Incomplete list of U.S. internet/high-tech/communications job destruction and chicanery announcements in October 2018:
WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification
Data Breach Report: October 2018 – Nehemiah Security
CALIFORNIA: Aerojet Rocketdyne issued a layoff WARN, 120 jobs gone by the end of November! Alpine Electronics issued layoff WARNs, 128 jobs gone by the end of March 2019! Online entertainment software maker NC Interactive revealed it suddenly laid off 52 people in September. Entertainment company Super Deluxe issued a shutdown WARN for its Los Angeles ops, 103 jobs gone a week before xmas! Advertising company Crispin Porter Bogusky issued a shutdown WARN for its Santa Monica office, 13 jobs gone by the end of December. DigiCert suddenly laid off 73 people in Mountain View. Symantec continues eliminating jobs, this time 19 people jobless before xmas. Also in Mountain View, Veritas Technologies revealed it killed 121 jobs back in April! Graystone Public Affairs issued shutdown WARNs for its Corona and Torrance locations, 135 jobs gone by November! British empire United Kingdom owned semiconductor maker ARM Inc suddenly laid off 70 people in San Jose. And San Jose based semiconductor maker Cavium issued multiple layoff WARNs, 73 jobs across California gone by the New Year. Western Digital Technology eliminating 117 jobs in Irvine and San Jose, by November! Marvell Semiconductor eliminating 11 jobs by the New Year. Raytheon issued a shutdown WARN for its Los Angeles ops, 21 jobs gone by the New Year. SMK-LINK Electronics issued a shutdown WARN for its Camarillo office, 17 jobs gone by the end of December.
Disney-Backed VR Startup Jaunt Lays Off Significant Portion of Staff
HCL Technologies eliminated 85 jobs with its Urban Fulfillment Services
United Technologies eliminating 3-hundred jobs!
San Rafael based video game maker Telltale suddenly laid off all remaining employees
Los Angeles based electric car maker you never heard of Faraday Future suddenly eliminated jobs and is slashing wages, “Effective immediately”
Palo Alto based Essential Products eliminated at least 30% of jobs
The last video rental store in SLO is closing
Elon Musk says $40m tweet was ‘worth it’ after being fined
Google to shut down Google+ after failing to disclose user data leak
Facebook October 2018 security breach: Everything you need to know
Worried Your Facebook Account Has Been Cloned?
Facebook purged over 800 U.S. accounts
COLORADO: Digital First Media laying off 107 at Colorado Springs
CONNECTICUT: Japan owned Konica Minolta Business Solutions halting ops in Windsor, 219 jobs gone the week before xmas!
FLORIDA: L3 Tech.-Security & Detection issued WARN, 67 jobs gone by May 2019. Raytheon issued WARN, 52 jobs gone by the end of December. Reconfigurable technology company Raydon suddenly laid off 50 people.
Shopping networks HSN and QVC merging, killing at least 350 jobs!
Taxpayer funded military VR company Raydon Corporation suddenly laid off 50 people
Comcast cuts more workers in Sarasota
ILLINOIS: ServiCom closes call center and lays off employees
MASSACHUSETTS: UMass Memorial Health Care lays off 17 InfoTech workers
Rethink Robotics re-thought it’s plans and suddenly shutdown
MICHIGAN: The Michigan Cyber Range hosted an international cyber security event in which National Guard units from seven U.S. states took part, along with military units of seven countries, which included playing the part of ‘cyber threats’ (emulating threats).
MINNESOTA: Teleperfomance’s debt collection arm AllianceOne issued a WARN, 75 jobs gone after xmas. Magnetic read/write head maker Hutchinson Technology suddenly laid off 1-hundred people! Software company Maximum Solutions suddenly laid off five people.
NEW JERSEY: Germany owned imaging tech maker Agfa issued a WARN, 125 jobs gone the day after xmas! ‘Big Data’ manager Solix issued a WARN, 149 jobs gone after xmas!
NEW YORK: HSN issued shutdown WARN for its Ingenious Designs ops in Ronkonkoma, 66 jobs gone by February 2019. Federated Payment Systems issued a layoff WARN, at least 47 jobs gone in January 2019. CDS NFL Event issued a shutdown WARN, 91 jobs gone between now and December.
Female focused Refinery29 suddenly laid off 40 people
MACOM Technology Solutions issued a WARN, as many as 56 jobs lost
OHIO: Ohio National Guard and the U.S. Coast Guard Research and Development Center signed a joint memorandum of understanding (MOU) to work together on cyber engagements: “This new partnership with the U.S. Coast Guard Research and Development Center will be incredibly beneficial to our Citizen-Soldiers and -Airmen. They will be able to exchange ideas and technical expertise with their Coast Guard colleagues on projects and initiatives such as cybersecurity exercises and workforce development.”-Major General Mark E. Bartman, Ohio National Guard
“The USCG Research and Development Center has worked with many National Guard components since our establishment in 1972. This MOU takes that relationship to the next level. Maritime Cyber Security is a critical facet of our research….”-Captain Greg Rothrock, U.S. Coast Guard
OKLAHOMA: Official ‘October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month’ video in which Altus Air Force Base personnel state that everybody must join the fight:
OREGON: struggling Oregon Shakespeare Festival kills more jobs, still blaming wildfires
PENNSYLVANIA: QCV Fulfillment Center closing its doors in Lancaster County
TENNESSEE: Fountainhead College of Technology shuts down
VIRGINIA: Ironically, online based job service Snagajob laid off 15 people
Washington DC: National Geographic Hit With New Round of Layoffs
U.S. Tech/Communications breakdown, September 2018: “INSURMOUNTABLE CHALLENGES”