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Twitter cutting more than 300 jobs one week after CEO change, no word on Seattle layoffs

Twitter co-founder and newly minted CEO Jack Dorsey announced sweeping layoffs today, as 336 employees, or 8 percent of the… Read More

Groupon cuts 1,100 jobs, ceases operations in seven countries

Groupon is eliminating 1,100 jobs across the company and exiting business operations in seven countries, part of an “ambitious process… Read More

Report: Amazon lays off “dozens” in hardware group as it rethinks Fire Phone

Reports have surfaced once again that Amazon’s secretive 3,000-person R&D outfit based in Silicon Valley is undergoing drastic changes in the wake of the… Read More

Blucora cuts 10% of workforce at InfoSpace unit

Blucora, the Bellevue operator of tax preparation software, e-commerce sites and search engines, is cutting 10 percent of its staff… Read More

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RealNetworks trims staff as repositioning under Rob Glaser continues

RealNetworks has cut nine employees at its Seattle headquarters as the streaming media and gaming company continues to transition under… Read More

Senator from Alabama slams Microsoft for cutting jobs while seeking more foreign tech workers

U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions, a Republican from Alabama, is taking Microsoft to task over its latest round of layoffs — saying that… Read More

Maker of ‘Nancy Drew’ games cuts staff, cites changes in game industry

Her Interactive — the 19-year-old creator of the Nancy Drew game series — has laid off an undisclosed number of… Read More

Chart: Amazon’s headcount rises to 165K as Microsoft’s layoffs take hold

Amazon’s employee base continued its meteoric rise during the beginning of this year, reaching an even 165,000 employees by the… Read More

Heavily-funded maker of eco-friendly plastic cups abruptly closes

MicroGreen Polymers, a clean tech startup that was developing eco-friendly plastic cups, has shut its doors and laid off about… Read More

Seattle startup SNUPI cuts staff, shelves Wally home sensor device

SNUPI Technologies, the Seattle startup led by entrepreneur Jeremy Jaech and University of Washington computer science professor Shwetak Patel, laid… Read More

Health and fitness tracker EveryMove cuts additional staff

EveryMove, which helps employees track fitness metrics and receive rewards for hitting goals, has eliminated a number of non-engineering employees… Read More

Microsoft: Latest layoffs will be ‘last of the broad cuts’ from restructuring

The layoffs quietly made by Microsoft last week will be the “last of the anticipated broad cuts” from the restructuring… Read More

Microsoft quietly cut hundreds of jobs this week

  Microsoft made another round of layoffs this past week, GeekWire has learned. A company representative confirmed the job cuts in… Read More

Seattle cosmetics startup Julep cuts 8% of staff

Julep, the heavily-funded Seattle cosmetics startup led by Jane Park, laid off eight percent of its staff or 17 employees… Read More

Layoffs at acquired Seattle biotech Dendreon begin, state filing reveals

The post-acquisition layoffs have begun at Dendreon, with 77 employees losing their jobs. Assets of Seattle-based Dendreon were purchased out of… Read More

Report: Photography startup Lytro raises $50M, plans layoffs

Lytro, the startup that introduced an innovative light field camera to consumers three years ago, is itself apparently changing focus. Re/code… Read More

Layoffs hit Trulia as Zillow acquisition set to close today

Some employees at Trulia — including staffers at the company’s Market Leader unit in Bellevue — are receiving notice today… Read More

eBay begins layoffs, but spares most of its Seattle-area office

A very small number of employees in eBay’s Seattle-area office have been impacted by a round of layoffs, aiming to eliminate… Read More

EBay confirms it will cut 2,400 jobs; may sell enterprise unit

EBay confirmed it will be laying off about 7 percent of its workforce, or about 2,400 employees, in the next… Read More

EveryMove cuts sales staff, takes new approach with @Work fitness service

Seattle startup EveryMove, which helps employees keep track of fitness metrics and receive rewards for hitting goals, has laid off… Read More

In emotional farewell note, Biznik founder announces closure of 10-year-old business social network

Biznik, which operated a community of small business owners to exchange ideas, resources and referrals, is closing down at the… Read More

NBCNews.com cutting digital news staff

About a year after moving into new digs in Seattle’s tallest skyscraper, NBCNews.com is cutting its digital news workforce substantially… Read More

Microsoft cuts another 3,000 jobs, finishing last big phase of layoffs

Microsoft this morning cut an additional 3,000 jobs from its workforce around the world, saying it has now completed almost all… Read More

Novo Nordisk cutting workforce, focusing efforts on diabetes treatments

Here’s another dose of bad news for Seattle’s biotech industry. Novo Nordisk this week announced plans to discontinue R&D efforts… Read More

Simply Measured

Simply Measured cuts 10% of staff in ‘course correction’ to set up next phase of growth

Seattle social media analytics startup Simply Measured cut 15 employees, or 10 percent of its workforce, as part of a restructuring… Read More

Nathan Myhrvold’s Intellectual Ventures cuts 140 employees from its patent-buying workforce

Intellectual Ventures, the Bellevue, Wash.-based patent holding firm run by former Microsoft technology chief Nathan Myhrvold, has laid off 20… Read More

Chinese protesters reportedly slam Microsoft over ‘hostile takeover and violent layoffs’

Microsoft is facing more pressure in China. Five days after a report surfaced that Chinese officials were investigating Microsoft’s offices… Read More

LightInTheBox streamlines workforce at Ador following acquisition

Ador, the Seattle-based online fashion startup formerly known as Lockerz, has streamlined its staff following an acquisition earlier this year by… Read More

Making sense of the Microsoft cutbacks: Did Satya Nadella go far enough?

The size of the Microsoft layoffs this week — a 14 percent cut equating to about 18,000 positions — surprised… Read More

‘Mini-Microsoft’ resurfaces, urging company to be quick with its job cuts

Mini-Microsoft, the anonymous employee who for years has called for a “lean and mean” Microsoft, has resurfaced with a new post… Read More

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