Sources: Apple’s VP of online retail Anna Matthiasson is leaving the company, to be replaced by Karen Rasmussen; CIO Mary Demby is retiring after three decades (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple told unionized store staff in Maryland that they won’t get its new benefits and would need to negotiate via a collective bargaining arrangement  —  Apple Inc. is withholding its latest employee benefits from staff who work at its sole unionized retail store …

Karen Weise / New York Times:
In an email to recruiters, Amazon says it is freezing most corporate hiring in its retail business for the rest of 2022; AWS is not affected by the freeze  —  It is the latest tech company to pump the brakes on hiring amid growing economic concerns.  —  Amazon is freezing corporate hiring …

Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch:
All three founders of online trading service Pipe are stepping down as the company looks for a “veteran” CEO; Pipe raised $250M at a $2B valuation in May 2021  —  Co-founder Harry Hurst says, ‘We’re 0-1 builders, not at-scale operators.’  —  The three co-founders …

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Apple confirms its head of hardware design Evans Hankey is leaving, three years after replacing Jony Ive; sources: Hankey will stay for six more months  —  Apple Inc.’s head of hardware design, Evans Hankey, is leaving the iPhone maker three years after taking the role …

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Apple VP of Procurement Tony Blevins is leaving, sources say after joking in a viral, September 5 TikTok video that he fondles “big-breasted women” for a living  —  One of Apple Inc.’s most senior executives is leaving after he turned up in a viral video on TikTok making …

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Apple expands the pricing options for subscription app developers by 700 price points, from $0.29 to $10K, the top 100 of which are available only upon request  —  Apple Inc. is changing the pricing structure for the App Store to let developers charge a wider range of amounts …