Many Google employees were having a normal day on Jan. 20 before their lives were turned upside-down. Some workers had gotten their jobs at the tech giant after years of dreaming about it, and others had been there for over a decade. Then suddenly that morning Google’s parent, Alphabet, announced that it was cutting 12,000 jobs. In doing so, it joined a long list of tech companies that have eliminated scores of employees in recent months. An outpouring followed on social media, including… Source link
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To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. Beep boop, here we go again with another exciting week in tech. Next week is Disrupt, so the TechCrunch Slack watercooler is full of sartorial advice, much to our surprise and confusion. Oh, and Haje has written more than 20 Pitch Deck Teardowns over on TC+ — and he’s running low on decks to review. Surely he hasn’t scared everyone away quite yet?
Read More »Yahoo Mail down: Users fume as many left unable to check their emails
If you’re trying and failing to access Yahoo! Mail this morning you are definitely not alone. The hugely popular messaging service appears to be having some major issues with hundreds of reports that its users can’t read, reply, send or open new emails. However, one of the biggest problems appears to be users seeing their full inbox but then getting an error that reads “We couldn’t load this message,” when they try and check an individual email. The gremlins first appeared at around 9.30am… Source link
Read More »Former Missouri Fiji pledge Danny Santulli is back home but ‘blind’ and ‘unable to walk,’ attorney says
Former University of Missouri Fiji pledge Daniel Santulli is back in the care of his parents, but his condition hasn’t improved, the family’s attorney said Monday. Danny Santulli is back in his parents’ home in Minnesota after several months in a rehabilitation hospital in Colorado, said attorney David Bianchi. Santulli is in the care of his parents, but his condition hasn’t changed, Bianchi said. “He has massive brain damage,” Bianchi said. “He’s blind. He’s unable to walk or… Source link
Read More »Alibaba’s Freshippo adds more couriers, still unable to meet Shanghai demand
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Alibaba’s supermarket chain Freshippo said on Sunday it was adding more couriers to meet high demand in Shanghai but this was not yet catching up with the rising needs of locked-down residents as the city battles a surge in COVID-19 cases. Shen Li, a vice president at Alibaba Group’s Freshippo, told reporters on Sunday that while the company’s delivery capacity had recovered to about 60-70% of pre-outbreak levels as more couriers were allowed back on the roads, many… Source link
Read More »Elizabeth Holmes jury says it’s unable to reach unanimous verdict on 3 counts
A federal jury has said it has failed to reach a unanimous verdict on three of 11 counts in the criminal case against Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes, who was accused of defrauding patients and investors in a blood-testing startup once valued at $9 billion. During a proceeding Monday where Holmes was present, both her attorneys and prosecutors agreed that Judge Edward Davila could bring in jurors so he could read a jury instruction encouraging deadlocked jurors to continue… Source link
Read More »Jeremy Lin unable to sign with Warriors
Jeremy Lin will not be returning to the Bay area as hoped. The free-agent guard was unable to sign with the Golden State Warriors because he couldn’t get the necessary clearance by the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA), ESPN’s Marc Spears reported. Lin doesn’t get clearance to sign with Warriors Jeremy Lin won’t be signing with the Warriors after failing to get proper clearance. (VCG/VCG via Getty Images) Lin and the Warriors were reportedly finalizing an Exhibit 10 deal on Friday to… Source link
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