Incomplete list of U.S. internet/high-tech/communications job destruction and chicanery announcements in November 2018:
WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification
Facebook documents seized by British empire
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CALIFORNIA: Tobi.com issued a shutdown WARN for its ops in San Mateo County, 62 jobs gone by the end of January 2019. SMK-LINK Electronics issued a shutdown WARN for its ops in Camarillo. ‘Truth in Data’ company Merkle Group issued a layoff WARN for ops in Burbank, 82 jobs gone by the end of the year. Communication tech company Polycom suddenly shutdown its operations in Tracy. Cisco Systems suddenly laid off 462 people in San Jose and Milpitas! Universal Electronics issued a layoff WARN, 38 jobs in Santa Ana gone in February 2019. Source Broadband Services eliminating 44 jobs right after xmas. Warner Music finally told state unemployment officials that it killed 58 jobs, back in July. Madhouse Entertainment shutting down its Los Angeles office right after xmas.
Taxpayer funded Amtrak to close Riverside call center, eliminating 550 jobs!
New tech start-up Moogsoft lays off 30 people
Broadcom eliminating 2-thousand jobs as part of its take-over of CA Technologies!
Defy Media Shuts Down (90 jobs gone according to WARN)
Disney Digital Network Hit With a New Round of Layoffs
Facebook claims outage was the result of a ‘routine test’
Facebook admits years-old messages are randomly coming back
Elon Musk scraps plans for Los Angeles tunnel after lawsuit settlement
Tesla was near death during Model 3 ramp-up
Tesla’s ‘Delivery Logistics Hell’
FLORIDA: Tampa Bay Times cuts more jobs
Global security and detection firm L3 to lay off 70 workers
Duke Field, USAF video attempts to explain Synthetic Expeditionary Communication Training (SECT):
HAWAII: Commercial printer Hagadone Hawaii blames New tariffs, rising costs for layoffs of 93 employees
IDAHO: Ivanka Trump gets a first-hand look at Boise elementary school’s tech partnership with Apple
Tech. co. with Boise office sold to bankrupt radio firm
Why this Idaho chipmaker is suddenly at the center of the US-China trade war
IOWA: Varsity Theatre closing after 80 years of business
MARYLAND: The state’s Army National Guard 110th Information Operations Battalion celebrated 10 years of operations: “This unit is on the cusp of the U.S. Army’s movement to a new information warfare strategy concept…..our adversaries attack us within the information domain every day.”-Lieutenant Colonel Kristine L. Henry, 110th Bn commander
MINNESOTA: Thomson Reuters suddenly laid off 140 people in Eagan!
Downtown Minneapolis newspaper closing after 48 years
NEVADA: Tesla will live and die by the Gigafactory
NEW JERSEY: CA Technologies issued a WARN, 54 people in Ewing jobless by January 2019.
NEW YORK: Mic Network shutdown its NYC ops, 120 jobs suddenly gone due to loss of digital publishing contract (according to official WARN)! Broadcom issued a mass layoff WARN for ops in Islandia and NYC, at least 280 employees affected! Without warning low priced tablet maker Bak shutdown ops in Buffalo, 78 jobs suddenly gone according to the WARN, even the website is offline. The founders of the company wanted to prove it was possible to make profits off of low priced tablet computers, they failed.
Glamour to Cease Publishing Regular Print Mag in Condé Nast’s Latest Digital Shift
Vice Media is cutting its staff by up to 15% amid missed revenue and a traffic slump
3-year-old Roomi lays off more than half of its workforce after start-up funding falls through
Thomson Reuters closing office in Rochester
360i Goes Through Round of Layoffs Across Multiple Departments
NORTH CAROLINA: Cisco’s large Research Triangle Park campus braces for layoffs
OHIO: Motel operator closing Clintonville call center, laying off 150!
OREGON: Ergontron issued a shutdown WARN for its office in Tualatin, 103 jobs gone by March 2019!
PENNSYLVANIA: Dash Solutions offers to rescue data customers of bankrupt CloudMine
WASHINGTON: Tacoma Tribune News issued a layoff WARN, 67 jobs gone by March 2019.
crypto-currency pioneer GigaWatt now chapter 11 bankrupt busted
Microsoft Accidentally Downgrades Windows 10 Pro
Microsoft’s Office 365 MFA security crashes for second time
The Washington Air National Guard’s 262nd Cyberspace Operations Squadron was tasked with providing cyber security for the state’s electronic voting system during the November elections.
Washington DC: Facebook’s latest scandal has Washington’s full attention
WEST VIRGINIA: State Army National Guard video explaining their new ‘cyber center’:
U.S. Tech/Communications breakdown, October 2018: “EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY”