adding to the freeze it put a few weeks earlier on its retail division. But the layoffs weren't far off. Employees who work in different units, including voice assistant Alexa and cloud gaming platform Amazon Luna, said they were let go on Tuesday, according to ...
It was only a few weeks ago when I gave cloud gaming an earnest shot. For a full week, I resolved toreplace my Xbox with a Samsung smart TVequipped with Xbox Game Pass. I’d only stream my Xbox games through the cloud during the time, even playing the entirety ofStill Wakes the Dee...
The job cuts announced Monday will hit profitable areas for the company including its cloud computing unit AWS and its burgeoning advertising business. Twitch, the gaming platform Amazon owns, will also see some layoffs as well as Amazon's PXT organizations, which handle human resources and ot...
While the November layoffs mostly impacted Amazon staffers in its retail, devices, recruiting, and human resources units, this latest round will mostly affect the company’s cloud computing, advertising, human resources, and Twitch departments. In the memo, which Amazon latershared on its website,...
The job cuts announced Monday will hit profitable areas for the company including its cloud computing unit AWS and its burgeoning advertising business. Twitch, the gaming platform Amazon owns, will also see some layoffs as well as Amazon’s PXT organizations, which handle human resources and other...
There have been all kinds of reports about layoffs in tech companies including Amazon. I believe Luna and Twitch were impacted. Meanwhile, Google shut down Stadia. Given Amazon Games had some early struggles, how has your unit been impacted? Are you continuing to grow or are you retrenching?
While Amazon has failed to meet expected targets, undergoing significant cost cutting and layoffs, its brand has grown in recent years to become a dominant players across multiple sectors. These include online retail, cloud computing, voice/home automation and digital streaming. ...
The financial performance and strategic efforts of Amazon have received strong feedback from investors. The company’s cost-cutting initiatives, which have included recent layoffs of over 27,000 workers, have been positively welcomed, which has helped its stock price rise. Shares of Amazon increased...
Cloud gaming: Google Stadia and Microsoft xCloud explained Windows will make it a lot easier for developers to simply move their existing games to Amazon’s Luna service, with full Nvidia driver support. That should be a lot less work than moving games to Stadia and its Linux servers. That...
A look at Sports Illustrated's decline, amid C-suite upheaval, several rounds of layoffs, low editorial staff morale, and revelations about AI-generated content Victoria Arancio / ABC News: A helicopter pilot and a photographer for TV station WPVI in Philadelphia died on December 19, following...