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Glossier just laid off one-third of its corporate employees, mostly in tech

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“[W]e are shifting our technology strategy to leverage external partners for parts of our platform that we’re currently maintaining internally,” Weiss wrote in the email announcing the layoffs to staff. The tech team layoffs are notable for a beauty retailer that has often described itself as a technology company.

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MediaLab acquires messaging app Kik, expanding its app portfolio

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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 a post on Kik’s blog on Friday the MediaLab said that it has “finalized an agreement” to acquire Kik Messenger.