Amazon, Salesforce jettison jobs in latest tech worker purge

Breadcrumb Trail Links PMN Business Author of the article: The Associated Press Michael Liedtke And Michelle Chapman Published Jan 04, 2023  •  3 minute read Join the conversation FILE – In this Thursday, May 16, 2019, file photo, Salesforce chairman Marc Benioff speaks during a news conference, in Indianapolis. Salesforce is laying off about 10% … Read more

British military using illegal spy tech in Ukraine – Grayzone — RT World News

A UK intelligence firm linked to the Crimean Bridge bombing is reportedly deploying the software to plan attacks and killings A private company linked to terrorism in Ukraine is providing the British military with illegally-gathered smartphone data to aid the planning of attacks and targeted killings, The Grayzone reported on Tuesday. According to files leaked … Read more

Alibaba, Chinese tech stocks surge as Beijing boosts Ant Group (NYSE:BABA)

Toa55/iStock via Getty Images Chinese tech stocks flexed their muscles on Wednesday amid signs that Beijing is loosening up a bit on some of its tight regulatory controls over tech companies, in particular. Investors rallied behind the likes of JD.com (NASDAQ:JD), Tencent Holdings (OTCPK:TCEHY) and Alibaba (NYSE:BABA) after Chinese regulators approved a capital expansion plan … Read more

How American spies used false claims of Russian election interference to bring the tech giant to heel — RT World News

Files reveal how the specter of Moscow’s supposed underhand ways was used to subjugate the platform to the US Democratic Party In a pair of blockbuster #TwitterFiles threads, this week, journalist Matt Taibbi has blown open, even wider, the media giant’s concerning collusion with the US national security state. The former Rolling Stone writer exposed … Read more

Health Tech Market Check-Up with Lux Capital’s Deena Shakir – The Health Care Blog

Health Tech By JESSICA DAMASSA, WTF HEALTH Deena Shakir, General Partner at Lux Capital, shares her take on the market state-of-play for healthcare innovation amid these “tumultuous” economic times. As an investor, Deena has been a passionate advocate for women and children’s health and her fund, Lux Capital, invests broadly in health tech – pre-seed … Read more

The harsh reality for investors eyeing tech stocks in 2023

This article first appeared in the Morning Brief. Get the Morning Brief sent directly to your inbox every Monday to Friday by 6:30 a.m. ET. Subscribe Monday, January 2, 2023 Today’s newsletter is by Brian Sozzi, an editor-at-large and anchor at Yahoo Finance. Follow Sozzi on Twitter @BrianSozzi and on LinkedIn. Read this and more … Read more