{"id":855410,"date":"2024-09-13T10:13:42","date_gmt":"2024-09-13T04:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=855410"},"modified":"2024-09-13T10:13:42","modified_gmt":"2024-09-13T04:43:42","slug":"tech-layoffs-microsoft-cuts-650-jobs-in-xbox-division-ceo-phil-spencer-says-i-know-that-it-is-difficult","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/09\/13\/tech-layoffs-microsoft-cuts-650-jobs-in-xbox-division-ceo-phil-spencer-says-i-know-that-it-is-difficult\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech layoffs: Microsoft cuts 650 jobs in Xbox division, CEO Phil Spencer says, \u201cI know that it is difficult\u2026.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft announced on Thursday that it will lay off approximately 650 employees in its gaming division, primarily affecting corporate and support functions. This move comes as part of the company&#8217;s efforts to streamline operations following its $68.7 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft announced on Thursday that it will lay off approximately 650 employees in its gaming division, primarily affecting corporate and support functions. This move comes as part of the company&#8217;s efforts to streamline operations following its $68.7 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-855410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855410","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=855410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=855410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=855410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=855410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}