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MSFT Plans First Voluntary Buyout In 51-Year History; Gates Foundation To Slash 20% Of Staff
MSFT Plans First Voluntary Buyout In 51-Year History; Gates Foundation To Slash 20% Of Staff
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First CNBC reports MSFT's first-ever Voluntary Buyout in 51-Year Company History,
Then a report by BBG on Meta planning 10% Workforce Cut, All Within Hours
To note: Reuters First reported Meta's 10% cut late last week (report)
Meta Layoffs
First, Microsoft unveiled a voluntary buyout program, a move that could incentivize thousands of employees to leave.
Now, Meta Platforms has reportedly followed with plans to cut 10% of its workforce. Taken together, today's back-to-back announcements suggest that as Big Tech continues...
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CENTCOM reportedly preparing for "short wave of strikes" on Iran in order to potentially break the Hormuz impasse & force Tehran back to the negotiating table. Trump rejects Iran proposal as it won't give up nuclear program.
Trump recently met this week with oil and gas executives at the White House to address energy fallout, and as oil pushes higher: Axios.
Trump warns Iran to "get their act together" and to "get smart" - and for...
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Trump Says US Sent Arms to Iranian Group to Use Against Government
President Donald Trump told reporters that the US transferred weapons to an Iranian group. The White House intended for the arms to help overthrow the government in Tehran. However, Trump claims the group kept the weapons for themselves. “We sent some guns. A lot of guns. They were supposed to go to the [Iranian] people […]
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Half Of Vienna Secondary School Students Are Now Muslim As Cultural Tensions Grow In Classrooms
Half Of Vienna Secondary School Students Are Now Muslim As Cultural Tensions Grow In Classrooms
Authored by Thomas Brooke via Remix news,
Almost half of students in Vienna’s public middle schools are now Muslim, according to new figures from the Vienna Education Directorate, marking the latest sign of a rapid demographic and cultural shift inside the Austrian capital’s classrooms.
The data, cited by Heute, shows that Muslim students account for 49.4 percent of children in Vienna’s public middle schools — just short of an absolute majority. Across the city’s public compulsory schools more...
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