{"id":855091,"date":"2024-09-13T08:39:35","date_gmt":"2024-09-13T03:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=855091"},"modified":"2024-09-13T08:44:46","modified_gmt":"2024-09-13T03:14:46","slug":"microsoft-to-cut-650-jobs-from-its-xbox-unit-in-third-layoff-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/09\/13\/microsoft-to-cut-650-jobs-from-its-xbox-unit-in-third-layoff-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft to cut 650 jobs from its Xbox unit in third layoff this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft Corp. said it is cutting 650 jobs in its Xbox unit, the third such layoffs this year as the company tries to rein in costs and integrate its massive $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard Inc. <\/p>\n<p>The roles to be eliminated are in \u201cmostly corporate and supporting functions,\u201d according to a memo sent to staff by Xbox chief Phil Spencer on Thursday. \u201cNo games, devices or experiences are being cancelled and no studios are being closed as part of these adjustments today.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft Corp. said it is cutting 650 jobs in its Xbox unit, the third such layoffs this year as the company tries to rein in costs and integrate its massive $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard Inc. The roles to be eliminated are in \u201cmostly corporate and supporting functions,\u201d according to a memo sent to staff by Xbox chief Phil Spencer on Thursday. \u201cNo games, devices or experiences are being cancelled and no studios are being closed as part of these adjustments today.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,34,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-855091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-it-2-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=855091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=855091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=855091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=855091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}