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☆ Tesla sends out another wave of layoff notices as employees enter 4th week of job cuts
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-06 | by ( Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The company sent out another round of layoff notices on Sunday night, according to impacted workers who posted about the cuts on social media. The latest round of cuts mean that employees at the company are entering their fourth straight week of layoff notices. At least seven Tesla workers took to LinkedIn to say they'd received layoff notices on Sunday. "After watching my team gradually slimmed down week after week since mid-April, I received the dreaded 'Hello Employee' email this Sunday afternoon," one Tesla worker wrote on LinkedIn. Another worker shared a screenshot of her layoff email on LinkedIn that showed her last day of work would be May 5.

Persons: —, Elon Musk, they'd, Tesla, Elon, Musk, Tesla's, Drew Baglino, Rohan Patel, Patel, TechCrunch he'd Organizations: Service, LinkedIn, Business, Workers, BI, TechCrunch Locations: California, Texas

☆ Malaysia's $100 billion ghost town really wants to draw in tourists. It's not working.
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-25 | by ( Marielle Descalsota | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Forest City, a luxury development in Malaysia, is banking on tourism to shed its ghost town image. AdvertisementWendy Noble lives 15 minutes away from Malaysia's Forest City, across the border in Singapore. Country Garden, the largest developer in China, spent $100 billion building Forest City. "Forest City is able to attract the weekend tourists," Adilah said, referring to tourists like Noble and Nemis. Forest City Golf Resort's lobby, with a miniature figure of the development.

Persons: it's, —, Wendy Noble, Ree Nemis, Noble, Marielle, Nemis, Adilah Zain, Adilah, Sultan Ibrahim, Shawn, Gary, We've, Chandran Organizations: Forest City, Service, Malaysia's, MARA Technological University, Garden, Bloomberg, BI, Forest, Challenge, Hotel Locations: Forest, Malaysia, Malaysia's Forest City, Singapore, Forest City, China, Johor —, Malaysian, Monaco, Challenge Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur

☆ Alphabet's Verily lays off employees working in one of its science groups
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-22 | by ( Hugh Langley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Verily, the life sciences group owned by Alphabet, laid off staff this week as part of a restructuring in its molecular sciences group, Business Insider has learned. Verily spokesperson Steven Cooper confirmed the cuts in an email to BI, stating that the affected employees worked on Verily's Immune Profiler project, which studies the human immune system for improving disease management. He declined to share the exact number of employees cut, but one source familiar with the situation said 35-40 people were affected. Verily is in the process of separating from Alphabet's infrastructure, part of a project named Flywheel that BI first reported on in 2021. It has set the end of 2024 as the deadline for detachment, a person familiar with the project told BI.

Persons: Verily, Steven Cooper, Cooper, Stephen Gillett, Andy Conrad, Amy Abernethy, Stat, Myoung Cha Organizations: Business, Apple Health

☆ Why young men are 'starvemaxxing' to look like their chiseled, masculine idols
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-17 | by ( Rachel Hosie | Lindsay Dodgson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +14 min

But the 32-year-old, who has 2.1 million Instagram followers, had no idea he’d come to be idolized by a subset of teenage boys and young men known as looksmaxxers . Advertisement“Hardmaxxing,” meanwhile, includes “more extreme ways of going about the way you look,” Shami said, such as getting fillers, botox, and plastic surgery, which he denies having. Young men are becoming more body-consciousIt’s unclear why looksmaxxing has suddenly become popular. The rise of looksmaxxing and starvemaxxing could reflect how such concerns are on the rise among young men, too. All the while, lost young men are left to work out what’s real and what’s trolling.

Persons: chiseled jawline, Francisco Lachowski, Jordan Barrett, Brad Pitt, ” Lachowski, TikTok influencers, Looksmaxxing, Kareem Shami, looksmaxxing, —, “, ”, ” Shami, TikTok, Shami, Starvemaxxing, Starvemaxxing isn't, ” Kareem Shami, Clare Thornton, Wood, Elizabeth Daniels, Johan Drumev, Drumev, ” Johan Drumev, Johan Drumev Lachowski, it’s, Young, Daniels, gaunt, ” Thornton, Lachowski Organizations: Business, BI, TikTok, British Nutrition Foundation, Pediatric, University of the, University College London Locations: looksmaxxing, Brazil, Brazilian, San Diego, England, Dubai

☆ Google cofounder Larry Page quietly bought a Puerto Rico island for $32 million, records show
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-01 | by ( Hugh Langley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

The Google cofounder purchased Cayo Norte, a large private island in Puerto Rico, in 2018, according to documents reviewed by Business Insider. Cayo Norte sits about 20 nautical miles east of Puerto Rico and just northeast of Culebra, another island that forms an archipelago. Cayo Norte is known for its white sandy beaches, surrounding coral reefs, and preserving a refuge for endangered sea turtles. Google cofounder Larry Page bought Cayo Norte, an island in Puerto Rico. Page purchased the Lollik islands, which sit 23 miles east of Cayo Norte, in 2014 for $23 million, BI previously reported.

Persons: —, Larry Page, Page, Lucinda Southworth, Cristina Rosado, Southworth, Dan Shelley, Hugh Langley, Shelley, Louis Padrón, Richard Gautier, Wayne Osborne, Great Hans Lollik, Hans Lollik, Osborne, Lucinda Southworth C, Mary Ann Lucking, Lucking, Sergey Brin, Kimberly White, Sundar Pichai, Brin, Kitty Hawk Organizations: Service, Google, Business, Virgin Island Properties, US Virgin, BI, LLC, Area, Cayo Norte, SVI Investments, Virgin Islands Locations: Cayo Norte, Puerto Rico, Caribbean, US, Puerto Rico's Fajardo, Cayo, Culebra, SVI, Padrón, Virgin, Great, Conservation, Kimberly White Cayo

☆ India is blocking TikTok's owner from offering music streaming as the company looks to build a Spotify competitor
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-15 | by ( Dan Whateley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

TikTok's owner is shuttering its music app Resso in India in response to government orders. The move comes as TikTok is rolling out a separate music app in five countries. AdvertisementTikTok's parent company ByteDance is shutting down its music-streaming app Resso in India at the end of this month, a company spokesperson confirmed to Business Insider. The app blends some of the social features of TikTok with music streaming. The company hasn't announced plans to roll out TikTok Music in India.

Persons: TikTok, —, Resso, hasn't, ByteDance, SiriusXM, Paul Hourican, Moneycontrol Organizations: Service, Business, Apple, Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, US, BI Locations: India, China, Brazil, Indonesia, Australia, Mexico, Singapore, Mesa , Arizona

☆ Silicon Valley engineers joked you'd go to LinkedIn to retire. Then came the PIPs and layoffs.
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-12 | by ( Jyoti Mann | Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +12 min

"For years, there was a semi-joke that some people in Big Tech go to LinkedIn to retire," a current engineer told BI. Amid a transformative year for the social network, LinkedIn spokesperson Nicole Leverich said the company has continued to prioritize its employees. The golden days of growthSome LinkedIn workers like to reminisce about what one engineer called the "golden days." AdvertisementLinkedIn rates its workers on a scale of one to five, seven workers told BI. AdvertisementA current engineering manager added that the goalposts for performance reviews had shifted.

Persons: —, Satya Nadella, we've, It's, Nicole Leverich, Leverich, you'd, Mohak Shroff, ChatGPT, We're, Ryan Roslansky, Kelly Sullivan, he'd, hadn't, Roslanksy, Brian Wieser Organizations: Service, LinkedIn, Business, BI, Microsoft, Big Tech, Google Locations: Big, Madison

☆ At VMware, 'change' and 'uncertainty' loom after its $69 billion acquisition by Broadcom, which left customers on edge
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-02 | by ( Rosalie Chan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

Under Broadcom, VMware will operate in four divisions, Broadcom CEO Hock Tan told employees last week in an email. Competitors swoop inNow that Broadcom has acquired VMware, competitors, and partners see a big opportunity to win over VMware customers. VMware customers had already been concerned that Broadcom ownership may hurt innovation and cause a talent exodus , while VMware slowed down customer deals, BI previously reported. He said he has heard from VMware customers that they're "really concerned" and that Broadcom is "confirming the worst fears" customers have about the acquisition. VMware layoffsBroadcom conducted layoffs of VMware employees on Monday.

