Sources: Crypto.com saw a 30%-40% reduction in headcount between June and August, with 2,000+ employees leaving the company, mostly due to layoffs (Asa Hiken/Ad Age)

Dave Lee / Financial Times:
Sources: Amazon begins layoffs with its Alexa, Kindle, and Halo hardware teams as part of the planned ~10K cuts, while investors anticipate broader downsizing  —  Staff working on Alexa, Kindle and Halo are the first to go, but investors want further cuts  —  Soon after Andy Jassy announced the …

Andrew E. Freedman / Tom’s Hardware:
Robert Hallock, AMD’s director of technical marketing and a public-facing figure on Reddit, Discord, YouTube, and others, is leaving the company after 12 years  —  The director of technical marketing is stepping down.  —  Robert Hallock, AMD’s director of technical marketing …

Jon Victor / The Information:
Source: between Q1 2019 and this fall, Alphabet’s Google Cloud, hardware unit, and YouTube have roughly doubled headcount, as the total employee count grew ~80%  —  Alphabet has doubled the headcount in its Google Cloud unit since early 2019, according to data obtained by The Information, outstripping Alphabet’s overall hiring growth.

Ashley Capoot / CNBC:
Jack Dorsey apologizes for growing Twitter “too quickly”, amid mass layoffs; Twitter’s headcount grew from ~2,000 to 7,500+ between June 2013 and December 2021  —  – Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey apologized Saturday for growing the company “too quickly,” a day after hundreds …

Annie Palmer / CNBC:
Internal documents: Amazon is offering voluntary buyouts to some employees as it looks for ways to cut its headcount beyond the massive layoffs already underway  —  – Amazon sent out “voluntary severance” offers to some employees this week as it looks for ways to rein in costs beyond the massive layoffs already announced.

Yaling Jiang / South China Morning Post:
Tiffany, Pomellato, and other luxury brands are creating and marketing NFTs to reach young potential consumers in China, despite the country banning NFT trading  —  As in the rest of the world, the metaverse is generating marketing buzz in China.  Unlike the rest of the world …