Articles about layoffs – Page 12 of 13

Seeking a new combination, social commerce startup Lockerz confirms cutbacks

Lockerz, the heavily-funded social commerce startup, has reportedly laid off a chunk of its staff and closed down an office… Read More

Clearwire CEO hints at layoffs, as investor boosts stake to repel ‘unfair’ Sprint acquisition

Clearwire CEO Erik Prusch met with employees this week to reassure them that even though Sprint has offered to buy… Read More

LivingSocial cuts 400 staffers, Seattle office takes a hit

LivingSocial, the Washington D.C.-based daily deals site, has laid off 400 staffers as it aims to turn a profit, a… Read More

Poor earnings leads to Glu layoffs at Kirkland studio

A lowered fourth quarter guidance has sent the stock of San Francisco-based game publisher Glu south and resulted in layoffs… Read More

CityGrid Media cuts staff, but Urbanspoon keeps growing

CityGrid Media, the parent company of Urbanspoon, Insider Pages, Buzz Labs and Citysearch, announced today that it is cutting 15… Read More

Paul Allen-backed news aggregator Evri calls it quits

Evri has met the end of the road. The Seattle startup, backed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, has decided to… Read More

Social media agency Spring Creek Group cuts staff

Nearly a year after it was acquired by Interpublic Group’s Mediabrands unit, Seattle social media agency Spring Creek Group has laid… Read More

PopCap pulls plug on Dublin office, cutting 96 jobs

PopCap Games is cutting back even further, announcing today that it closed its offices in Dublin, Ireland. Ninety-six employees are… Read More

Data I/O reduces staff

Data I/O, a 40-year-old Redmond company that makes device programming and IP management technologies for the wireless, consumer electronics and automotive… Read More

RealNetworks to run divisions as standalone units in possible prelude to bigger moves

RealNetworks plans to start running three of its divisions as standalone business units, saying it wants to make them more… Read More

RealNetworks cuts 80 jobs, more ahead — Glaser says it sucks but he has a plan

RealNetworks is cutting 80 jobs, or 7 percent of its workforce, and plans to eliminate an additional 80 positions in… Read More

PopCap Games cuts 50 staffers as it grapples with ‘completely different world’

Just over a year after Electronic Arts agreed to pay up to $1.3 billion for PopCap Games, the maker of… Read More

Online game maker En Masse Entertaiment cuts staff

En Masse Entertainment, which is developing the online game TERA, has cut staff at its operations in Seattle, according to… Read More

Intelius cuts jobs as Naveen Jain urges company to ‘think like a new startup’

Intelius cut an undisclosed number of employees today as the Bellevue Internet company makes a series of changes in its… Read More

Bellevue data recovery startup Doyenz cuts staff

Bellevue-based Doyenz, which sells a disaster recovery cloud-based service to small and medium-sized businesses, has laid off a number of staffers,… Read More

Microsoft cuts jobs in advertising and marketing

Microsoft this morning confirmed that it has made additional job cuts in advertising and marketing. A Microsoft spokesman says in… Read More

Nokia plans 10k job cuts, 3 top execs depart in shakeup

Nokia this morning announced a major shakeup, acknowledging that “competitive industry dynamics” in the smartphone market are hurting its business more… Read More

Intermec cutting 170 staffers in corporate restructuring

Intermec, an Everett maker of rugged mobile computers and bar coding and RFID technologies, said that it plans to cut… Read More

Running low on cash, Marina Biotech cuts 90% of staff

Marina Biotech, a Bothell biotechnology company, said today that it has cut about 90 percent of its staff and ceased… Read More

T-Mobile USA plans 900 job cuts as ‘rebuilding’ continues

Updated with details on job cuts. T-Mobile USA will be going through another round of job cuts as part of… Read More

Paul Allen’s Vulcan cuts 20 jobs

Vulcan, the Seattle-based investment arm of billionaire and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, today laid off 20 staffers, GeekWire has learned.… Read More

Yahoo job cuts: Back to startup mode for an aging web icon

Yahoo this morning confirmed that it’s cutting 2,000 jobs, or about 15 percent of its workforce — part of an… Read More

Verizon Wireless to close Bellevue call center, tells 850 workers they can relocate elsewhere

Verizon Wireless today announced plans to close its call center operations in Bellevue, a move that will lead to the… Read More

Daily deal site Tippr lays off 25 staffers, restructures sales

Tippr, the daily deal technology services startup led by Seattle entrepreneur Martin Tobias, laid off 25 employees today as part… Read More

AdReady cuts staff

AdReady, the heavily-funded online advertising startup backed by Madrona Venture Group, Bain Capital, Khosla Ventures and others, has cut an… Read More

After purchase by private equity firm, Applied Discovery cuts staff but plans big hiring spree

You may have missed this — as we did. But last month, the New York private equity firm Siris Capital Group… Read More

RealNetworks cuts another 22 jobs in effort to focus business

RealNetworks has cut another 22 jobs, shaving its workforce in an ongoing effort to focus its business. The layoffs were… Read More

Struggling Motricity restructures operations, pulls the plug in Asia

Motricity, the struggling Bellevue maker of mobile software, has restructured its business and decided to close down its operations in… Read More

Report: Microsoft may cut hundreds of jobs as Ballmer looks to restructure marketing

Bloomberg News reports today that Microsoft is considering a restructuring of the company’s marketing efforts, a move that could cost… Read More

Memory Lane, formerly Classmates.com, cuts staff

Memory Lane, the Seattle social networking site formerly known as Classmates.com, has cut an unknown number of jobs at its… Read More