Persons: It's, it's, Hock Tan, Hock, Nutanix, Rajiv Ramaswami, they've, Ramaswami, Bryan Cantrill, Cantrill, they'll, what's, Tan, he'll, Hock E, Tan Lucas Jackson, Raghu Raghuram Organizations: Broadcom, VMware, Business, EMC, Dell, Employees, BI, Oxide Computer Company, San Francisco Chronicle, Symantec, CA Technologies Locations: China, Dell, India, Latin America

☆ Broadcom CEO Hock Tan plans to consolidate teams at VMware: 'I don't need two sales organizations'
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-30 | by ( Rosalie Chan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Broadcom CEO Hock Tan plans to consolidate some teams at VMware following his blockbuster acquisition of the cloud software provider. He said Broadcom plans to consolidate offices and teams at VMware, particularly those in sales, HR, and finance, according to a recording of the meeting reviewed by Business Insider. "Broadcom has a software group that sells to many of the same customers VMware sells to," Tan said at the meeting. Already, Broadcom has started laying off VMware employees, BI first reported. Besides consolidating teams and laying off employees, Broadcom is looking into strategic alternatives for its End-User Computing and Carbon Black units, Tan said in an email last week.

Persons: Hock Tan, Tan Organizations: Broadcom, VMware, Business, San Francisco Bay Area, San Francisco Chronicle Locations: San Francisco Bay, Palo Alto

☆ Broadcom CEO tells VMware employees that it doesn't do company-wide parties or employee-resource groups: 'That's an alien concept to me'
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-30 | by ( Rosalie Chan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

On Tuesday, Broadcom CEO Hock Tan addressed questions from VMware employees in an all-hands meeting. Some employees asked about company culture perks such as employee-resource groups and company-wide parties – both of which Tan said Broadcom doesn't do, according to a recording of the meeting viewed by Business Insider. Tan added that Broadcom doesn't have those groups although it doesn't mean the company shouldn't and that it could learn from them. He said Broadcom doesn't do celebrations on a company-wide basis, but each division can choose to have celebratory or team-building events if they want. Broadcom laid off VMware employees on Monday.

Persons: Hock Tan, Tan Organizations: Broadcom, VMware, Business, Broadcom doesn't

☆ Leaked all-hands: Broadcom CEO tells employees living within 50 miles of an office to 'get your butt in here'
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-30 | by ( Rosalie Chan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Hock Tan, the CEO of Broadcom, said in an all-hands meeting Tuesday that he expects employees living within 50 miles of an office to return to in-person work. One submitted question was: "What can you tell me about headquarters, office locations, and remote work?" "Any other exception, you better learn how to walk on water if you want to work remote," Tan said at the meeting. Broadcom laid off some VMware employees earlier this week, BI first reported. Before the acquisition closing, Tan was already telling VMware employees that he expected them to return to the office.

Persons: Hock Tan, Tan Organizations: Broadcom, VMware, Business Locations: Palo Alto , California, Palo Alto

☆ Leaked email: Broadcom CEO says the company is reviewing 'strategic alternatives' for two of VMware's businesses
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-29 | by ( Rosalie Chan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Broadcom CEO Hock Tan told employees he's reviewing strategic alternatives for two parts of VMware following the acquisition of the cloud software company. Most recently, VMware president Sumit Dhawan became CEO of cybersecurity company Proofpoint. I am very pleased to welcome VMware employees to Broadcom and bring together our engineering-first, innovation-centric teams. We will also continue to support VMware's End-User Computing, led by Shankar Iyer, VP and General Manager, and Carbon Black, led by Jason Rolleston, VP and General Manager, as we review strategic alternatives for these two businesses. As we move forward, we expect there will be growth opportunities for VMware employees within the larger combined company.

