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Shopee rolls out spending caps for all employees, including economy-only flights and $30 meals, as the company braces for layoffs and financial trouble
Ecommerce giant Shopee is bracing for financial trouble. NurPhoto / Contributor / Getty images On September 15, Shopee CEO Forrest Li told employees the company would be restricting expense policies. Layoff conversations began September 19, affecting a low-single-digit percentage of Shopee employees. Shopee parent Sea Limited raised $ 6 billion in 2021, but now faces […]
The Woman Who Became a Company Has Lessons for a Post-Roe World
Jennifer Lyn Morone became a corporation in hopes of protecting her data privacy. Her experience shows the downfalls of treating data like property. https://media.wired.com/photos/63192414977791160bfcd0ac/master/pass/woman-became-company.jpg
Amazon CEO says the company has no plans to make its corporate employees return to the office
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said most Amazon corporate employees are currently on a hybrid work schedule. Jerod Harris/Getty Images for Vox Media Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said the company isn't planning to force employees back to the office. He noted that most of Amazon's corporate workers are already on a hybrid scheme. Jassy said the […]
Canadian Blood Services signs agreement with private company to boost national plasma supply
Canadian Blood Services is turning to a private company to help boost Canada’s plasma supply in a new agreement announced Wednesday.
CVS is buying home-healthcare company Signify Health for $8 billion in major healthcare tie-up
"We can't be in primary care without M&A. We've been very clear about that," CVS CEO Karen Lynch told analysts last month. Shannon Stapleton/File Photo/Reuters CVS said Monday that it is acquiring home-healthcare company Signify Health for $ 8 billion. The drugstore giant previously said it would expand its healthcare services by the end of […]
An LA startup is creating remote tiny cabin sites with offices for startups and company retreats — see inside the $400 a night ‘micro cabins’
Jared Chambers, Find Sanctuary Los Angeles startup Find Sanctuary will build sites of "micro-cabins" with offices. The hospitality company is targeting vacationers, C-suite team off-sites, and remote-first companies. Find Sanctuary will open its first site of 40 cabins two hours from Los Angeles in 2023. Digital detox retreats are so last year. Jared Chambers, Find […]
Peter Mark Richman, of Dynasty and Three’s Company, Dead at 93
Veteran character actor Peter Mark Richman, whose myriad TV credits included Dynasty, Three’s Company and Sunset Beach, died on Thursday of natural causes. He was 93. Born in Philadelphia and a graduate of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science, Richman first pursued acting on the New York stage as a member of the Actors […]
An Email Marketing Company Left 809 Million Records Exposed Online
A exposed database belonging to Verifications.io contained both personal and business information, including 763 million unique email addresses. https://media.wired.com/photos/5c7edaf746e19a01ab72c022/master/pass/Email-Marketing-Hackers.png
Amazon spends company record on U.S. lobbying in 2018
Amazon spent $ 14.19 million on lobbying the U.S. government in 2018, a move consistent with other technology companies last year.Read More