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Snap Cuts 120 Engineers, Citing Job Performance

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has laid off more than 120 engineers, according to reports based on internal emails being circulated from the company, saying it had cut its "lowest performing" engineers in recent job reviews. The layoffs represent around 10 percent of Snap's engineering team. Venice, California-based social networking app developer Snap Inc.

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LA's Faraday Future Faces New Financial Troubles

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Los Angeles-based electric car maker Faraday Future is facing new financial woes this morning, after the Chinese company which bailed out the company at the end of 2017 filed notice that it would seek to terminate a deal to invest a total of $2 billion into Faraday Future, reached last year. READ MORE>>.

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MediaLab acquires messaging app Kik, expanding its app portfolio

TechCrunch LA

It echoes the same message from Kik’s chief executive Tim Livingston last week when he rebuffed earlier reports that the company would shut down amid an ongoing battle with the U.S. In 2017, TechCrunch reported that Whisper underwent significant layoffs to stave off collapse and put the company on a path to profitability.

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Down bad

TechCrunch LA

Last week, we talked about layoffs and the Winklevoss rock gods. Things have already plunged so quickly at the signal of a recession that insiders fear a lengthy bear market could hit crypto far more brutally than expected — tearing tokens to lows far below the highs of the 2017 bull run. Welcome back to Chain Reaction. crash redux.

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Activision Blizzard To Slash Almost 800 Employees

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The move comes even as Activions Blizzard reported record net revenues in 2018 of $7.50 billion it had in revenues for 2017. Santa Monica-based game developer Activision Blizzard says it is slashing 8 percent of its staff, or nearly 800 employees, as a part of a restructuring effort at the company. bllion, up from the $7.02

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Bio Roundup: Theranos Cuts, Alnylam Stops, Nobel Eats Its Own & More

Xconomy

The funding could be as much as $100 million, and the first grants will be announced in 2017. —The Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER), whose drug-value analyses set the pharma industry’s teeth on edge , issued a new report on PD-1 inhibitors , part of the first wave of cancer immunotherapy drugs to be approved.