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American Companies Take An Anti-Racism Stand En Masse Amid Countrywide Riots And Protests In The US

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As the USA flares up in nationwide protests and riots in response to the death of George Lloyd last week at the hands of a white police officer in an alleged act of racism, American companies are making their stand clear online.

As individuals across social media stage virtual protests, walkouts, and change their profile images to all black in an event being called the “BlackTuesday”, corporate America too is doing its bit. In an unprecedented show of solidarity with the Black community against a case of systemic racism in the country, brands across sizes and industries have been taking a stand against racism and showing their support for the Black Lives Matter movement across their social media and other communication channels.

Facebook, Twitter And Google Slam Trump Order That Seeks To Prevent Them From Restricting RW Voices

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In a first of such moves by a politician, the US president Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order that decrees a number of changes in how major social media platforms – mainly Twitter, Facebook and Youtube police and restrict certain content posted on their platforms.

The official order that was shared by Trump himself on Twitter seeks to hold tech companies responsible for being publishers, and limit their role in censoring content – especially of a political nature that goes against their own political leanings.

Over 20,000 Employees Fired: A List Of All CoVid19 Startup Layoffs In India So Far

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By now the huge economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic is apparent. With extended lockdowns prevalent around the world and economies being almost shut for 3 months since March now, companies have faced a loss of revenue, burned their cash on fixed costs and employees, and have had to resort to all means of cost-cutting. One of the biggest pitfalls of these cost-cutting measures has been instituting large-scale layoffs. While larger companies in India like Reliance, Infosys, TCS, ITC etc. have instituted paycuts across the aboard and levied a hiring freeze, India’s vaunted startups have had to take rather extreme measures to conserve capital and stretch their VC dollars. While a few have tried reimagining their core business and pivoted to offer newer product market fits for a Covid19 ravaged world, they have also had to let go large chunks of their workforce to cut costs. News of layoffs across startups has been coming in thick and fast. Here’s a list of all the startups that have had publicly announced layoffs so far. This list will be updated in real time as and when we get hold of them.

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People Are Missing Office So Spotify Has Launched A Track That Replicates The Sound Of An Office

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While the debates between perks of going to an office vs working from home go on, a large section of people are indeed missing their office, having been away from it for months now. And Spotify is here to fix that. The Swedish music streaming giant has launched a ‘soundtrack’ that seeks to replicate the ambient and usual noises one hears while working in an office.