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Yellen rules out bailout for Silicon Valley Bank: "We're not going to do that again" (www.cbsnews.com)
submitted 2 years ago by JackFromWisconsin@midwest.social to c/business@midwest.social
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Silicon Valley Bank fails, fueling worry about risk to broader financial market (www.washingtonpost.com)
submitted 2 years ago by seahorse@midwest.social to c/business@midwest.social
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Silicon Valley Bank fails, fueling worry about risk to broader financial market (www.washingtonpost.com)
submitted 2 years ago by seahorse@midwest.social to c/business@midwest.social
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America’s $52 Billion Plan to Make Chips at Home Faces a Labor Shortage (www.bloomberg.com)
submitted 2 years ago by JackFromWisconsin@midwest.social to c/business@midwest.social
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Meta Plans Thousands More Layoffs as Soon as This Week (www.bloomberg.com)
submitted 2 years ago by altair222@beehaw.org to c/business@midwest.social
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Two Office Landlords Defaulting May Be Just the Beginning, With at least $92 billion of office mortgages maturing this year, landlords are under increasing pressure. (www.bloomberg.com)
submitted 2 years ago by JackFromWisconsin@midwest.social to c/business@midwest.social
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Facebook and Google are handing over user data to help police prosecute abortion seekers (www.businessinsider.com)
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Boss Transforms Office Into a “Neighborhood” Where Each Employee Works Out of a Tiny Home (mymodernmet.com)
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Which company makes every microwave? (youtube.com)
submitted 2 years ago by altair222@beehaw.org to c/business@midwest.social
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MFW Microwave business is a drop-shipping business

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IPhone Maker Plans $700 Million India Plant in Shift From China (www.bloomberg.com)
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Eli Lilly to cut insulin prices up to 70% amid federal pressure to lower costs (www.usatoday.com)
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Salesforce has reportedly been paying Matthew McConaughey $10 million a year to act as a 'creative adviser' despite laying off 8,000 employees last month (www.businessinsider.com)
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I'm a Stanford professor who's studied organizational behavior for decades. The widespread layoffs in tech are more because of copycat behavior than necessary cost-cutting. (www.businessinsider.com)
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‘Old-school union busting’: how US corporations are quashing the new wave of organizing (www.theguardian.com)
submitted 2 years ago by JackFromWisconsin@midwest.social to c/business@midwest.social
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Twitter Blue head Esther Crawford is out at Twitter (www.theverge.com)
submitted 2 years ago by altair222@beehaw.org to c/business@midwest.social
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Layoffs, Layoffs, Layoffs

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Dow said it was recycling our shoes. We found them in Indonesia (www.reuters.com)
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Fines TitleMax $15 Million for Predatory Lending (www.propublica.org)
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Justice Department Says Google Destroyed Evidence Related to Antitrust Lawsuit (www.wsj.com)
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U.S. preparing antitrust suit to block Adobe plan to buy Figma (www.reuters.com)
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cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/463756

Not sad to hear this. Checkout penpot as a possible replacement.

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Ericsson to lay off 8,500 employees -memo (www.reuters.com)
submitted 2 years ago by altair222@beehaw.org to c/business@midwest.social
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FedEx pilot union inches closer to strike with unanimous approval for authorization vote (www.cnbc.com)
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New Study Finds Offering Paid Sick Leave is Good for U.S. Business (www.fau.edu)
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With the exception of a temporary federal law providing paid sick leave to certain employees between March and December 2020, the United States remains one of the few developed countries without federal paid sick leave protection for workers.