Persons: Hock Tan, Tan, CRN, Raghu Raghuram, Krish Prasad, Purnima Padmanabhan, Sanjay Uppal, Umesh Mahajan, Thoma, Sumit Dhawan, •, Shankar Iyer, Jason Rolleston, Mike Gannon, • Regan McGrath, Luigi Freguia, • Sylvain Cazard, Cynthia Loyd, Ricky Cooper, Joan Stone, Mark Nagle, • Bryan Prosek Organizations: Broadcom, VMware, Business, VMware Cloud Foundation, CA Technologies, Thoma Bravo, Symantec, Cyber Security Services, Accenture, HCL Technologies, Broadcom Employees, •, Security, Strategic, Corporate, Asia Pacific, Services

☆ O femeie de 82 de ani îl va însoți pe Jeff Bezos în spațiu: Voi iubi fiecare secundă
▼ + stars: | 2021-07-02 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: +2 min

O femeie de 82 de ani, Wally Funk, îl va însoţi pe Jeff Bezos în spaţiu la bordul unui zbor al companiei sale Blue Origin, pe 20 iulie, devenind cea mai vârstnică persoană care călătoreşte în spaţiu, a anunţat joi compania, potrivit AFP, citează digi24.ro. „Mi-au spus că am făcut treaba mai bine şi mai repede decât oricare dintre bărbaţi”, a declarat Wally Funk într-un videoclip postat pe contul de Instagram al lui Jeff Bezos la momentul anunţului. „Nimeni nu a aşteptat atât de mult”, a scris Jeff Bezos în postarea sa. Wally Funk a devenit prima femeie inspector a agenţiei americane de aviaţie, FAA. Apoi capsula va începe o cădere liberă pentru a reveni pe Pământ şi va fi încetinită de trei paraşute mari şi de retrorachete înainte de a ateriza într-un deşert din vestul Texasului.

Persons: Wally Funk, Jeff, ro . Funk, Mark Bezos, Shepard Organizations: Blue, NASA, Agerpres Locations: aviaţie, Texasului

☆ Nu e timp de murit? Nu e timp de murit?
▼ + stars: | 2021-04-09 | by ( ) www.zdg.md time to read: +4 min

La început de săptămână, luni, am irosit jumătate de zi, comunicând cu instituțiile statului despre un subiect trist, chiar tragic, care se întâmplase în ajun – decesul în urma COVID al unei colege. Luni, la primele ore ale dimineții, contactam Agenția Națională pentru Sănătate Publică, alternativ, Linia Verde și Telefonul de Încredere. Probabil ei trebuie să cunoască mai multe”, este singura recomandare a reprezentanților instituțiilor statului, instituții care au declarat starea de urgență și care sunt responsabile de gestionarea ei. Cu toată insistența, luni, până la amiază, nu am reușit să aflu nimic de la instituțiile statului, responsabile de gestionarea pandemiei și a stării de urgență. Ieri, la Curtea Constituțională a fost depusă o contestație împotriva instituirii stării de urgență pe o perioadă de 60 de zile.

Persons: interimar, Țîcu Organizations: Agenția Națională, Agenția, Curtea Constituțională Locations: Moldova, Chișinău

☆ Gabi Firea iese la atac: cu cât a scăzut PNL în câteva zile
▼ + stars: | 2020-11-11 | by ( Doina Crainic | Octavian Racu | ) ro.sputnik.md time to read: +2 min

Fostul primar al Capitalei, Gabriela Firea, a declarat astăzi că PNL a scăzut 10 procente numai în ultimele zile și a arătat că PSD a depus un amendament pentru ca și cei carantinați să poată vota. Nu o spunem noi, ci populația, e un guvern corupt și incompetent”, a spus Gabriela Firea. „Dacă noi spunem că ne raportăm la țări europene (Germania, Franța, Elveția și altele) trebuie să ne raportăm și în privința educației și a altor domenii. În țările europene nu s-a recurs imediat la închideri, cum a fost la noi, ci au venit mai întâi cu un set de măsuri. La unele companii nu poți să închizi și să lucrezi de acasă”, a precizat Gabriela Firea.

Persons: Gabriela Firea, Firea, Gabriela Firea . Ea Organizations: PNL, PSD, Sputnik Locations: Capitalei, BUCUREȘTI, Senat, Germania, Franța, Elveția, România

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