Spotify Axes 17% Of Workforce In Third Round Of Layoffs This Year

The music streaming service hopes the cuts, which amount to about 1,500 people, will help it become profitable.

The music streaming service hopes the cuts, which amount to about 1,500 people, will help it become profitable.
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Morgan Stanley is close to an agreement to pay $200 million to $300 million to settle a US investigation into its employees’ handling of big stock sales, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday. The penalty, expected to be announced in the coming days, will be divided between the Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission, the report said, citing people with knowledge of…
TikTok’s parent company ByteDance is further scaling back its ambitions in the gaming industry and is in talks to sell game titles to several prospective buyers. Chinese media LatePost reported Monday that ByteDance’s gaming unit Nuverse is negotiating to sell games to Tencent. A Bytedance spokesperson told The Wall Street Journal Tuesday that negotiations with…
Elon Musk ripped Boeing over a filing that appeared to show the aeronautical giant two years ago began using diversity, equity and inclusion goals as incentives for executive compensation after previously focusing solely on safety and quality controls. “Do you want to fly in an airplane where they prioritized DEI hiring over your safety? That…
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Shares of Zee Entertainment Enterprises fell sharply Tuesday after news reports that Japan’s Sony Group may call off a merger of its India operations with the former. Zee Entertainment shares fell as much as 13% and were last down 6.7% at 258.75 Indian rupees ($3.12). Copyright ©2024 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved….