices

Fri, 27 Aug 2004 22:31:49 +0000

Bankruptcy almost certain as several studios close and employees told to go home. Following Monday's announcement of a waning loan extension and a possible bankruptcy filing, IGN has learned that Acclaim Entertainment... Read more...

S. Korean Microsoft offices searched

Thu, 10 Jun 2004 19:56:25 +0000

Later today South Korean regulators searched the offices of Microsoft's S. Korean office. The reason behind the search was to investigate allegations that Microsoft violated trade regulations by tying its IM software to its... Read more...

Interplay offices closed by state officials

Sat, 05 Jun 2004 23:58:42 +0000

The Orange County Register reports that California labor investigators have shut down the publisher--something CEO Herve Caen disputes. Less than a day after CEO Herve Caen said Interplay was "still here," the... Read more...

Intel offices raided in Japan on bad biz concerns

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 08 Apr 2004 10:29:35 +0000

Intel's Japan offices have been raided by the country's Fair Trade Commission (FTC) as part of an investigation into whether or not Intel engaged in unfair business practices, El Reg has confirmed. Barbara Grimes, an... Read more...

Microsoft's Tokyo offices raided

Thu, 26 Feb 2004 09:36:37 +0000

Officials from Japan's fair trade watchdog have raided Microsoft's Tokyo offices on suspicion that the US giant violated Japanese anti-monopoly laws. A Microsoft spokeswoman confirmed that the Fair Trade Commission had inspected the... Read more...

Record industry raids Kazaa offices

Fri, 06 Feb 2004 11:24:57 +0000

The Australian record industry raided the offices of music internet group Kazaa as part of legal action aimed at shutting down the popular site. Kazaa is the world's largest file sharing network, and is owned... Read more...

Brazil to Install 4,000 Web Kiosks at Post Offices

Wed, 07 Nov 2001 11:56:03 +0000

Brazil plans to set up 4,000 Internet "kiosks" in the country's post offices next year that will offer 10 minutes of free Web access to Brazilians looking to check their taxes or e-mail their congressman.... Read more...