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Garry Tan, who heads up Y Combinator, has since deleted his pretty dark tweet, but the drama was the talk of the town this week.

South Dakota Investment Council acquired a new position in shares of REX American Resources Co. (NYSE:REX – Free Report) during the 3rd quarter, according to its most recent 13F filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The firm acquired 45,521 shares of the energy company’s stock, valued at approximately $1,854,000. South Dakota Investment Council owned […]

Financial companies cut more jobs in January than in any month since September 2018, shedding 23,238 jobs during the first month of the year.

Block, whose subsidiaries include Cash App and Square, is laying off employees, according to an internal memo.

Last year, tech giants like Meta, Amazon, Google, and Microsoft laid off employees and saw their stock prices rise. This year, they are making smaller, targeted job cuts while focusing on key products like AI. Smaller tech startups are also slashing jobs to survive. The layoffs are a correction after years of a booming global economy and near-zero interest rates. Tech executives are now admitting to over-hiring during the pandemic. In the first 30 days of 2024, approximately 100 tech companies h...

After last years widespread layoffs, the largest firms -- including Amazon, Google and Microsoft -- have in recent weeks made smaller, targeted job trims while focusing on fewer projects and shifting resources to key products such as artificial intelligence. Some tech startups -- such as Flexport, Bolt and Brex -- have slashed more deeply to stave off potential extinction. The mandate from the top is the same: Do more with less.

300 people are being laid off around the world, many of them in Israel.

Block Inc., the brainchild of Twitter founder Jack Dorsey, is undergoing a significant downsizing, impacting subsidiaries such as Cash App and Square.

DISH subscribers will have access to 27 more television channels — including KREX — after Mission Broadcasting and DISH Network announced last week they reached a multi-year distribution agreement.

SAN FRANCISCO — Last year, Mark Zuckerberg declared 2023 to be a “year of efficiency.” His company, Meta, soon laid off one-third of its employees. Amazon, Google and Microsoft also cut tens of thousands of workers. Their worlds did not stop. Not only that, the companies were rewarded. Their stock prices soared. Some divisions were