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After last year's 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